Understanding Climate Change Through Religious Lifeworlds

David Haberman is Professor of Religious Studies at Indiana University. He is author of River of Love in an Age of Pollution and People Trees: Worship of Trees in Northern India.

Preface Introduction: Multiple Perspectives on an Increasingly Uncertain World Recombinant Responses 1. Climate Change Never Travels Alone 2. Climate Change, Moral Meteorology and Local Measures at Quyllurit'i, a High Andean Shrine 3. Religious Explanations for Coastal Erosion in Narikoso, Fiji Local Knowledge 4. "Nature Can Heal Itself" 5. Maya Cosmology and Contesting Climate Change in Mesoamerica 6. Anthropogenic Climate Change, Anxiety, and the Sacred Loss, Anxiety, and Doubt 7. The Vanishing of Father White Glacier 8. Loss and Recovery in the Himalayas Religious Transformations 9. Angry Gods and Raging Rivers 10. Recasting the Sacred Conclusion: Religion and Climate Change List of Contributors Index

This anthology will be valuable for scholars interested in religion, climate communication, and Indigenous cultures. The book, or selected chapters from it, would be appropriate for upper-level undergraduate or graduate courses in anthropology, area studies, environmental studies, and religion. - Cybelle Shattuck - Western Michigan University (H-Environment)