Praying and Campaigning with Environmental Christians Green Religion
This book presents an ethnographic study of environmental Christian networks involved in the climate and transition towns movements. Maria Nita examines the ways in which green Christians engage with their communities and networks, as well as other
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Praying and Campaigning with Environmental Christians
Maria Nita
Praying and Campaigning with Environmental Christians Green Religion and the Climate Movement
Maria Nita University of Wales Trinity St David
ISBN 978-1-137-60034-9 ISBN 978-1-137-60035-6 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-60035-6
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For Owain and Marinca
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The completion of this book would not have been possible without the contribution of the participants in my study, particularly the Green Christian network, to whom I am immensely grateful. I am also particularly indebted to Dr Marion Bowman, Prof Graham Harvey, Dr Dominic Corrywright, Dr Paul-Francois Tremlett, Dr Philip Sarre and Sue DennisJones for their insightful comments and suggestions. I owe a special thanks to my loving and supportive family, Alexandra and Christiaan Baaij, Octavian and Lucian Nita, Adi, Dan and Jana Calina, and particularly to my mother, Marinca Nita, and son, Owain Dennis-Jones, to whom this book is dedicated. Last but not least I would like to thank Phil Getz and Alexis Nelson of Palgrave Macmillan for their generous help and support.
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Introduction
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Christian Environmentalism: Mapping the Field of Green Christianity
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Methods for the Investigation of Christian Environmentalist Networks
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Theoretical Models for Studying Christian Environmental Networks
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The Green Movement: Climate and Transition
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Christian Environmental Networks
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Profiling Green Christian Activists: Merging Green and Faith Identities
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Spiritual Exercises and Community Building
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Green Rituals: Moving Mountains and the Green Euchari
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