Liberating People, Planet, and Religion: Intersections of Ecology, Economics, and Christianity

Climate change poses a significant threat to life on Earth, requiring a re-examination of economic systems from an ecological perspective. Religion and ecology scholars emphasize the need for critical and constructive engagement with the religion, economy, and ecology nexus. Contributors to this volume argue that religious engagement, activism, resistance, and solidarity around issues of production and labor can help to address the urgency of climate change and the ongoing patterns of exploitation, oppression, and colonialism in current economic systems. They suggest that Christianity can reclaim latent theologies and religious practices that question the fundamental valuation of labor and extractive exploitation, and that economics can be re-informed by a valuation of the shared oikos and a just accounting of and renumeration for labor. Together, these approaches can help to achieve the flourishing of all people and the planet.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 272 pages
Publication date: 07 June 2024
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Climate change poses a significant threat to life on Earth, with the future of many species and humanity itself at stake. Ecological economists and religion and ecology scholars have emphasized the need to re-examine economic systems from an ecological perspective, challenging assumptions of unlimited growth and the maximization of shareholder profit. However, religious engagements with economy and ecology have often focused on individual morality, action, and agency at the level of consumption patterns, rather than addressing the root causes of exploitation, oppression, and colonialism in current economic systems. This volume calls for religious engagement, activism, resistance, and solidarity around issues of production and labor, recognizing that liberation of people and the planet are intertwined and can be accomplished only through collective action.

Weight: 372g
Dimension: 227 x 150 x 15 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781538194034