TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ellingson,Stephen
TI  - To care for creation: the emergence of the religious environmental movement 
SN  - 9780226367415
AV  - BT695.5 .E55 2016eb
U1  - 201/.77 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Chicago, London
PB  - The University of Chicago Press
KW  - Environmentalism
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Ecotheology
KW  - Nature
KW  - Human ecology
KW  - Écothéologie
KW  - Aspect religieux
KW  - Écologie humaine
KW  - BODY, MIND & SPIRIT
KW  - Gaia & Earth Energies
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Christianity
KW  - General
KW  - fast
KW  - religion, religious studies, faith, belief, environment, environmental, environmentalism, conservation, sociology, academic, scholarly, research, observation, megachurch, pastor, mark driscoll, green, ethics, morals, controversial, institutional, culture, cultural, secular, entrepreneur, activist, activism, theology, theological, ethical, symbolic, tradition, traditional, argument, nature, natural world, ecotheology, christian, christianity, cooperation, strategy
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; A greener faith -- The emergence of the religious environmental movement -- Mission, strategy, and the search for legitimacy -- Creating religious environmental traditions -- Coalition building and the politics of cooperation in the emergent movement -- Conclusions: embeddedness, strategic choices, and religious social movements
N2  - Controversial megachurch pastor Mark Driscoll proclaimed from a conference stage in 2013, "I know who made the environment and he's coming back and going to burn it all up. So yes, I drive an SUV." The comment, which Driscoll later explained away as a joke, highlights what has been a long history of religious anti-environmentalism. Given how firmly entrenched this sentiment has been, surprising inroads have been made by a new movement with few financial resources, which is deeply committed to promoting green religious traditions and creating a new environmental ethic. To Care for Creation chronicles this movement and explains how it has emerged despite institutional and cultural barriers, as well as the hurdles posed by logic and practices that set religious environmental organizations apart from the secular movement. Ellingson takes a deep dive into the ways entrepreneurial activists tap into and improvise on a variety of theological, ethical, and symbolic traditions in order to issue a compelling call to arms that mobilizes religious audiences. Drawing on interviews with the leaders of more than sixty of these organizations, Ellingson deftly illustrates how activists borrow and rework resources from various traditions to create new meanings for religion, nature, and the religious person's duty to the natural world. (Publisher)
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