20th century environmentalist
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american environmentalism
american religious history
Author_Evan Berry
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christianity
environmental historians
environmental history
environmental science
environmentalism
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gilded age environmentalism
gilded age religion
history
human ecology
nature and science
progressive era environmentalism
progressive era religion
religion and nature
religious elements in environmentalism
religious environmentalism
religious studies
sacred space
scientists
Product details
- ISBN 9780520285736
- Weight: 408g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 21 Jul 2015
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Devoted to Nature explores the religious underpinnings of American environmentalism, tracing the theological character of American environmental thought from its Romantic foundations to contemporary nature spirituality. During the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era, religious sources were central to the formation of the American environmental imagination, shaping ideas about the natural world, establishing practices of engagement with environments and landscapes, and generating new modes of social and political interaction. Building on the work of seminal environmental historians who acknowledge the environmental movement's religious roots, Evan Berry offers a potent theoretical corrective to the narrative that explained the presence of religious elements in the movement well into the twentieth century. In particular, Berry argues that an explicitly Christian understanding of salvation underlies the movement's orientation toward the natural world.
Theologically derived concepts of salvation, redemption, and spiritual progress have not only provided the basic context for Americans' passion for nature but have also established the horizons of possibility within the national environmental imagination.
Evan Berry is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religion at American University and Codirector of its Ethics, Peace, and Global Affairs master's program.
