Climate, catastrophe, and faith: how changes in climate drive religious upheaval

The world has repeatedly suffered severe climate-driven shocks, which have resulted in famine, disease, violence, social upheaval, and mass migration. Such episodes have often been understood in religious terms, through the language of apocalypse, millennium, and Judgment. And they have frequently h...

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Main Author: Jenkins, Philip 1952- (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Oxford Oxford University Press USA- OSO 2021
In:Year: 2021
Reviews:[Rezension von: Jenkins, Philip, 1952-, Climate, catastrophe, and faith] (2023) (Brueggemann, Walter, 1933 -)
[Rezension von: Jenkins, Philip, 1952-, Climate, catastrophe, and faith] (2022) (Jenkins, Willis, 1975 -)
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Climatic change / Religion
Further subjects:B Climatic changes-Religious aspects
B Electronic books
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Parallel Edition:Non-electronic
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Summary:The world has repeatedly suffered severe climate-driven shocks, which have resulted in famine, disease, violence, social upheaval, and mass migration. Such episodes have often been understood in religious terms, through the language of apocalypse, millennium, and Judgment. And they have frequently had real religious consequences, for instance by spawning new religious movements and revivals, or driving the persecution of religious minorities. Philip Jenkins shows how climate change has redrawn the world's religious maps, and how man-made climate change is likely to do so once again.
Cover -- Climate, Catastrophe, and Faith -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Note on Dates -- Acknowledgments -- 1. From Disaster to Belief -- 2. Forcing Climate -- 3. Ages of Gold -- 4. God's Anger and the Demons Within -- 5. After Darkness, Light -- 6. A Faded Sun and a Wider World -- 7. Who Can Stand Before His Cold? -- 8. Darkening Heavens and a New World -- 9. A Warming World -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index.
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ISBN:0197506364