The Greening of American Catholicism: Identity, Conversion, and Continuity

Environmental concern is emerging in all major American religious denominations, a process known as the “greening of religion.” The dynamics of a greening process illustrate how individuals incorporate emergent social concerns into their existing moral worldviews and show the ways in which religious...

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Main Author: Warner, Keith Douglass (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Cambridge University Press [2008]
In: Religion and American culture
Year: 2008, Volume: 18, Issue: 1, Pages: 113-142
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