Berry / Albro Church, Cosmovision and the Environment

Religion and Social Conflict in Contemporary Latin America
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-351-59612-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 266 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Religion

Though currently only partially understood, evolving interactions among Latin American communities of faith, governments, and civil societies are a key feature of the popular mobilization and policy debates about environment in the region. This edited collection describes and analyses multiple types of religious engagement with environmental concerns and conflicts seen in modern Latin American democracies.

This volume contributes to scholarship on the intersections of religion with environmental conflict in a number of ways. Firstly, it provides comparative analysis of the manner in which diverse religious actors are currently participating in transnational, national, and local advocacy in places such as, Peru, Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Ecuador, Guatemala, and Mexico. It also considers the diversity of an often plural religious engagement with advocacy, including Catholic, Evangelical and Pentecostal perspectives alongside the effects of indigenous cosmological ideas. Finally, this book explores the specific religious sources of seemingly unlikely new alliances and novel articulations of rights, social justice, and ethics for the environmental concerns of Latin America.

The relationship between religion and environmental issues is an increasingly important topic in the conversations around ecology and climate change. This book is, therefore, a pertinent and topical work for any academic working in Religious Studies, Environmental Studies, and Latin American Studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Berry, Evan

Albro, Robert

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religion & Politik, Religionsfreiheit

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction

Evan Berry and Robert Albro

2. Church Advocacy in Latin America: Integrating Environment in the Struggle for Justice and Human Rights

Guillermo Kerber

3. Transnational Religious Advocacy Networks in Latin America and Beyond

Evan Berry

4. The Lausanne Movement, Holistic Mission and the Introduction of Creation Care in Latin America and Argentina

Hans Geir Aasmundsen

5. Marina Silva: A Brazilian Case Study in Religion, Politics and Human Rights

Paul Freston

6. Bolivia’s Indigenous Foreign Policy: Buen Vivir and Global Climate Change

Ethics

Robert Albro

7. Relatives of the Living Forest: The Social Relation to Nature Underlying Ecological Action in Amazonian Kichwa Communities

Tod D. Swanson

8. Trickster Ecology: Climate Change and Conservation Pluralism in Guatemala’s Maya Lowlands

Liza Grandia

9. The Winds of Oaxaca: Renewable Energy, Climate Change Mitigation and the Ethics of Transition

Cymene Howe

10. Articulating Indigenous Ecologies: The Indigenous Pastoral in the Huasteca, Mexico

Kristina Tiedje

Über Autor(innen)

Evan Berry is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religion and also Co-Director of the Ethics, Peace, and Global Affairs master’s program at American University, USA. His current research combines ethnographic research with philosophical reflection to examine the intersections among religion, globalization, civil society groups, and climate change, and seeks to advance knowledge about the role of religious actors as part of contemporary environmental contestations. His book, Devoted to Nature (2015), explores the religious underpinnings of the American environmental movement. Berry has been a Carnegie Council Global Ethics Fellow and is currently a Franklin Fellow at the US Department of State.

Robert Albro is Research Associate Professor in the Center for Latin American and Latino Studies at the American University, USA. He has conducted ethnographic research and published widely on popular and indigenous politics along Bolivia’s urban periphery. Much of this work is summarized in his book, Roosters at Midnight (2010). He has been a Fulbright scholar, and held fellowships at the Carnegie Council, the Kluge Center of the Library of Congress, and the Smithsonian Institution.