Constructing the Environment as a Faith Issue

This paper seeks to understand how the environment is constructed as a faith issue by environmental coordinators and activists in the Lutheran Church of Sweden. The main results are: 1. On the whole, respondents do not feel environmentalism emanates out of their religious engagement, but that it is...

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Main Author: Lundberg, Anders Per (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2017
In: Worldviews
Year: 2017, Volume: 21, Issue: 2, Pages: 152-174
Further subjects:B Lutheran Church of Sweden environmentalism eco-theology religious performance religious function
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)

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