The Greening of Religion Hypothesis (Part Two)
Assessing the Data from Lynn White, Jr, to Pope Francis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12901573 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bron Taylor (0000-0002-3328-2687, University of Florida, corresponding author), Gretel Van Wieren (Michigan State University), Bernard Daley Zaleha (University of California, Santa Cruz) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 306-378 |
| Publication date | 2016-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal for the Study of Religion Nature and Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1749-4907 • E-ISSN: 1749-4915 |
| Publisher | Equinox Publishing (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1558/jsrnc.v10i3.29011 |
| OpenAlex | W2548524958 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 66 |
Herein we provide a comprehensive review of research pertinent to Lynn White, Jr's contentions in 'The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis'(1967) about the negative environmental impacts of 'Judeo-Christian' ideas as well as subsequent claims that the world's predominant religions are becoming more environmentally friendly. Definitive conclusions are difficult given the complexity of biocultural systems; nevertheless, extant research has identified many themes and dynamics that hinder environmental understanding and mobilization by religious individuals, whether Abrahamic or involved in religions that originated in Asia. Some indigenous traditions, however, appear to foster pro-environmental perceptions and behaviors as do some nature-based cosmologies and value systems, which are often deeply informed by the sciences and direct experience within environmental systems. Our review overturns common misperceptions regarding the role of religion in environmental behaviors andconcludes that additional research is warranted to better understand under what circumstances, and with which communicative strategies, religious or other individuals and groups might be more effectively mobilized in response to contemporary environmental challenges
Biology · Environmental ethics · Environmentalism · Epistemology · Extant taxon · Indigenous · Perception · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Value (mathematics · White (mutation · History · Law · Pentecostalism and Christianity Studies · Philosophy · Psychology · Religion, Ecology, and Ethics · Religion, Society, and Development · Social Psychology · Ecology
Spirit in the woods
Malvern (1941) as a pioneering venture in Christian Ecotheology
Religion and Environment
What's 'evangelical' got to do with it? Disentangling the impact of evangelical Protestantism on environmental outcomes
Christianity, Personality and Environmental Concern among 13- to 15-year-old Students in England and Wales
Psychological and Theological Predictors of Environmental Attitudes among a Sample of UK Churchgoers
Conflict dynamics in greening processes
Rethinking Indigenous Religious Traditions with Jace Weaver
Gospel or curse
‘Hindu Studies’ in contemporary contexts
The landscape of faith-based environmental engagement in Canada
Environmental Degradation, Capitalism and Catholic Social Thought
The Role of Higher Education in Shaping Attitudes to the Environment and Economic Growth
Search for Meaning in the Anthropocene
Exploring the entanglements of contemporary spirituality, Catholicism, and environmentalism in South Tyrol, Italy
Distortive Assumptions in the Literature on White’s Thesis
Prospects and possibilities for interfaith environmentalism
African Initiated Churches and Ecological Sustainability
Cultural ecosystem services and decision‐making
Conceptualising God in Nature
Religious leadership for climate action in Africa
Building Coalitions from Shared Pieties
Religion, Covid-19, and Biocultural Evolution
Matthew Hall, The Imagination of Plants
Introduction to the Special Issue
Spirits of the Great Green Wall in Senegal
From Stewardship to Creation Spirituality
Spirituality in Forest Management
Covid-19 as a Gauge for Secularization? Pandemics, Religious Voices, and Politics in France
Mobilizing Faith Communities for Bee Preservation
On Mother Earth
Religious and secular environmental ethics
Stewardship and sustainability
Appealing to the minds of gods
Christianity and Anthropogenic Climate Change
Afterword
Spiritual values in forest management plans in British Columbia and the Netherlands
The Religion-Environment (Climate Change) Connection
Approaching Crisis in a Subjunctive Mode
Is there a Relation Between Ecological Practices and Spirituality? The Case of Benedictine Monasteries
Anthropocentrism
Faith-Based Environmental Engagement in Canada
Where is religion in political ecology
The grass versus the people
Exploring the interplay of environmental conservation within spirituality and multicultural perspective
How “green” can religions be? Tensions about religious environmentalism
Dark green humility
The perceived potential of religion in mitigating climate change and how this is being realized in Germany and Switzerland
Christian climate care
Who are American evangelical Protestants and why do they matter for US climate policy
Spiritualization of Ecology and (De)politicization
Breaches of Trust Change the Content and Structure of Religious Appeals
Explaining Green Party Support in the 2019 European Parliamentary Elections
Nepantla Environmentalism
Of Carcasses and Christ
Catholic clerical responses to climate change and Pope Francis’s Laudato Si
A Multibeing Manifesto
The (null) effect of climate change beliefs on disaster preparedness by houses of worship
Evangelical Environmentalists? Evidence from Brazil
The greening of Christianity? A study of environmental attitudes over time
"Introduction to "Religious Environmental Activism in Asia
A Reinterpretation of Hindu Spirituality for Addressing Environmental Problems
Green Patriarch, Green Patristics
Improvement of Students' Autonomous Learning Behavior by Optimizing Foreign Language Blended Learning Mode
An Ecolinguistic Reading of the Creation Story in the Bible
Feral Thinking
| Unique citing works | 66 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 6,6 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2026 (11) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 60 |