Religion and Sustainability: Interreligious Resources, Interdisciplinary Responses: Intersection of Sustainability Studies and Religion, Theology, Philosophy

This volume explores the intersection of sustainability studies and religion, featuring contributions from scholars across disciplines. It highlights the role of humanistic elements in establishing sustainable ways of thinking, feeling, and acting, and discusses topics such as empowering women, promoting interreligious peace, and decolonizing landscapes. Coverage integrates various religious and theological perspectives, including Buddhism, Judaism, Hinduism, Islam, and Christianity. The book aims to foster transformative change and provide new principles, practices, ethics, and insights for researching the social scientific impacts of religion on sustainability.

Format: Hardback
Length: 323 pages
Publication date: 10 May 2022
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG

This comprehensive volume engages sustainability studies in a dynamic dialogue with actions, practices, and worldviews from religion and theology that align with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Spanning over 30 chapters authored by scholars from diverse disciplines, including economics, ethics, theology, sociology, ritual studies, and visual culture, this interdisciplinary content offers fresh perspectives for mitigating the devastating impact of unsustainable financial, societal, racial, geopolitical, and cultural relationships on the Earth's ecosystems. The chapters demonstrate how humanistic elements can empower individuals to adopt sustainable ways of thinking, feeling, and acting, encompassing the aesthetic and emotive dimensions of life. The contributors explore a range of critical topics, such as empowering women and girls to reverse climate change, nurturing interreligious peace, decolonizing landscapes, and promoting horticulture, ecovillages, equity, and animal ethics. Coverage encompasses a diverse array of religious and theological perspectives, including Buddhism, Judaism, Hinduism, Islam, Christianity, and other traditions.

To achieve the restoration and flourishing of the Earth's biosphere, human societies must undergo a transformative reimagining and reordering in terms of economic, cultural, religious, racial, and social equitability. This volume showcases transformative paradigms aimed at fostering such change. It introduces new principles, practices, ethics, and insights to the discourse, enriching the understanding of the ethical, moral, social, cultural, psychological, developmental, and other social scientific impacts of religion on the key markers of sustainability.

This book will be of immense interest to students, scholars, and professionals engaged in research on the ethical, moral, social, cultural, psychological, developmental, and other social scientific dimensions of religion's influence on sustainability. It serves as a valuable resource for anyone seeking to bridge the gap between theory and practice, promoting a more holistic and sustainable approach to addressing global challenges.

Weight: 852g
Dimension: 254 x 178 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783030793005
Edition number: 1st ed. 2022