Religion, Sustainability, and Place
Religion, Sustainability, and Place This book explores how religious groups work to create sustainable relationships between people, places and environments. The book begins with a broad examination…
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Religion, Sustainability, and Place
This book explores how religious groups work to create sustainable relationships between people, places and environments. The book begins with a broad examination of how place shapes faith-based ideas about sustainability, with examples drawn from indigenous Hawaiians and the sacred texts of Judaism and Islam. This interdisciplinary volume deepens our understanding of this relationship, revealing that the geographical imagination--our sense of place--is a key aspect of the sustainability ideas and practices of religious groups.
Other contributors demonstrate that a cosmopolitan geographical imagination, viewing place as Empirical case studies from North America, Europe, Central Asia and Africa follow, illustrating how a local, bounded, and sacred sense of place informs religious-based efforts to protect people and natural resources from threatening economic and political forces.
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