Children and Climate Anxiety
An Ecofeminist Practical Theological Perspective
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3292301 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joyce Ann Mercer (0000-0002-8537-3679, Yale University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 302 |
| Publication date | 2022-03-31 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religions (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/rel13040302 |
| OpenAlex | W4220660016 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 47 |
As awareness grows of global warming and ecological degradation, words such as "climate anxiety", and "eco-anxiety" enter our vocabularies, describing the impact of climate change on human mental health and spiritual wellbeing. Distress over climate change disproportionately impacts children, who also are more susceptible to the broader health, economic, and social effects brought about by environmental harm. In this paper, I explore children's vulnerability to climate change and climate anxiety through the lens of ecofeminist practical theology. Ecofeminism brings the liberatory concerns of feminist theologies into engagement with those theologies focused on the life of the planet. Drawing on ecofeminism, practical theology must continue and deepen its own ecological conversion, and practical theologies of childhood must take seriously the work of making an ecological home, oikos, in which children are embedded as a part of the wider ecology that includes the more-than-human world. This requires foregrounding religious education with children toward the inhabitance of the earth in good and just ways. However, these theologies also must address children's lived realities of increased anxiety over planetary changes that endanger life through practices of spiritual care with children that engage and support them in their distress toward participatory empowerment for change
Anxiety · Climate change · Ecofeminism · Ecological crisis · Empowerment · Environmental ethics · Global warming · Harm · Political science · Psychiatry · Sociology · Climate Change and Geoengineering · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration · Psychology · Religion, Ecology, and Ethics · Social Psychology · Ecology
The Process of Eco-Anxiety and Ecological Grief
Climate Change in Religious Education and the Importance of Hope
Climate Change Issues in Saudi Elementary Schools
Responsible environmental education in the Anthropocene
What Children Know
Introduction to Pastoral Theological and Psychological Reflections on Climate Change
Ecology, Community and Lifestyle
Imagining Extinction
Global Climate Change and Children’s Health
How do children cope with global climate change? Coping strategies, engagement, and well-being
Chronic Environmental Change
Climate anxiety
Climate anxiety in young people
Anxiety, Worry, and Grief in a Time of Environmental and Climate Crisis
Anxiety and the Ecological Crisis
The Psychological Effects of Climate Change on Children
Young People’s Coping Strategies Concerning Climate Change
Impacts of Natural Disasters on Children
Kenotic Theologies and the Challenge of the ‘Anthropocene’
Educators’ experiences and strategies for responding to ecological distress
We need to (find a way to) talk about … Eco-anxiety
Converting the Imagination through Visual Images in Ecological Religious Education
Educating for Ecological Conversion
On Being at Home in the World
Childhood nature connection and constructive hope
Earth-honoring Faith
Learning to Live with Climate Change
Climate anxiety in children and young people and their beliefs about government responses to climate change
Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor
Peace, Protest and Precarity
Ecofeminist Theologies in the Age of Climate Crisis
Questioning Empathetic Responsiveness to Nonhuman Animal Vulnerability
Children and young people’s climate crisis activism – a perspective on long-term effects
What difference does it make? Exploring the transformative potential of everyday climate crisis activism by children and youth
Cultivating the “unquiet heart”
Social and Political Freedom
Trees and the “Unthought Known”
The psychological impacts of global climate change
Naming and framing ecological distress
Eco-Anxiety and Pastoral Care
| Citations per year | 1.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2025 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |