Religion to the Rescue (?) in an Age of Climate Disruption

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ID12901141
AuthorsBron Taylor (0000-0002-3328-2687, University of Florida, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume9
Issue1
Pages7-18
Publication date2015-05-18
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal for the Study of Religion Nature and Culture (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1749-4907 • E-ISSN: 1749-4915
PublisherEquinox Publishing (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1558/jsrnc.v9i1.26504
OpenAlexW2237774853
LanguageEN
Citations received12
References cited10

Since the early 1990s calls by religious elites as well as by scholars who af?liate with and study religions to address the negative consequences of anthropogenic climate change have been increasing. An important example of the trend occurred in November 2014 during the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion in San Diego where ‘Religion and Climate Change’ was the conference’s central theme. Data presented at this meeting, however, was not encouraging for those hoping that religious individuals were embracing consensus scienti?c understandings about anthropogenic climate change, and becoming deeply concerned about climate disruption and making a strong response to it a high priority. The scienti?c study of the religious dimensions of perceptions and actions related to climate change, for its part, is showing signs of becoming more rigorous and illuminating, better able to track changes that might unfold with regard to religious perceptions and practices related to the earth’s environmental systems

Climate change · Environmental ethics · Perception · Political science · Theme (computing · Environmental Philosophy and Ethics · History · Psychology · Religion, Ecology, and Ethics · Religious Tourism and Spaces · Ecology

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