Climate change and other global environmental changes deserve attention by the the humanities - they are caused mainly by human attitudes and activities and feed back to human societies. Focussing on religion allows for analysis of various human modes of perception, action and thought in relation to
Religion in Environmental and Climate Change: Suffering, Values, Lifestyles
β Scribed by Dieter Gerten & Sigurd Bergmann
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Academic
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 289
- Category
- Library
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