| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations |
| Series |
Suny series on religion and the environment |
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SUNY series on religion and the environment
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| Contents |
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Are US Religions Going Green? -- Faith Communities and Environmental Sustainability -- Religious Environmentalism -- The Academic Study of Religion and Ecology -- Religious Environmentalism in Practice -- A Case-Study Exploration of the Greening of Religion -- Key Terminology -- Case Selection -- Data Collection and Analysis -- An Overview of the Chapters -- Part I The Greening of Us Faith Communities -- Chapter One Genesis and Evolution of Fifteen Sustainability Initiatives |
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Overview of the Faith Communities -- Case Cluster I: Faith Communities with Organic Initiatives -- 1 Trinity Presbyterian Church (TPC*), Harrisonburg, Virginia Membership: 165 -- 2 Madison Christian Community (MCC), Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and United Church of Christ, Middleton, Wisconsin Membership: approximately 400 -- 3 Jewish Reconstructionist Congregation (JRC), Evanston, Illinois Membership: approximately 500 families -- 875 adults -- 4 First Parish Church of Newbury (FPN), United Church of Christ, Newbury, Massachusetts Membership: approximately 40 |
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5 Vineyard Church of Ann Arbor (VAA), Ann Arbor, Michigan Membership: approximately 600 -- 6 St. Thomas Aquinas Parish (STA), Palo Alto, California Membership: approximately 1,800 families -- Case Cluster II: Green Certified Faith Communities -- 7 First Universalist Church of Rockland (UUR), Rockland, Maine Membership: approximately 159 -- 8 Trinity Presbyterian Church (TNJ), East Brunswick, New Jersey Membership approx. 425 -- 9 Anshe Emeth Memorial Temple (AET), New Brunswick, New Jersey Membership: approximately 550 families |
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10 Temple Shalom (TS), Aberdeen, New Jersey Membership: approximately 300 families -- Case Cluster III: Monastic Case Sites -- 11 Congregation of St. Joseph at Nazareth (CJN), Sisters of St. Joseph, Kalamazoo, Michigan Membership: 191 sisters -- 12 Saint John's Abbey (SJA), Order of St. Benedict, Collegeville, Minnesota Membership: 153 monks -- 13 Villa Maria (VM), Sisters of the Humility of Mary, Villa Maria, Pennsylvania Membership: 158 sisters -- 14 Holy Wisdom Monastery (HWM), Benedictine Women of Madison, Madison, Wisconsin Membership: 3 sisters |
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350 lay members (Sunday Assembly attendees) -- 15 Our Lady of Angels Convent (OLA), Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia, Aston, Pennsylvania Membership: 450 sisters -- Conclusion: Faith Communities as Stewards of Spirit and Earth -- Chapter Two Many Paths to Sustainability: Cross-Case Analysis -- Triggers of Initiative Emergence -- 1 Faith Leader Prompt as Trigger -- 2 Local Environmental Threat as Trigger -- 3 Career-Related Trigger -- 4 Community Discernment Process as Trigger -- 5 External Opportunity as Trigger -- Grassroots Responses -- Organizational Leadership Responses |
| Summary |
"A cross-case analysis of fifteen faith communities striving to care for the earth and live more sustainably"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 11, 2021) |
| Subject |
Ecotheology -- United States -- Case studies
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Human ecology -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- Case studies
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Christian communities -- Case studies
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Christian communities
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Ecotheology
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Human ecology -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- History -- 21st century
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| Subject |
United States
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2020045643 |
| ISBN |
1438482000 |
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9781438482002 |
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