Todd LeVasseur and Anna Peterson (eds.), Religion and the Ecological Crisis: The ‘Lynn White Thesis' at Fifty
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1558/jsrnc.38199Keywords:
astrology, cosmologies, cultural understandingAbstract
Todd LeVasseur and Anna Peterson (eds.), Religion and the Ecological Crisis: The ‘Lynn
White Thesis' at Fifty (New York and London: Routledge, 2017), 205 pp., $140.00 (hbk),
ISBN: 978-1-138-64412-0.
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Djupe, Paul A., and Patrick Kieran Hunt. 2009. ‘Beyond the Lynn White Thesis: Congregational Effects on Environmental Concern’, Journal for the Scienti?c Study of Religion 48.4: 670-86. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-5906.2009.01472.x.
Dunlap, Thomas R. 2004. Faith in Nature: Environmentalism as Religious Quest (Seattle: University of Washington Press).
Guth, James. 1995. ‘Faith and the Environment: Religious Beliefs and Attitudes on Environmental Policy’, American Journal of Political Science 39.2: 364-82. Doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/2111617.
Hagevi, Magnus. 2014. ‘Religion and the Environmental Opinion in 22 Countries: A Comparative Study’, International Review of Sociology 24.1: 91-109. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/03906701.2014.894333.
Jenkins, Willis. 2009. ‘After Lynn White: Religious Ethics and Environmental Problems’, Journal of Religious Ethics 37.2: 283-309. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9795.2009.00387.x.
Jordan III, William R. 2003. The Sun?ower Forest: Ecological Restoration and the New Communion with Nature (Berkeley: University of California Press).
Minteer, Ben A., and Robert E. Manning. 2005. ‘An Appraisal of the Critique of Anthropocentrism and the Three Lesser Known Themes in Lynn White’s “The Historical Roots of our Ecologic Crisis”’, Organization and Environment 18.2: 163-76. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/1086026605276196.
Riley, Matthew T. 2014. ‘The Democratic Roots of our Ecologic Crisis: Lynn White, Biodemocracy, and the Earth Charter’, Zygon 49.4: 938-48. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/zygo.12139.
Riley, Matthew T. 2016. ‘Reading Beyond Roots: The Theological and Weberian Aspects of Lynn White’s Scholarship’ (PhD diss., Drew University).
Stoll, Mark. 1997. Protestantism, Capitalism and Nature in America (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press).
Stoll, Mark. 2015. Inherit the Holy Mountain: Religion and the Rise of American Environmentalism (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
Taylor, Bron. 2016. ‘The Greening of Religion Hypothesis (Part One): From Lynn White Jr and Claims That Religions Can Promote Environmentally Destructive Attitudes and Behaviors to Assertions They Are Becoming Environmentally Friendly’, Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture 10.3: 268-305. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1558/jsrnc.v10i3.29010.
Taylor, Bron, Gretel Van Wieren, and Bernard Zaleha. 2016. ‘The Greening of Religion Hypothesis (Part Two): Assessing the Data from Lynn White, Jr, to Pope Francis’, Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture 10.3: 306-78. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1558/jsrnc.v10i3.29011.
White, Lynn Townsend Jr. 1967. ‘The Historical Roots of our Ecologic Crisis’, Science 155: 1203-207. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.155.3767.1203.
Whitney, Elspeth. 2015. ‘Lynn White Jr.’s “The Historical Roots of our Ecologic Crisis” After 50 Years’, History Compass 13.8: 396-410. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/hic3.12254.
Djupe, Paul A., and Patrick Kieran Hunt. 2009. ‘Beyond the Lynn White Thesis: Congregational Effects on Environmental Concern’, Journal for the Scienti?c Study of Religion 48.4: 670-86. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-5906.2009.01472.x.
Dunlap, Thomas R. 2004. Faith in Nature: Environmentalism as Religious Quest (Seattle: University of Washington Press).
Guth, James. 1995. ‘Faith and the Environment: Religious Beliefs and Attitudes on Environmental Policy’, American Journal of Political Science 39.2: 364-82. Doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/2111617.
Hagevi, Magnus. 2014. ‘Religion and the Environmental Opinion in 22 Countries: A Comparative Study’, International Review of Sociology 24.1: 91-109. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/03906701.2014.894333.
Jenkins, Willis. 2009. ‘After Lynn White: Religious Ethics and Environmental Problems’, Journal of Religious Ethics 37.2: 283-309. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9795.2009.00387.x.
Jordan III, William R. 2003. The Sun?ower Forest: Ecological Restoration and the New Communion with Nature (Berkeley: University of California Press).
Minteer, Ben A., and Robert E. Manning. 2005. ‘An Appraisal of the Critique of Anthropocentrism and the Three Lesser Known Themes in Lynn White’s “The Historical Roots of our Ecologic Crisis”’, Organization and Environment 18.2: 163-76. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/1086026605276196.
Riley, Matthew T. 2014. ‘The Democratic Roots of our Ecologic Crisis: Lynn White, Biodemocracy, and the Earth Charter’, Zygon 49.4: 938-48. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/zygo.12139.
Riley, Matthew T. 2016. ‘Reading Beyond Roots: The Theological and Weberian Aspects of Lynn White’s Scholarship’ (PhD diss., Drew University).
Stoll, Mark. 1997. Protestantism, Capitalism and Nature in America (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press).
Stoll, Mark. 2015. Inherit the Holy Mountain: Religion and the Rise of American Environmentalism (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
Taylor, Bron. 2016. ‘The Greening of Religion Hypothesis (Part One): From Lynn White Jr and Claims That Religions Can Promote Environmentally Destructive Attitudes and Behaviors to Assertions They Are Becoming Environmentally Friendly’, Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture 10.3: 268-305. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1558/jsrnc.v10i3.29010.
Taylor, Bron, Gretel Van Wieren, and Bernard Zaleha. 2016. ‘The Greening of Religion Hypothesis (Part Two): Assessing the Data from Lynn White, Jr, to Pope Francis’, Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture 10.3: 306-78. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1558/jsrnc.v10i3.29011.
White, Lynn Townsend Jr. 1967. ‘The Historical Roots of our Ecologic Crisis’, Science 155: 1203-207. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.155.3767.1203.
Whitney, Elspeth. 2015. ‘Lynn White Jr.’s “The Historical Roots of our Ecologic Crisis” After 50 Years’, History Compass 13.8: 396-410. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/hic3.12254.
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Veldman, R. (2019). Todd LeVasseur and Anna Peterson (eds.), Religion and the Ecological Crisis: The ‘Lynn White Thesis’ at Fifty. Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, 13(1), 101-107. https://doi.org/10.1558/jsrnc.38199
