"Now in its third edition, Grounding Religion explores relationships between the environment and religious beliefs and practices. Established scholars introduce students to the ways religion shapes and is shaped by human-earth relations, surveying a series of key issues and questions with particular attention to issues of environmental degradation, social justice, ritual practices, and religious worldviews. Case studies, discussion questions, and further readings enrich students' experience. This third edition features updated content, including revisions of every chapter and new material on religion and the environmental humanities, sexuality and queer studies, class, ability, privilege and power, environmental justice, extinction, biodiversity, and politics. An excellent text for undergraduates and graduates alike, it offers an expansive overview of the academic field of religion and ecology as it has emerged in the past fifty years and continues to develop today"--
The third edition of Grounding Religion includes revisions of every chapter and new material on religion and the environmental humanities, sexuality and queer studies, class, ability, privilege and power, environmental justice, extinction, biodiversity, and politics.
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- Notes on contributors -- Preface to the second edition -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Connecting religion and ecology in a context of environmental degradation -- The academic field of religion and ecology -- The methodologies of religion and ecology -- Format of the book -- PART I: Religion and ecology: defining the terms -- 1. Religion: what is it, who gets to decide, and why does it matter? -- Five definitions of "religion" -- Why defining religion matters -- Studying religion inside and out -- Conclusion -- References -- Further reading -- 2. Case study: religion and the twenty-first century North American anti-extraction movement -- Discussion questions -- Note -- References -- Further reading -- 3. Ecology: what is it, who gets to decide, and why does it matter? -- Five questions about ecology -- How should religion respond to ecology? -- Religion and ecology -- Conclusion -- References -- Further reading -- 4. Case study: religion and disaster: the Merapi volcano eruption -- Discussion questions -- References -- Further reading -- PART II: Mapping your location -- 5. Gender and queer studies -- Patriarchy: a brief history -- Feminist, ecofeminist, and queer challenges to patriarchy -- Religion, gender, and sexuality -- Nature is queer -- Challenging anthropocentrism with queer eyes -- Case study - the Radical Faeries: challenging human-human, human-earth relations -- Discussion questions -- Notes -- References -- Further reading -- 6. Race and ethnicity -- Introduction -- The nature-culture binary logic and its extension to race/ethnicity -- Rethinking race and racism -- Religious naturalism: conjoining ecology, race, and religion -- Religious naturalism and the racialization of nature
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