Church, Cosmovision and the Environment: Religion and Social Conflict in Contemporary Latin America

ISBN-13: 9781138400467 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 254 str.

Evan Berry; Robert Albro

Opis

This edited collection describes and analyses multiple types of religious engagement with environmental concerns and conflicts seen in modern Latin American democracies. It provides comparative analysis of the manner in which diverse religious actors are currently participating in transnational, national, and local advocacy across the region.

Spis treści

1 Introduction: Religion and Environmental Conflict in Latin America  Part 1: Ecclesial Articulations of Environmental Rights and Justice  2 Church Advocacy in Latin America: Integrating Environment in the Struggle for Justice and Human Rights  3 Transnational Religious Advocacy Networks in Latin America and Beyond  4 The Lausanne Movement, Holistic Mission and the Introduction of Creation Care in Latin America and Argentina  5 Marina Silva: A Brazilian Case Study in Religion, Politics and Human Rights  Part 2: Cosmovision and Indigenous Expressions of Environmental Rights and Justice  6 Bolivia’s Indigenous Foreign Policy: Buen Vivir and Global Climate Change Ethics  7 Relatives of the Living Forest: The Social Relation to Nature Underlying Ecological Action in Amazonian Kichwa Communities  8 Trickster Ecology: Climate Change and Conservation Pluralism in Guatemala’s Maya Lowlands  9 The Winds of Oaxaca: Renewable Energy, Climate Change Mitigation, and the Ethics of Transition  10 Articulating Indigenous Ecologies: The Indigenous Pastoral in the Huasteca, Mexico  11 Religion and Cosmovisions within Environmental Conflicts and the Challenge of Ontological Openings