Title Church, cosmovision, and the environment : religion and social conflict in contemporary Latin America / edited by Evan Berry and Robert Albro

Published London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018

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Description 1 online resource Series Routledge studies in religion and environment Routledge studies in religion and environment Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: religion and environmental conflict in Latin America; PART 1 Ecclesial articulations of environmental rights and justice; 2 Church advocacy in Latin America: integrating environment in the struggle for justice and human rights; 3 Transnational religious advocacy networks in Latin America and beyond; 4 The Lausanne Movement, Holistic Mission and the introduction of Creation Care in Latin America and Argentina; 5 Marina Silva: a Brazilian case study in religion, politics, and human rights PART 2 Cosmovision and indigenous expressions of environmental rights and justice6 Bolivia's indigenous foreign policy: vivir bien and global climate change ethics; 7 Relatives of the living forest: the social relation to nature underlying ecological action in Amazonian Kichwa communities; 8 Trickster ecology: climate change and conservation pluralism in Guatemala's Maya Lowlands; 9 The winds of Oaxaca: renewable energy, climate change mitigation, and the ethics of transition; 10 Articulating indigenous ecologies: the Indigenous Pastoral in the Huasteca, Mexico 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. The 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. This 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on print version record Subject Ecotheology -- Latin America Human ecology -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. Environmentalism -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. RELIGION -- Christian Life -- Social Issues. RELIGION -- Christianity -- General. Environmentalism -- Religious aspects -- Christianity Ecotheology Human ecology -- Religious aspects -- Christianity Latin America Form Electronic book Author Berry, Evan, 1977- editor. Albro, Robert, editor. LC no. 2020691926 ISBN 9781315103785 1315103788 9781351596114 135159611X 9781351596121 1351596128 9781351596107 1351596101

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