| Series |
SUNY series on religion and the environment
SUNY series on religion and the environment. ^A720314
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| Contents |
Sustainable Religion, Sustainable Ethics? -- Koinonia and Christian Religious Agrarianism -- Hazon and Jewish Religious Agrarianism -- The Local ([Farm] Land) -- Concepts of Health -- Justice for All : From Soil to Worker, from Individual to Community -- Conclusion : A Harvest of Ideas. |
| Summary |
Writing at the interface of religion and nature theory, US religious history, and environmental ethics, Todd LeVasseur presents the case for the emergence of a nascent ?religious agrarianism? within certain subsets of Judaism and Christianity in the United States. Adherents of this movement, who share an environmental concern about the modern industrial food economy and a religiously grounded commitment to the values of locality, health, and justice, are creating new models for sustainable agrarian lifeways and practices. LeVasseur explores this greening of US religion through an extensive engagement with the scholarly literature on lived religion, network theory, and grounded theory, as well as through ethnographic case studies of two intentional communities at the vanguard of this movement: Koinonia Farm, an ecumenical Christian lay monastic community, and Hazon, a progressive Jewish environmental group. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-249) and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: LeVasseur, Todd, author. Religious agrarianism and the return of place Albany, NY : State University of New York, 2017 9781438467740 |
| LCCN | 2017000316 |
| ISBN | 9781438467733 hardcover alkaline paper |
| ISBN | 1438467737 hardcover alkaline paper |
