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Religion in environmental and climate change : suffering, values, lifestyles /
Climate change and other global environmental changes deserve attention by the the humanities - they are caused mainly by human attitudes and activities and feed back to human societies. Focussing on religion allows for analysis of various human modes of perception, action and thought in relation to...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Continuum,
©2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Climate change and other global environmental changes deserve attention by the the humanities - they are caused mainly by human attitudes and activities and feed back to human societies. Focussing on religion allows for analysis of various human modes of perception, action and thought in relation to global environmental change. On the one hand, religious organizations are aiming to become "greener"; on the other hand, some religious ideas and practices display fatalism towards impacts of climate change. What might be the fate of different religions in an ever-warming world? This book |
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| Notas: | Proceedings of a symposium held Jan. 11-13, 2010 at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 269 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781441166289 1441166289 1283380188 9781283380188 9781472549266 1472549260 9781472505569 1472505565 9781441117076 1441117075 9786613380180 6613380180 |