Introduction: religion and environmental conflict in Latin America / Robert Albro, Evan Berrypart -- Church advocacy in Latin America: integrating environment in the struggle for justice and human rights / Guillermo Kerber -- Transnational religious advocacy networks in Latin America and beyond / Evan Berry -- The Lausanne Movement, Holistic Mission and the introduction of Creation Care in Latin America and Argentina / Hans Geir Aasmundsen -- Marina Silva: a Brazilian case study in religion, politics, and human rights / Paul Preston -- Bolivia's indigenous foreign policy: vivir bien and global climate change ethics / Robert Albro -- Relatives of the living forest: the social relation to nature underlying ecological action in Amazonian Kichwa communities / Tod D. Swanson -- Trickster ecology: climate change and conservation pluralism in Guatemala's Maya lowlands / Liza Grandia -- The winds of Oaxaca: renewable energy, climate change mitigation, and the ethics of transition / Cymene Howe -- Articulating indigenous ecologies: the Indigenous Pastoral in the Huasteca, Mexico / Kristina Tiedje -- Religion and cosmovisions within environmental conflicts and the challenge of ontological openings / Eduardo Gudynas.
Summary:
Though currently only partially understood, evolving interactions among Latin American communities of faith, governments, and civil societies are a key feature of the popular mobilizations and policy debates about environmental issues in the region. This edited collection describes and analyses multiple types of religious engagement with environmental concerns and conflicts seen in modern Latin American democracies.0This volume contributes to scholarship on the intersections of religion with environmental conflict in a number of ways. Firstly, it provides comparative analysis of the manner in which diverse religious actors are currently participating in transnational, national, and local advocacy in places such as, Peru, Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Ecuador, Guatemala, and Mexico. It also considers the diversity of an often plural religious engagement with advocacy, including Catholic, Evangelical and Pentecostal perspectives alongside the effects of indigenous cosmological ideas. Finally, this book explores the specific religious sources of seemingly unlikely new alliances and novel articulations of rights, social justice, and ethics for the environmental concerns of Latin America. 0The relationship between religion and environmental issues is an increasingly important topic in the conversations around ecology and climate change. This book is, therefore, a pertinent and topical work for any academic working in Religious Studies, Environmental Studies, and Latin American Studies.
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