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Historical Disasters in Context - Science, Religion, and Politics (Hardcover)
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Historical Disasters in Context - Science, Religion, and Politics (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Cultural History
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Growing concerns about climate change and the increasing occurrence
of ever more devastating natural disasters in some parts of the
world and their consequences for human life, not only in the
immediately affected regions, but for all of us, have increased our
desire to learn more about disaster experiences in the past. How
did disaster experiences impact on the development of modern
sciences in the early modern era? Why did religion continue to play
such an important role in the encounter with disasters, despite the
strong trend towards secularization in the modern world? What was
the political role of disasters? Historical Disasters in Context
illustrates how past societies coped with a threatening
environment, how societies changed in response to disaster
experiences, and how disaster experiences were processed and
communicated, both locally and globally. Particular emphasis is put
on the realms of science, religion, and politics. International
case studies demonstrate that while there are huge differences
across cultures in the way people and societies responded to
disasters, there are also many commonalities and interactions
between different cultures that have the potential to alter the
ways people prepare for and react to disasters in future. To
explain these relationships and highlight their significance is the
purpose of this volume.
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