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• W4379932251 abstract "Worldviews on Fire: Understanding the Inspiration for Congregational Religious Environmentalism Erin Lothes Biviano Addressing participants at an Alliance of Religions and Conservation conference in Nairobi during the fall of 2012, Mr. Mounkaila Goumandakoye, the African Regional Director of the United Nations' Environment Programme's Office for Africa, acknowledged that the commitment of faith groups to heal the earth is one of the “driving forces for positive change as humanity is grappling with challenges of colossal consequences.” Mr. Goumandakoye is not the first global leader to place hope in faith groups. Ban Ki Moon, the former Secretary General of the United Nations, made a similar plea before the Copenhagen climate summit of 2009, noting that religious groups “can have the largest, widest and deepest reach” on the summit's impact. Faith‐based environmentalists indeed can be a powerful force for environmental leadership. But what are the driving forces that spark their own commitments and actions? Why do some commit their hearts and energies to the earth, while others remain unconcerned, or devote their time to more traditional religious causes? Understanding the beliefs and motivations of faith‐based environmentalists is critical to leverage this important global movement. As Jeffrey Sachs, economist, United Nations advisor, and author of The End of Poverty, acknowledged, “scientific, engineering, and organizational solutions are not enough. Societies must be motivated and empowered to adopt the needed changes.” Religious energy supplies some of those motivations. Those motivations deserve more detailed explanations. In recent decades, scholarship within the field of religion and ecology has explored the textual and symbolic foundations of religious reverence and concern for the environment, and studied religiously grounded sustainable practices. Religiously inspired environmental action has grown nationally and internationally. Still, while bishops, imams, rabbis, and ministers have issued scores of official environmental statements, and theologians have written volumes of essays, religious teachings do not necessarily translate into action. Environmentalists share the pew or the prayer mat with people for whom climate change is not a burning issue. This gap in the often presumed link between beliefs and behavior demands a more critical, empirically rooted understanding of how religious ideals translate into behavior change. Following in the spirit of an emerging, pragmatic line of inquiry, I conducted twenty‐nine focus groups with sustainability committees and some individuals at American faith congregations of varying traditions to examine the core factors driving their activism. My research shows that scientific literacy is an essential part of the consciousness of active faith‐based environmentalists. Their worldviews are marked by awareness of the multiple interdependencies in which we live. These deeply interdependent and scientifically literate worldviews engage a strength of religious traditions: in particular, strong commitments to social justice and the moral energy to work toward it. Their interdependent worldviews and commitments to social justice together spark a potent motivator—the consciousness of participating in a world in which all actions affect others. In other words, they are galvanized by what I am calling moral globalization. The practical power of moral globalization goes along with new doctrinal syntheses of traditional beliefs and environmental concerns. But the faith‐based environmentalists with whom I spoke do not feel they are leaving their traditional religions behind to institute new forms of “dark green,” post‐modern, post‐theistic religion. This is partly a result of my research design, which largely, but not exclusively, targeted mainstream congregations. While I recognize that emerging forms of nature religion are also significant loci of cultural reinterpretation and environmental action, I chose mainstream congregations precisely to explore how established religious views adapted to new ecological realities. The fascinating religious phenomenon that emerged from this research is novelty as loyalty: loyalty to a tradition that insists the tradition change in response to ecological awareness. Participants felt that the core values of their tradition demanded a new green mission and new doctrinal syntheses. They insisted on reinterpreting core values to express the tradition's longstanding values appropriately in a changing world. Convinced that their traditions require concern for the neighbor who is recognized certainly in the suffering human, but also in manifold ecologies and beings, they perceived a new moral obligation to take environmental action. In this essay, I will explore the core..." @default.
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• W4379932251 title "Worldviews on Fire: Understanding the Inspiration for Congregational Religious Environmentalism" @default.
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