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Climate, Catastrophe, and Faith - How Changes in Climate Drive Religious Upheaval (Hardcover)
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Climate, Catastrophe, and Faith - How Changes in Climate Drive Religious Upheaval (Hardcover)
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One of the world's leading scholars of religious trends shows how
climate change has driven dramatic religious upheavals. Long before
the current era of man-made climate change, the world has suffered
repeated, severe climate-driven shocks. These shocks have resulted
in famine, disease, violence, social upheaval, and mass migration.
But these shocks were also religious events. Dramatic shifts in
climate have often been understood in religious terms by the people
who experienced them. They were described in the language of
apocalypse, millennium, and Judgment. Often, too, the eras in which
these shocks occurred have been marked by far-reaching changes in
the nature of religion and spirituality. Those changes have varied
widely - from growing religious fervor and commitment; to the
stirring of mystical and apocalyptic expectations; to waves of
religious scapegoating and persecution; or the spawning of new
religious movements and revivals. In many cases, such responses
have had lasting impacts, fundamentally reshaping particular
religious traditions. In Climate, Catastrophe, and Faith historian
Philip Jenkins draws out the complex relationship between religion
and climate change. He asserts that the religious movements and
ideas that emerge from climate shocks often last for many decades,
and even become a familiar part of the religious landscape, even
though their origins in particular moments of crisis may be
increasingly consigned to remote memory. By stirring conflicts and
provoking persecutions that defined themselves in religious terms,
changes in climate have redrawn the world's religious maps, and
created the global concentrations of believers as we know them
today. This bold new argument will change the way we think about
the history of religion, regardless of tradition. And it will
demonstrate how our growing climate crisis will likely have a
comparable religious impact across the Global South.
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