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america
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Author_Amanda J. Baugh
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christian
christianity
classism
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environment
environmentalism
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ethics
ethnic identity
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go green
green
green divide
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green religion
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race
racial identity
religion
religious beliefs
religious environmentalism
religious leaders
research
scholarship
social class
theology
twenty first century
united states
urban
white
white elite
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- ISBN 9780520291171
- Weight: 318g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 04 Oct 2016
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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American environmentalism historically has been associated with the interests of white elites. Yet religious leaders in the twenty-first century have helped instill concern about the earth among groups diverse in religion, race, ethnicity, and class. How did that happen and what are the implications? Building on scholarship that provides theological and ethical resources to support the "greening" of religion, God and the Green Divide examines religious environmentalism as it actually happens in the daily lives of urban Americans. Baugh demonstrates how complex dynamics related to race, ethnicity, and class factor into decisions to "go green." By carefully examining negotiations of racial and ethnic identities as central to the history of religious environmentalism, this work complicates assumptions that religious environmentalism is a direct expression of theology, ethics, or religious beliefs.
Amanda J. Baugh is Assistant Professor of Religion and Environment at California State University, Northridge.
