Religious Environmental Activism: Emerging Conflicts and Tensions in Earth Stewardship

Cover\nHalf Title\nSeries\nTitle\nCopyright\nContents\nList of Tables\nForeword\nList of Contributors\n1 Tensions in Religious Environmentalism\nPart I Intradenominational Tensions\n	2 From Global Goal to Local Practice: Potential Lines of Tension in Religious Environmentalism in Catholic Religious Orders\n	3 Cosmological Tensions: Biodynamic Agriculture’s Anthropocentrism and Its Contestation\n	4 The Slow Greening of Established Churches in Switzerland: Tensions Between Local Parishes and Church Head Organizations\nPart II Interdenominational Tensions\n	5 Halal Wastewater Recycling: Environmental Solution or Religious Complication?\n	6 From “Why Should?” to “Why Do?” Tensions in the Christian Context While Acting for the Environment\n	7 The Dissenting Voices: Perception of Climate Change and the Church’s Responsibility in Nigeria\nPart III Interreligious Tensions\n	8 Environmentalism in the Religious Field: The Role of the Establishment for Competition in Switzerland\n	9 “What does religion have to do with nature conservation?” Investigating the Tensions in an Interreligious Nature Conservation Project in Germany\n	10 Finding Ubuntu in the Bible: How the Zion Christian Church in South Africa Relates to Concepts of Ecology in African Traditional Religions\nPart IV Religious-Societal Tensions\n	11 Kosher Electricity and Sustainability: Building Block or Stumbling Stone?\n	12 The Negotiation of Self-Identity in Swiss Biodynamic Wine-Crafting: Facets of a Sentient and Practitioner-Based Sustainable Agronomy\n	13 The Green, the Secular, and the Religious: The Legitimacy of Religious Environmentalism in Global Climate Politics\n	14 Climate and Covenant: A Case Study of the Functions, Goals, and Tensions of Faith at the 23rd Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change\n	15 Environmental Action Within Local Faith Communities: Navigating Between High Expectations and Practical Action\nIndex