Religion and Climate Change

Posted: 26 Oct 2018

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Willis Jenkins

Yale University

Evan Berry

American University - Center for Latin American & Latino Studies (CLALS)

Luke Beck Kreider

University of Virginia

Date Written: October 2018

Abstract

Understanding the cultural dimensions of climate change requires understanding its religious aspects. Insofar as climate change is entangled with humans, it is also entangled with all the ways in which religion attends human ways of being. Scholarship on the connections between religion and climate change includes social science research into how religious identity figures in attitudes toward climate change, confessional and constructive engagements of religious thought with climate change from various communities and traditions, historical and anthropological analyses of how climate affects religion and religion interprets climate, and theories by which climate change may itself be interpreted as a religious event. Responses to climate change by indigenous peoples challenge the categories of religion and of climate change in ways that illuminate reflexive stresses between the two cultural concepts.

Suggested Citation

Jenkins, Willis and Berry, Evan and Kreider, Luke Beck, Religion and Climate Change (October 2018). Annual Review of Environment and Resources, Vol. 43, pp. 85-108, 2018, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3273316 or http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-environ-102017-025855

Willis Jenkins (Contact Author)

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Evan Berry

American University - Center for Latin American & Latino Studies (CLALS) ( email )

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Luke Beck Kreider

University of Virginia ( email )

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Charlottesville, VA 22903
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