This interdisciplinary Handbook examines the relationship between environmental problem solving and religion, addressing how environmental planning often neglects the cultural influences and organizational resources of the world’s religions. It explores global faiths such as Islam and Buddhism, as well as Indigenous and emerging religions.
Expert contributors from a breadth of disciplines including anthropology, ecology, education and theology use the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a unifying framework to examine multiple facets of religious practice and expression. The Handbook explores key topics including conservation, education, leadership, ecojustice, social ethics, religion’s functions in civil society, and faith-based participation in resolving environmental conflicts. They advocate for future action and research in this field, emphasizing the importance of incorporating religion as a crucial component of environmental management and problem solving.
The Handbook on Religion and the Environment is an essential reference for students and academics in the fields of environmental studies, environmental science, religious studies, and political science. It is also an enlightening read for policymakers, religious leaders, ecologists, and professionals working in international development, and urban and environmental planning.
This interdisciplinary Handbook examines the relationship between environmental problem solving and religion, addressing how environmental planning often neglects the cultural influences and organizational resources of the world’s religions. It explores global faiths such as Islam and Buddhism, as well as Indigenous and emerging religions.
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In its remarkable assembly of 37 diverse voices from around the world, this book highlights the ecological heritage of religious texts, spiritual wisdom, and community practice, bringing its editors to conclude that most religious environmental contributions are in accord with the welfare of the greater society and Earths biosphere. -- Cal Dewitt, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Impressive in its global scope, this Handbook offers scholarly depth on a rich array of topics, demonstrating the variety and potential power of religiously motivated thought and action, as well as the distinctive contributions of religions in healing humans relationship to the more-than-human world. I have found each chapter uniquely fascinating, and I am eager to continue consulting this Handbook in my own research and writing. -- Debra Rienstra, Calvin University, USA This Handbook offers a powerful account of how some of the worlds religions are contributing to sustainable development. The book also highlights the profound moral and theological vision that is necessary for this work. This is one of the few books I know that builds on the United Nations goals to weave together the promotion of human flourishing and the health and integrity of our ecosystem. It is classroom ready and urgently needed. -- Willie Jennings, Yale University, USA This Handbook successfully expands on and complements the literature of religion and the environment. More importantly, the chapters expand on themes of ethnicity, gender diversity, and equity around the globe. From Islam to Judaism, Japan to Africa, politics to culture, gardens to prairies, the Handbook on Religion and the Environment comprehensively delivers to a broad audience including and outside of religion and the environment. -- Dianne Glave, Author of Rooted in the Earth: Reclaiming the African American Environmental Heritage and Black Eco-Theology
Contents
PART I INTRODUCTION
1 Religious approaches to the environment, the UN sustainable development
goals, and the challenges of modernity 2
Susan Power Bratton, Stephanie Clintonia Boddie, and brahim Özdemir
PART II GREEN RELIGIOUS HERITAGE IN SACRED TEXTS, SPIRITUAL
WISDOM, AND COMMUNITY PRACTICE
2 Islamic ecotheology: foundations and challenges 10
brahim Özdemir
3 The quiet conservation of monastic communities: practical strategies for
enhancing biodiversity, open space and sense of place 24
Jason M. Brown
4 Half-siblings and brothers: the Shu view of nature of the Naxi, an
Indigenous culture of Yunnan Province, China 48
Song Tian and Yuan Gao
5 Buddhism, sustainability, and the Fourth Industrial Revolution 66
Peter L. Daniels
PART III NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS AND ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISM
6 Microbes, religion, and environmentalism in Japan 89
Chika Watanabe
7 Native American religious movements and their environmental
implications: the ecological assemblages of Gaiwiio and Peyotism in North
America 104
James W. Waters
PART IV FOUNDATIONS OF ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIAL ETHICS AND
ECOJUSTICE
8 Literary counter-liturgies and environmental justice 124
Joshua King
9 The earth must be the horizon of the social question: Catholic social
teaching, Laudato Si, and Latin America 141
Matthew Philipp Whelan
10 Women, religion, and environmental care in Africa 156
Samuel E. Oladipo, A. Christson Adedoyin, Hammed Adeoye, Jimoh
W. Owoyele, Olufunmilayo A. Adelaja, Stephanie Wynn, Obofoni E.
Oarhe-Adekola, and Georges Adunlin
PART V ENCOUNTERING ENVIRONMENTAL, ECONOMIC, AND
POLITICAL CONFLICTS
11 Jewish values and shared waters in an uncertain world 170
Richard M. Friend and Clive Lipchin
12 Christian evangelicals and the lilies of the field: how a sense of
nationalism
impacted the religious rights views of nature 186
Neall W. Pogue
PART VI APPLYING CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL AND MANAGEMENT
MODELS TO RELIGIOUS ENVIRONMENTAL LEADERSHIP
13 Is religion an institution? Configuring ecological religion for political
and
social analysis 198
Jeremy H. Kidwell
14 Cultivating religious leadership for sustainable development 209
Timothy Ewest
PART VII CONSERVING ECOSYSTEMS AND BIODIVERSITY
15 The role of local beliefs and customary practices in biodiversity
conservation in Nigeria 232
Folaranmi Dapo Babalola, Stella Egbe, and Lynne R. Baker
16 Modernity, industrialization, and the Naxi environmental ethic:
conserving
forest cover and biodiversity via rights for nature 247
Song Tian and Yuan Gao
17 A night burn on the prairie: ecological restoration as performance,
ritual,
and ceremony 258
William R. Jordan III, Susan Power Bratton and Thomas B. Simpson
PART VIII BUILDING SUSTAINABLE, RESILIENT, AND EQUITABLE
COMMUNITIES TO MITIGATE THE IMPACTS OF RESOURCE
DISPARITIES, CLIMATE CHANGE, AND NATURAL DISASTERS
18 Black church urban gardens as contemporary refugia 272
Stephanie Clintonia Boddie and Jamal-Dominique Hopkins
19 Integral mission in action: a case study of a faith-based, NGO-led solid
waste management project in Haiti 286
Bethanie Saint Louis, Jocelyn Shealy McGee, and Bunet Exantus
20 The roles of religiosity on philanthropic behaviour after natural
disaster:
the case of Hurricane Sandy 305
Chenyi Ma, Stephanie Clintonia Boddie, and Katherina Rosqueta
21 Faith communities as participants in climate resilience hubs: a case
study
from Oregon 319
Cherice Bock
PART IX EDUCATING FOR ENVIRONMENTAL AND RELIGIOUS
UNDERSTANDING
22 In the brackets of wilderness: forming vital spiritual communities of
reflection, attention, and communion in the Sierra 337
Nathan P. Carson
23 The spirit of botanical gardens: intersections of science, aesthetics,
and
religion in environmental education 357
Susan Power Bratton
Edited by Susan Power Bratton, Professor Emerita, Department of Environmental Science, Baylor University, Stephanie Clintonia Boddie, Associate Professor of Church and Community Ministries and Fuller Family Endowed Chair for Social Justice, Diana R. Garland School of Social Work, George W. Truett Theological Seminary, and School of Education, Baylor University, USA and brahim Özdemir, Professor of Philosophy, Üsküdar University, Türkiye and Vice President for Academic Affairs, American Islamic College, USA
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