Book Title

To Care for Creation: The Emergence of the Religious Environmental Movement in the United States

Authors

Stephen EllingsonFollow

Type of Work

Book

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Publication Date

2016

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

City

Chicago, IL, USA

ISBN

9780226367248

Abstract

Given the long history of religious anti-environmentalism, surprising inroads have been made by a new movement with few financial resources, which is deeply committed to promoting green religious traditions and creating a new environmental ethic. To Care for Creation chronicles this movement and explains how it has emerged despite institutional and cultural barriers, as well as the hurdles posed by logic and practices that set religious environmental organizations apart from the secular movement. Ellingson takes a deep dive into the ways entrepreneurial activists tap into and improvise on a variety of theological, ethical, and symbolic traditions in order to issue a compelling call to arms that mobilizes religious audiences. Drawing on interviews with the leaders of more than sixty of these organizations, Ellingson deftly illustrates how activists borrow and rework resources from various traditions to create new meanings for religion, nature, and the religious person’s duty to the natural world.

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Hamilton Areas of Study

Sociology