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Inherit the Holy Mountain - Religion and the Rise of American Environmentalism (Hardcover)
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Inherit the Holy Mountain - Religion and the Rise of American Environmentalism (Hardcover)
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Historians of American environmentalism have long given religion
either a negligible role or a negative one in the development of
the field. According to the standard view, Christianity fostered
attitudes hostile or indifferent to nature, with Protestantism the
worst offender. While virtually all leading environmental figures
did eventually leave organized religion, a large majority however
had religious childhoods, usually in Reformed Protestant churches,
and often counted clergy as close relatives. And although popular
support for conservation and environmentalism was relatively
non-denominational, Congregationalists provided the foundational
ideas of conservation, while the rise and decline of
environmentalism as a powerful national movement coincided with the
prevalence of Presbyterian leadership. By tracing the history of
American environmentalism from a perspective that puts religion at
the center rather than the margins, Mark Stoll opens up a
fundamentally new and much needed narrative in environmental
studies. Inherit the Holy Mountain argues against the divide
between religion and American environmentalism, demonstrating how
religion necessarily provided environmentalists with
deeply-embedded moral and cultural ways of viewing the world giving
content, direction, and tone to the environmental causes they
espoused. The book demonstrates how individuals' denominational
origins corresponded with characteristic sets of ideas about nature
and the environment, with each denomination fostering a distinctive
culture with its own moral framework and its own placement of
humans within the natural world. Stoll also demonstrates how each
denomination also fostered a distinctive aesthetic reaction to
nature, beginning each chapter of the book with an analysis of a
representative work of art. Inherit the Holy Mountain also provides
insight into the possible future of environmentalism in the United
States, concluding with an examination of the current religious
scene and consideration of what it may tell us. Whatever form the
response to these problems will take in the twenty-first century,
Stoll says, it will look very different, with different values,
goals, and styles of leadership, than it did when the children of
the Reformed churches created and led it.
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