Creative Moral Responses to Eco‐Reproductive Concerns
Addressing Gaps in Christian Environmental Ethics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14760683 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kristi Del Vecchio (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 520-546 |
| Publication date | 2024-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Religious Ethics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0384-9694 • E-ISSN: 1467-9795 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/jore.12488 |
| OpenAlex | W4406208478 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 32 |
Adults in the United States are having fewer biological children in part due to worries about climate change and population growth, yet Christian environmental ethicists frequently avoid or dismiss these “eco‐reproductive” concerns. I argue that these avoidances lead to important limitations in the literature, which I address by employing a pragmatic approach for religious ethics. Learning from environmentalists who are critically engaging with their Christian inheritances, I find that informants draw upon religious repertoires to “kinnovate.” Namely, they expand notions of family beyond biological lineage by taking up vocations as godparents, youth mentors, foster parents, or chosen kin. I claim that these practices of Christian kinnovation are significant because they help to advance creative moral responses to eco‐reproductive concerns in religious contexts—interventions that currently remain underdeveloped in relevant ethical and theological literatures
Environmental ethics · Human sexuality · Sexual ethics · Sociology · Climate Change and Geoengineering · Environmental Philosophy and Ethics · Gender Studies · Philosophy · Psychology · Religion, Ecology, and Ethics · Social Psychology
Religion and Ecology
The Oxford Handbook of Intergenerational Ethics
The Planet You Inherit
The American Evasion of Philosophy
The interaction of human population, food production, and biodiversity protection
The Political Divide on Climate Change
Accounting for research fatigue in research ethics
Laudato Si’
Environmental Guilt and Shame
Earth-honoring Faith
Theology, Creation, and Environmental Ethics
Theology and Ecology across the Disciplines On Care for Our Common Home
The Environmental Impact of Overpopulation
The Future of Ethics
Climate anxiety in children and young people and their beliefs about government responses to climate change
Reproductive Justice
Making Myself”
Whether and How We Will Continue to Reproduce Ourselves
Qualitative Research in Communities of Color
Climate ethics and population policy
Population, Consumption, and the Environment
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |