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Inherited Land (Hardcover)
Whitney A. Bauman, Richard R. Bohannon, Kevin J. O'Brien
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Discovery Miles 11 320
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Now in its second edition, Grounding Religion explores
relationships between the environment and religious beliefs and
practices. Established scholars introduce students to the ways in
which religion shapes human-earth relations, surveying a series of
questions about how the religious world influences and is
influenced by ecological systems. Case studies, discussion
questions, and further reading enrich students' experience. This
second edition features updated content, including revisions of
every chapter and new material on natural disasters, gender and
sexuality, race and ethnicity, climate change, food, technology,
and hope and despair. An excellent text for undergraduates and
graduates alike, it offers an expansive overview of the academic
field of religion and ecology as it has emerged in the past fifty
years.
Now in its third edition, Grounding Religion explores relationships
between the environment and religious beliefs and practices.
Established scholars introduce students to the ways religion shapes
and is shaped by human–earth relations, surveying a series of key
issues and questions with particular attention to issues of
environmental degradation, social justice, ritual practices, and
religious worldviews. Case studies, discussion questions, and
further readings enrich students’ experience. This third edition
features updated content, including revisions of every chapter and
new material on religion and the environmental humanities,
sexuality and queer studies, class, ability, privilege and power,
environmental justice, extinction, biodiversity, and politics. An
excellent text for undergraduates and graduates alike, it offers an
expansive overview of the academic field of religion and ecology as
it has emerged in the past fifty years and continues to develop
today.
Now in its third edition, Grounding Religion explores relationships
between the environment and religious beliefs and practices.
Established scholars introduce students to the ways religion shapes
and is shaped by human–earth relations, surveying a series of key
issues and questions with particular attention to issues of
environmental degradation, social justice, ritual practices, and
religious worldviews. Case studies, discussion questions, and
further readings enrich students’ experience. This third edition
features updated content, including revisions of every chapter and
new material on religion and the environmental humanities,
sexuality and queer studies, class, ability, privilege and power,
environmental justice, extinction, biodiversity, and politics. An
excellent text for undergraduates and graduates alike, it offers an
expansive overview of the academic field of religion and ecology as
it has emerged in the past fifty years and continues to develop
today.
This interdisciplinary book of essays addresses critical issues
arising from the emergence of legal process and legal institutions
in contemporary China. The introduction by the editors and the
individual chapters attempt, for the first time, to bring to bear
on the study of Chinese law the law-and-society scholarship that
has enriched Western legal studies.
The climate is changing as an unintended consequence of human
industrialization and consumerism. Recently some scientists and
engineers have suggested climate engineering-technological
solutions that would intentionally change the climate to make it
more hospitable. This approach focuses on large-scale technologies
to alleviate the worst effects of anthropogenic climate change.
This book considers the moral, philosophical, and religious
questions raised by such proposals, bringing Christian theology and
ethics into the conversation about climate engineering for the
first time. The contributors have different views on whether
climate engineering is morally acceptable and on what kinds of
climate engineering are most promising and most dangerous, but all
agree that religion has a vital role to play in the analysis and
decisions called for on this vital issue. Calming the Storm
presents diverse perspectives on some of the most vital questions
raised by climate engineering: Who has the right to make decisions
about such global technological efforts? What have we learned from
the decisions that caused the climate to change that might shed
light on efforts to reverse that change? What frameworks and
metaphors are helpful in thinking about climate engineering, and
which are counterproductive? What religious beliefs, practices, and
rituals can help people to imagine and evaluate the prospect of
engineering the climate?
Since its founding in 1954, the National People's Congress of China
(NPC) has followed a difficult course of development, a course
which has been characterized by periods of limited progress
intermingled with periods of stagnation and regression. Political
campaigns from the Anti-Rightist Movement (1957-1958) to the Great
Leap Forward (1958-1960) to the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976)
frustrated the establishment of any consistent policy concerning
the appropriate role of the legislature within the one-party,
Maoist regime. Mao's death in 1976, however, ushered in a new era
of political reform which has included the strengthening of the
NPC. In this first detailed study of the NPC, Kevin O'Brien
examines how the NPC has changed from its founding under Mao
through the regime of Deng Xiaoping. He describes the various
functions it has served, from the management of intra-elite
relations; to the incorporation, and co-optation, of criticisms of
regime policies into regime debates; to legislation and supervision
of government agencies. The author concludes that although the NPC
has not moved toward liberalization, meaning movement toward
political autonomy and direct representation of citizen interests,
increased legislative involvement in lawmaking, oversight and
regime support indicates that the NPC is developing an expanded,
more powerful role in the political system.
Now in its second edition, Grounding Religion explores
relationships between the environment and religious beliefs and
practices. Established scholars introduce students to the ways in
which religion shapes human-earth relations, surveying a series of
questions about how the religious world influences and is
influenced by ecological systems. Case studies, discussion
questions, and further reading enrich students' experience. This
second edition features updated content, including revisions of
every chapter and new material on natural disasters, gender and
sexuality, race and ethnicity, climate change, food, technology,
and hope and despair. An excellent text for undergraduates and
graduates alike, it offers an expansive overview of the academic
field of religion and ecology as it has emerged in the past fifty
years.
Climate change is viewed as a primarily scientific, economic, or
political issue. While acknowledging the legitimacy of these
perspectives, Kevin J. O'Brien argues that we should respond to
climate change first and foremost as a case of systematic and
structural violence. Global warming is largely caused by the carbon
emissions of the affluent, emissions that harm the poor first and
worst. Climate change is violence because it divides human beings
from one another and from the earth. O'Brien offers a constructive
and creative response to this violence through practical examples
of activism and nonviolent peacemaking, providing brief biographies
of five Christians in the United States-John Woolman, Jane Addams,
Dorothy Day, Martin Luther King Jr., and Cesar Chavez. These
activists' idealism, social commitment, and political savvy offer
lessons of resistance applicable to the struggle against climate
change and for social justice.
Since its founding in 1954, the National People's Congress of China
(NPC) has followed a difficult course of development, a course
which has been characterized by periods of limited progress
intermingled with periods of stagnation and regression. Political
campaigns from the Anti-Rightist Movement (1957-1958) to the Great
Leap Forward (1958-1960) to the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976)
frustrated the establishment of any consistent policy concerning
the appropriate role of the legislature within the one-party,
Maoist regime. Mao's death in 1976, however, ushered in a new era
of political reform which has included the strengthening of the
NPC. In this first detailed study of the NPC, Kevin O'Brien
examines how the NPC has changed from its founding under Mao
through the regime of Deng Xiaoping. He describes the various
functions it has served, from the management of intra-elite
relations; to the incorporation, and co-optation, of criticisms of
regime policies into regime debates; to legislation and supervision
of government agencies. The author concludes that although the NPC
has not moved toward liberalization, meaning movement toward
political autonomy and direct representation of citizen interests,
increased legislative involvement in lawmaking, oversight and
regime support indicates that the NPC is developing an expanded,
more powerful role in the political system.
How can the poor and weak 'work' a political system to their
advantage? Drawing mainly on interviews and surveys in rural China,
Kevin O'Brien and Lianjiang Li show that popular action often
hinges on locating and exploiting divisions within the state.
Otherwise powerless people use the rhetoric and commitments of the
central government to try to fight misconduct by local officials,
open up clogged channels of participation, and push back the
frontiers of the permissible. This 'rightful resistance' has
far-reaching implications for our understanding of contentious
politics. As O'Brien and Li explore the origins, dynamics, and
consequences of rightful resistance, they highlight similarities
between collective action in places as varied as China, the former
East Germany, and the United States, while suggesting how Chinese
experiences speak to issues such as opportunities to protest,
claims radicalization, tactical innovation, and the outcomes of
contention.
Life on earth is wildly diverse, but the future of that
diversity is now in question. Through environmentally destructive
farming practices, ever-expanding energy use, and the development
and homogenization of land, human beings are responsible for
unprecedented reductions in the variety of life forms around us.
Estimates suggest that species extinctions caused by humans occur
at up to 1,000 times the natural rate, and that one of every twenty
species on the planet could be eradicated by 2060.
"An Ethics of Biodiversity" argues that these facts should
inspire careful reflection and action in Christian churches, which
must learn from earth's vast diversity in order to help conserve
the natural and social diversity of our planet. Bringing scientific
data into conversation with theological tradition, the book shows
that biodiversity is a point of intersection between faith and
ethics, social justice and environmentalism, science and politics,
global problems and local solutions. "An Ethics of Biodiversity"
offers a set of tools for students, environmentalists, and people
of faith to think critically about how human beings can live with
and as part of the variety of life in God's creation.
How can the poor and weak 'work' a political system to their
advantage? Drawing mainly on interviews and surveys in rural China,
Kevin O'Brien and Lianjiang Li show that popular action often
hinges on locating and exploiting divisions within the state.
