On Letting a Thousand Flowers Bloom: Religious Scholarship in a Time of Crisis
© The Author 2015. Published by Oxford University Press, on behalf of the American Academy of Religion. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com - IN THE FALL OF 2012, I introduced a new course at Indiana University called “Pleasure, Pain, and Peak Oil.” I cr...
| Published in: | Journal of the American Academy of Religion |
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| Subtitles: | Roundtable on climate destiabilization and the study of religion |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: | © The Author 2015. Published by Oxford University Press, on behalf of the American Academy of Religion. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com - IN THE FALL OF 2012, I introduced a new course at Indiana University called “Pleasure, Pain, and Peak Oil.” I created this course after spending a few months immersed in the distressing literature on global resource depletion and climate change. The class is centered on the question of what it means to live “the good life” in an era of energy descent and impending catastrophic climate disruption. The reference to pleasure and pain is meant to highlight what I see as a pressing need to reevaluate our culture's dominant notions of happiness and convenience—or what Rob Dietz aptly calls “the tyranny of comfort” in our lives (2011). What are we sacrificing in order to maintain the status quo of our supposedly good lives?... |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4585 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: American Academy of Religion, Journal of the American Academy of Religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jaarel/lfv026 |