After the Flood : Imagining the Global Environment in Early Modern Europe /

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"Many centuries before the emergence of the scientific consensus on climate change, people began to imagine the existence of a global environment: a natural system capable of changing humans and of being changed by them. In After the Flood, Lydia Barnett traces the history of this idea back to...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Barnett, Lydia, 1981- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Theological anthropology > Christianity > History of doctrines.
Sin > Christianity > History of doctrines.
Deluge > History of doctrines.
RELIGION > Christianity > General.
RELIGION > Christian Life > Social Issues.
Anthropologie theologique > Christianisme > Histoire des doctrines.
Deluge > Histoire des doctrines.
Ecology > Religious aspects > Christianity > History of doctrines.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • A natural history of sin
  • Before the flood: gender, embodied sin, and environmental agency
  • After the flood: biblical monogenism, global migrations, and the origins of scientific racism
  • Protestant climate change: from Edenocene to Fallocene
  • The flood and the Apocalypse: building the republic of letters
  • Catholic climate change: heritable sin and strategies of toleration
  • The flood subsides.

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