Climate Politics and the Power of Religion
By Evan Berry, Andrew Thompson, Ken Conca and
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How does our faith affect how we think about and respond to climate change?
Climate Politics and the Power of Religion is an edited collection that explores the diverse ways that religion shapes climate politics at the local, national, and international levels. Drawing on case studies from across the globe, it stands at the intersection of religious studies, environment policy, and global politics.
From small island nations confronting sea-level rise and intensifying tropical storms to high-elevation communities in the Andes and Himalayas wrestling with accelerating glacial melt, there is tremendous variation in the ways that societies draw on religion to understand and contend with climate change.
Climate Politics and the Power of Religion offers 10 timely case studies that demonstrate how different communities render climate change within their own moral vocabularies and how such moral claims find purchase in activism and public debates about climate policy. Whether it be Hindutva policymakers in India, curanderos in Peru, or working-class people's concerns about the transgressions of petroleum extraction in Trinidad—religion affects how they all are making sense of and responding to this escalating global catastrophe.
Andrew Thompson
Dr Andrew Thompson is a Principal Research Fellow and Associate Professor at Orygen, the Centre for Youth Mental Health at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He is the lead psychiatrist for the EPPIC early psychosis service and the National headspace Early Psychosis program in Australia and is currently head of clinical psychosis research at Orygen. He also retains a position as Associate Professor at the University of Warwick in the UK. Andrew trained in medicine at the University of Oxford and London and in psychiatry in Nottingham and Bristol. He has an MD in clinical psychiatry from the University of London. He has worked in early psychosis practice and research for over 15 years in both the UK and Australia. He was previously clinical lead for the PACE at risk for psychosis clinic in Melbourne and has been involved in a number of research projects through this clinic and through his work at the University of Bristol and the University of Warwick. Andrew’s research interests include clinical risk factors for the development of psychosis and psychotic symptoms, novel treatments (including technology) in emerging or early psychosis, predictors of outcome in early psychosis and systems of care and prevention approaches in youth mental health.
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