Environmental Justice Activism

A Transformative, Contemporary Nature Religion

Bibliographic Data

ID4233339
AuthorsPaul Deal (0000-0001-8163-4571, SUNY Plattsburgh, Plattsburgh, NY, USA, corresponding author), Kari O''Grady, Kari O'Grady (Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, USA), Kari A O’Grady (0000-0003-2655-221X, Brigham Young University)
Year2020
Volume62
Issue2
Pages315-332
Publication date2020-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueReview of Religious Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2211-4866 • E-ISSN: 0034-673X
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1007/s13644-020-00409-y
OpenAlexW3024795349
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited42

Our in-depth study of 12, spiritual but not religious (SBNR), participants arrested to protect nature as sacred presents a case to consider the religious and spiritual meanings of contemporary environmental and ecology movements. Through a lived religious approach to participants' narratives of environmental justice (ENVJ) activism, this paper identified four themes- reconstructing self and nature, re- envisioning social and moral life, living with vulnerability, and practices of spiritual and cultural work-whose meanings evidenced transformative spiritual effects on participants identity, ethics, coping, and ways of participating in society. Findings present a case to argue that although ENVJ activism resembles a SBNR phenomenon and satisfies criteria of an implicit religion, it most closely aligns with a contemporary nature religion whose substantive essence is an immanent sense of nature as sacred

Aesthetics · Economic Justice · Environmental ethics · Environmental justice · Epistemology · Identity (music) · Narrative · Phenomenon · Political science · Sociology · Transformative learning · Vulnerability (computing) · Environmental Philosophy and Ethics · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Philosophy · Religion, Ecology, and Ethics

Tools

Open DOISci-Hub