Religion and Planetary Climate Crisis
No religious production has ever happened on a planet with 425+ ppm CO2 such that rapid climate change is the evolutionary and biogeochemical carrier within which all future religious production will by definition occur. This Reprint investigates how various theological positions may be responding t...
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| description | No religious production has ever happened on a planet with 425+ ppm CO2 such that rapid climate change is the evolutionary and biogeochemical carrier within which all future religious production will by definition occur. This Reprint investigates how various theological positions may be responding to imminent climate regime shifts and how the sociology of religion may inform readers on how human groups are (or are not) using religion to organize around climate change. It explores how some religious actors are influencing cultural and social discourses around rapid climate change and dwelling practices within shifting bioecologies of place, including at the interfaces of technology and religion and of sustainability and religion, and how scholars should even conceive of the category of "religion" and how to teach to this category. Concepts of religious health within religious communities who may (or may not) be responding to the negative health impacts of runaway climate change and how religious ethics may (or may not) be changing to address the normative elements of runaway climate chaos are also investigated. Such scholarship occurs within the larger theme of the Reprint of Religion and Planetary Climate Crisis, where this crisis is understood to be biogeochemical, especially in geological time frames, but also political, economic, technological, ethical, and, therefore, biocultural. This opens up the need for humanities scholars to rapidly address rapid global heating in their research and teaching, and, thus, the requirement for the field of religious studies/theology to rapidly do the same. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1751112026-04-16T19:01:20Z Religion and Planetary Climate Crisis LeVasseur, Todd Jared Confucianism Holmes Rolston III Environmental philosophy Theology Planetary climate crisis Religion and environment Anticapitalism Capitalocentrism David Loy ESG Far-right extremism Culture war Christian nationalism Social movements Climate change Ecotheology Ecozoic Spirituality Cosmic Christ Laudato Si Laudate Deum Integral human development Passionists Human ecology Corals De-extinction Extinction Holobiont Religious imaginaries Genetic engineering Gene drives Ruth Gates George Church Stewart Brand Kevin Esvelt Easter journey Ecumene Ecological integration Evolution Pilgrimage Planetary boundaries Hope Ethics Sustainability Reintegration Disintegration Regeneration Academy Higher education Religion Resilience Relationality Ecology Christianity Anthropogenic climate change Laudato si’ Pope Francis Liberation theology Ecolinguistics The Catholic Church thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRM Christianity No religious production has ever happened on a planet with 425+ ppm CO2 such that rapid climate change is the evolutionary and biogeochemical carrier within which all future religious production will by definition occur. This Reprint investigates how various theological positions may be responding to imminent climate regime shifts and how the sociology of religion may inform readers on how human groups are (or are not) using religion to organize around climate change. It explores how some religious actors are influencing cultural and social discourses around rapid climate change and dwelling practices within shifting bioecologies of place, including at the interfaces of technology and religion and of sustainability and religion, and how scholars should even conceive of the category of "religion" and how to teach to this category. Concepts of religious health within religious communities who may (or may not) be responding to the negative health impacts of runaway climate change and how religious ethics may (or may not) be changing to address the normative elements of runaway climate chaos are also investigated. Such scholarship occurs within the larger theme of the Reprint of Religion and Planetary Climate Crisis, where this crisis is understood to be biogeochemical, especially in geological time frames, but also political, economic, technological, ethical, and, therefore, biocultural. This opens up the need for humanities scholars to rapidly address rapid global heating in their research and teaching, and, thus, the requirement for the field of religious studies/theology to rapidly do the same. 2026-04-16T19:01:17Z 2026-04-16T19:01:17Z 2025 book ONIX_20260416T142754_9783725853175_16 9783725853175 9783725853182 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/175111 eng application/octet-stream Attribution 4.0 International https://mdpi.com/books/ https://mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/12016 MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 10.3390/books978-3-7258-5318-2 10.3390/books978-3-7258-5318-2 46cabcaa-dd94-4bfe-87b4-55023c1b36d0 9783725853175 9783725853182 138 CH open access |
| spellingShingle | Confucianism Holmes Rolston III Environmental philosophy Theology Planetary climate crisis Religion and environment Anticapitalism Capitalocentrism David Loy ESG Far-right extremism Culture war Christian nationalism Social movements Climate change Ecotheology Ecozoic Spirituality Cosmic Christ Laudato Si Laudate Deum Integral human development Passionists Human ecology Corals De-extinction Extinction Holobiont Religious imaginaries Genetic engineering Gene drives Ruth Gates George Church Stewart Brand Kevin Esvelt Easter journey Ecumene Ecological integration Evolution Pilgrimage Planetary boundaries Hope Ethics Sustainability Reintegration Disintegration Regeneration Academy Higher education Religion Resilience Relationality Ecology Christianity Anthropogenic climate change Laudato si’ Pope Francis Liberation theology Ecolinguistics The Catholic Church thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRM Christianity Religion and Planetary Climate Crisis |
| title | Religion and Planetary Climate Crisis |
| title_full | Religion and Planetary Climate Crisis |
| title_fullStr | Religion and Planetary Climate Crisis |
| title_full_unstemmed | Religion and Planetary Climate Crisis |
| title_short | Religion and Planetary Climate Crisis |
| title_sort | religion and planetary climate crisis |
| topic | Confucianism Holmes Rolston III Environmental philosophy Theology Planetary climate crisis Religion and environment Anticapitalism Capitalocentrism David Loy ESG Far-right extremism Culture war Christian nationalism Social movements Climate change Ecotheology Ecozoic Spirituality Cosmic Christ Laudato Si Laudate Deum Integral human development Passionists Human ecology Corals De-extinction Extinction Holobiont Religious imaginaries Genetic engineering Gene drives Ruth Gates George Church Stewart Brand Kevin Esvelt Easter journey Ecumene Ecological integration Evolution Pilgrimage Planetary boundaries Hope Ethics Sustainability Reintegration Disintegration Regeneration Academy Higher education Religion Resilience Relationality Ecology Christianity Anthropogenic climate change Laudato si’ Pope Francis Liberation theology Ecolinguistics The Catholic Church thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRM Christianity |
| topic_facet | Confucianism Holmes Rolston III Environmental philosophy Theology Planetary climate crisis Religion and environment Anticapitalism Capitalocentrism David Loy ESG Far-right extremism Culture war Christian nationalism Social movements Climate change Ecotheology Ecozoic Spirituality Cosmic Christ Laudato Si Laudate Deum Integral human development Passionists Human ecology Corals De-extinction Extinction Holobiont Religious imaginaries Genetic engineering Gene drives Ruth Gates George Church Stewart Brand Kevin Esvelt Easter journey Ecumene Ecological integration Evolution Pilgrimage Planetary boundaries Hope Ethics Sustainability Reintegration Disintegration Regeneration Academy Higher education Religion Resilience Relationality Ecology Christianity Anthropogenic climate change Laudato si’ Pope Francis Liberation theology Ecolinguistics The Catholic Church thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRM Christianity |
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