Religious Agrarianism and the Return of Place, livre ebook
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164
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English
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Ebooks
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2017
Écrit par
Todd Levasseur
Publié par
State University of New York Press
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164
pages
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English
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Ebooks
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2017
Description
Gold Medalist, 2018 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the Religion CategoryFinalist for the 2017 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Religion category
Writing at the interface of religion and nature theory, US religious history, and environmental ethics, Todd LeVasseur presents the case for the emergence of a nascent "religious agrarianism" within certain subsets of Judaism and Christianity in the United States. Adherents of this movement, who share an environmental concern about the modern industrial food economy and a religiously grounded commitment to the values of locality, health, and justice, are creating new models for sustainable agrarian lifeways and practices. LeVasseur explores this greening of US religion through an extensive engagement with the scholarly literature on lived religion, network theory, and grounded theory, as well as through ethnographic case studies of two intentional communities at the vanguard of this movement: Koinonia Farm, an ecumenical Christian lay monastic community, and Hazon, a progressive Jewish environmental group.
Acknowledgments
Preface
1. Sustainable Religion, Sustainable Ethics?
2. Koinonia and Christian Religious Agrarianism
3. Hazon and Jewish Religious Agrarianism
4. The Local ([Farm] Land)
5. Concepts of Health
6. Justice for All: From Soil to Worker, from Individual to Community
7. Conclusion: A Harvest of Ideas
Appendix
Notes
References
Index
Writing at the interface of religion and nature theory, US religious history, and environmental ethics, Todd LeVasseur presents the case for the emergence of a nascent "religious agrarianism" within certain subsets of Judaism and Christianity in the United States. Adherents of this movement, who share an environmental concern about the modern industrial food economy and a religiously grounded commitment to the values of locality, health, and justice, are creating new models for sustainable agrarian lifeways and practices. LeVasseur explores this greening of US religion through an extensive engagement with the scholarly literature on lived religion, network theory, and grounded theory, as well as through ethnographic case studies of two intentional communities at the vanguard of this movement: Koinonia Farm, an ecumenical Christian lay monastic community, and Hazon, a progressive Jewish environmental group.
Acknowledgments
Preface
1. Sustainable Religion, Sustainable Ethics?
2. Koinonia and Christian Religious Agrarianism
3. Hazon and Jewish Religious Agrarianism
4. The Local ([Farm] Land)
5. Concepts of Health
6. Justice for All: From Soil to Worker, from Individual to Community
7. Conclusion: A Harvest of Ideas
Appendix
Notes
References
Index
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Publié par
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Date de parution
27 octobre 2017
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EAN13
9781438467740
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Langue
English
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