Otherwise powerless people use the rhetoric and commitments of the
central government to try to fight misconduct by local officials,
open up clogged channels of participation, and push back the
frontiers of the permissible. This 'rightful resistance' has
far-reaching implications for our understanding of contentious
politics. As O'Brien and Li explore the origins, dynamics, and
consequences of rightful resistance, they highlight similarities
between collective action in places as varied as China, the former
East Germany, and the United States, while suggesting how Chinese
experiences speak to issues such as opportunities to protest,
claims radicalization, tactical innovation, and the outcomes of
contention.
Do our ideas about social movements travel successfully beyond
the democratic West? Unrest in China, from the dramatic events of
1989 to more recent stirrings, offers a rare opportunity to explore
this question and to consider how popular contention unfolds in
places where speech and assembly are tightly controlled. The
contributors to this volume, all prominent scholars of Chinese
politics and society, argue that ideas inspired by social movements
elsewhere can help explain popular protest in China.
Drawing on fieldwork in China, the authors consider topics as
varied as student movements, protests by angry workers and taxi
drivers, recruitment to Protestant house churches, cyberprotests,
and anti-dam campaigns. Their work relies on familiar concepts such
as political opportunity, framing, and mobilizing structures while
interrogating the usefulness of these concepts in a country with a
vastly different history of class and state formation than the
capitalist West. The volume also speaks to silences in the study of
contentious politics (for example, protest leadership, the role of
grievances, and unconventional forms of organization), and shows
that well-known concepts must at times be modified to square with
the reality of an authoritarian, non-western state.
Christians share a common concern for the earth. Evangelicals
emphasize creation care; mainline Protestants embrace the green
movement; the Catholic Church lists "10 deadly environmental sins;"
and the Eastern Orthodox Patriarch has declared climate change an
urgent issue of social and economic justice.This textbook examines
seven contemporary environmental challenges through the lens of
classical Christian virtues. Authors Kathryn Blanchard and Kevin
O'Brien use these classical Christian virtues to seek a "golden
mean" between extreme positions by pairing each virtue with a
pernicious environmental problem. Students are thus led past
political pitfalls and encouraged to care for other creatures
prudently, to develop new energy sources courageously, to choose
our food temperately, to manage toxic pollution justly, to respond
to climate change faithfully, to consider humanity's future
hopefully, and to engage lovingly in advocacy for God's earth.
Readers will emerge from this text with a deeper understanding of
contemporary environmental problems and the fundamentals of
Christian virtue ethics.
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Inherited Land (Paperback)
Whitney A. Bauman, Richard R. Bohannon, Kevin J. O'Brien
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R925
Discovery Miles 9 250
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Climate change is viewed as a primarily scientific, economic, or
political issue. While acknowledging the legitimacy of these
perspectives, Kevin J. O'Brien argues that we should respond to
climate change first and foremost as a case of systematic and
structural violence. Global warming is largely caused by the carbon
emissions of the affluent, emissions that harm the poor first and
worst. Climate change is violence because it divides human beings
from one another and from the earth. O'Brien offers a constructive
and creative response to this violence through practical examples
of activism and nonviolent peacemaking, providing brief biographies
of five Christians in the United States-John Woolman, Jane Addams,
Dorothy Day, Martin Luther King Jr., and Cesar Chavez. These
activists' idealism, social commitment, and political savvy offer
lessons of resistance applicable to the struggle against climate
change and for social justice.
Christians share a common concern for the earth. Evangelicals
emphasize creation care; mainline Protestants embrace the green
movement; the Catholic Church lists "10 deadly environmental sins";
and the Eastern Orthodox Patriarch has declared climate change an
urgent issue of social and economic justice.
This textbook examines seven contemporary environmental
challenges through the lens of classical Christian virtues. Authors
Kathryn Blanchard and Kevin O'Brien use these classical Christian
virtues to discover a "golden mean" between extreme positions by
pairing each virtue with a pernicious environmental problem.
Students are thus led past political pitfalls and encouraged to
care for other creatures prudently, to develop new energy sources
courageously, to choose our food temperately, to manage toxic
pollution justly, to respond to climate change faithfully, to
consider humanity's future hopefully, and to engage lovingly in
advocacy for God's earth. Readers will emerge from this text with a
deeper understanding of contemporary environmental problems and the
fundamentals of Christian virtue ethics.
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