Climate, catastrophe, and faith : how changes in climate drive religious upheaval /
The world has repeatedly suffered severe climate-driven shocks, which have resulted in famine, disease, violence, social upheaval, and mass migration. Such episodes have often been understood in religious terms, through the language of apocalypse, millennium, and Judgment. And they have frequently h...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2021]
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | The world has repeatedly suffered severe climate-driven shocks, which have resulted in famine, disease, violence, social upheaval, and mass migration. Such episodes have often been understood in religious terms, through the language of apocalypse, millennium, and Judgment. And they have frequently had real religious consequences, for instance by spawning new religious movements and revivals, or driving the persecution of religious minorities. Philip Jenkins shows how climate change has redrawn the world's religious maps, and how man-made climate change is likely to do so once again. |
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| Item Description: | Includes index. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 257 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0197506364 9780197506387 0197506380 9780197506363 9780197506370 0197506372 |