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Routledge Studies in Religion and Environment

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The Routledge Studies in Religion and Environment book series explores religious encounters with environmental challenges and strives to capture the ecological dimensions of religious life with empirical and theoretical sophistication.

5 Series Titles


Connecting Ecologies Integrating Responses to the Global Challenge

Connecting Ecologies: Integrating Responses to the Global Challenge

1st Edition

Edited By Patrick Riordan, Gavin Flood
December 26, 2025

Connecting Ecologies focuses on the environmental aspects of Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si’ and the challenge to care for our common home. It considers how best to devise and implement the new societal models needed to tackle the ecological problems facing the world today. The book addresses ...

Multicultural and Religious Perspectives on Protecting the Environment, the Biosphere, and Biodiversity

Multicultural and Religious Perspectives on Protecting the Environment, the Biosphere, and Biodiversity

1st Edition

Edited By Joseph Tham, John Lunstroth, Sameer Advani
September 30, 2025

This thought-provoking volume unites bioethics experts from seven major world religions—Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Daoism, Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism—alongside secular thinkers to explore environmental protection through the lens of the UNESCO Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights....

Weathering the Reformation Climate and Religion in Early Sixteenth-Century Strasbourg

Weathering the Reformation: Climate and Religion in Early Sixteenth-Century Strasbourg

1st Edition

By Linnéa Rowlatt
September 29, 2025

Weathering the Reformation explores the role of the Little Ice Age in early modern Christian culture and considers climate as a contributing factor in the Protestant Reform. The book focuses on religious narratives from Strasbourg between 1509 and 1541, pivotal years during which the European ...

Religious Environmental Activism Emerging Conflicts and Tensions in Earth Stewardship

Religious Environmental Activism: Emerging Conflicts and Tensions in Earth Stewardship

1st Edition

Edited By Jens Köhrsen, Julia Blanc, Fabian Huber
August 26, 2024

This volume explores how religious and spiritual actors engage for environmental protection and fight against climate change. Climate change and sustainability are increasingly prominent topics among religious and spiritual groups. Different faith traditions have developed "green" theologies, ...

Church, Cosmovision and the Environment Religion and Social Conflict in Contemporary Latin America

Church, Cosmovision and the Environment: Religion and Social Conflict in Contemporary Latin America

1st Edition

Edited By Evan Berry, Robert Albro
August 14, 2020

Though currently only partially understood, evolving interactions among Latin American communities of faith, governments, and civil societies are a key feature of the popular mobilizations and policy debates about environmental issues in the region. This edited collection describes and analyses ...

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