Recent decades have witnessed a surge of literature and activism from religious leaders and thinkers on the natural environment. Religions and Environments: A Reader in Religion, Nature and Ecology brings together some of the most thought-provoking examples of such writings from the nineteenth century up to today, spanning a variety of methodological approaches and religious traditions, viewpoints and locations.

Religions and Environments: A Reader in Religion, Nature and Ecology depicts some of the diverse ways that religious narratives and practices have helped people...

'Nature' and the 'city' have most often functionedas opposites within Western culture, a dichotomy that has been reinforced (andsometimes challenged) by religious images. Bohannon argues here that cities andnatural environments, however, are both connected and continually affected byone another. He shows how such connections become overt during naturaldisasters, which disrupt the narratives people use to make sense of the world, including especially religious narratives, and make them more visible.

This book offers both a theoretical exploration of theintersection...

'Nature' and the 'city' have most often functioned as opposites within Western culture, a dichotomy that has been reinforced (and sometimes challenged) by religious images. Bohannon argues here that cities and natural environments, however, are both connected and continually affected by one another. He shows how such connections become overt during natural disasters, which disrupt the narratives people use to make sense of the world, including especially religious narratives, and make them more visible. This book offers both a theoretical exploration of the intersection of the city,...