Religion and Ecological Crisis: The “Lynn White Thesis” at Fifty

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Todd LeVasseur, Anna Peterson
Routledge, 1 ביולי 2016 - 214 עמודים

In 1967, Lynn White, Jr.’s seminal article The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis was published, essentially establishing the academic study of religion and nature. White argues that religions—particularly Western Christianity—are a major cause of worldwide ecological crises. He then asserts that if we are to halt, let alone revert, anthropogenic damages to the environment, we need to radically transform religious cosmologies. White’s hugely influential thesis has been cited thousands of times in a variety of disciplines, including but not limited to religious studies, environmental ethics, history, ecological science, philosophy, psychology, and anthropology.

In practical terms, the ecological crisis to which White was responding has only worsened in the decades since the article was published. This collection of original essays by leading scholars in a variety of interdisciplinary settings, including religion and nature, environmental ethics, animal studies, ecofeminism, restoration ecology, and ecotheology, considers the impact of White’s arguments, offering constructive criticism as well as reflections on the ongoing, ever-changing scholarly debate about the way religion and culture contribute to both environmental crises and to their possible solutions. Religion and Ecological Crisis addresses a wide range of topics related to White’s thesis, including its significance for environmental ethics and philosophy, the response from conservative Christians and evangelicals, its importance for Asian religious traditions, ecofeminist interpretations of the article, and which perspectives might have, ultimately, been left out of his analysis. This book is a timely reflection on the legacy and continuing challenge of White’s influential article.

 

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1 Introduction
1
2 Lynn White Jrs The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis after Fifty Years
18
3 The Historical Roots of Environmental Philosophy
33
Lynn Whites Environmental Jeremiad
47
The AntiEcological Character of Latin Christianity and the ProEcological Turn of Protestantism
61
Lynn White in Indian Country
75
7 Lynn White Jr One Catalyst in the Historical Development of Spiritual Ecology
89
Applying Lynn White Jrs Prescriptions for a Christian Environmental Ethic
103
To Rethink and Refeel Our Origins and Destiny
121
Religion Secular Science and the Project of Power and Control
137
12 A Lens a Path a Return JourneyLynn White and the Question of Animal Protection
147
13 Whats Left Out of the Lynn White Narrative?
165
Some Thoughts on the Roots
178
Contributors
197
Index
203
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Romance? Reality?
110

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Todd LeVasseur is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the College of Charleston in South Carolina, in the Religious Studies Department, and he is currently Program Director of Environmental Studies. He has published numerous articles and chapters on topics including climate change, sustainability, radical environmentalism, sustainable agriculture, and ecolinguistics. He is lead editor for a forthcoming book from the University Press of Kentucky titled Religion and Sustainable Agriculture: World Spiritual Traditions and Food Ethics.

Anna Peterson is professor in the Department of Religion at the University of Florida. She received her PhD from the University of Chicago Divinity School and her AB from the University of California at Berkeley. Her research interests are in religion and social change, especially in Latin America; environmental and social ethics; and the place of animals in environmental thought. She has published a number of articles, chapters, and books, including Being Human: Ethics, Environment, and Our Place in the World (2001), Everyday Ethics and Social Change: The Education of Desire (2009) and Being Animal: Beasts and Boundaries in Nature Ethics (2013). Presently she is working on two research projects: on one the place of practice in ethical theory and another on the companion animal rescue movement.

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