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\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow can religion help to understand and contend with the challenges of climate change?\u003c/p\u003e \u003c/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnderstanding Climate Change through Religious Lifeworld\u003c/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e \u003c/i\u003eedited by David Haberman, presents a unique collection of essays that detail how the effects of human-related climate change are actively reshaping religious ideas and practices, even as religious groups and communities endeavor to bring their traditions to bear on mounting climate challenges.\u003c/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePeople of faith from the low-lying islands of the South Pacific to the glacial regions of the Himalayas are influencing how their communities understand earthly problems and develop meaningful responses to them. This collection focuses on a variety of different aspects of this critical interaction, including the role of religion in ongoing debates about climate change, religious sources of environmental knowledge and how this knowledge informs community responses to climate change, and the ways that climate change is in turn driving religious change.\u003c/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUnderstanding Climate Change through Religious Lifeworlds offers a transnational view of how religion reconciles the concepts of the global and the local and influences the challenges of climate change.\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/p\u003e |
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