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Understanding Climate Change through Religious Lifeworlds: Contents

Understanding Climate Change through Religious Lifeworlds

Contents

CONTENTS

Preface

Introduction: Multiple Perspectives on an Increasingly Uncertain World / David L. Haberman

PART I. Recombinant Responses

1. Climate Change Never Travels Alone: Oceanian Stories / Cecilie Rubow

2. Climate Change, Moral Meteorology, and Local Measures at Quyllurit’i, a High Andean Shrine / Guillermo Salas Carreño

3. Religious Explanations for Coastal Erosion in Narikoso, Fiji / Amanda Bertana

PART II. Local Knowledge

4. “Nature Can Heal Itself”: Divine Encounter, Lived Experience, and Individual Interpretations of Climatic Change / Georgina Drew

5. Maya Cosmology and Contesting Climate Change in Mesoamerica / C. Mathews (Matt) Samson

6. Anthropogenic Climate Change, Anxiety, and the Sacred: The Role of Ecological Calendars in the Pamir Mountains of Central Asia / Karim-Aly S. Kassam

PART III. Loss, Anxiety, and Doubt

7. The Vanishing of Father White Glacier: Ritual Revival and Temporalities of Climate Change in the Himalayas / Karine Gagné

8. Loss and Recovery in the Himalayas: Climate-Change Anxieties and the Case of Large Cardamom in North Sikkim / Mabel Denzin Gergan

PART IV. Religious Transformations

9. Angry Gods and Raging Rivers: The Changing Climate of the Central Himalaya / David L. Haberman

10. Recasting the Sacred: Offering Ceremonies, Glacier Melt, and Climate Change in the Peruvian Andes / Karsten Paerregaard

Conclusion: Religion and Climate Change: An Emerging Research Agenda / Willis Jenkins

Index

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