God and the Green Divide Baugh Amanda J.
God and the Green Divide Baugh Amanda J. American environmentalism historically has been associated with the interests of white elites. How did that happen and what are the implications? Yet…
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God and the Green Divide Baugh Amanda J.
American environmentalism historically has been associated with the interests of white elites. How did that happen and what are the implications? Yet religious leaders in the twenty-first century have helped instill concern about the earth among groups diverse in religion, race, ethnicity, and class.
Baugh demonstrates how complex dynamics related to race, ethnicity, and class factor into decisions to "go green." By carefully examining negotiations of racial and ethnic identities as central to the history of religious environmentalism, this work complicates assumptions that religious environmentalism is a direct expression of theology, ethics, or Building on scholarship that provides theological and ethical resources to support the "greening" of religion, God and the Green Divide examines religious environmentalism as it actually happens in the daily lives of urban Americans.