Religion in Environmental and Climate Change: Suffering, Values, Lifestyles

Acknowledgements \ Notes on Contributors \ Part I: Setting the Stage \ 1. Facing the Human Faces of Climate Change Dieter Gerten & Sigurd Bergmann \ 2. Global Change and the Need for New Cosmologies Wolfgang Lucht \ 3. Religion in the Public Sphere: The Social Function of Religion in the Context of Climate and Development Policy Michael Reder \ 4. Contemplating Climategate: Religion and the Future of Climate Research Timothy Leduc \ Part II: Sketching Sustainable Futures: Recent Dynamics in World Religions \ 5. Climate Justice from a Christian Point of View: Challenges for a new Definition of Wealth Markus Vogt \ 6.Climate Justice and the Intrinsic Value of Creation: The Christian Understanding of Creation and its Holistic Implications Friedrich Lohmann \ 7. Evangelicals and Climate Change Michael Roberts \ 8. Religious Climate Activism in the United States Laurel Kearns \ 9. The Future of Faith: Climate Change and the Fate of Religions Martin Sch nfeld \ Part III: Regional and Indigenous Belief Systems and Environmental Change: Case Studies \ 10. Climate and Cosmology: Exploring Sakha Belief and the Local Effects of Unprecedented Change in North-Eastern Siberia, Russia Susan Crate \ 11. Religious Perspectives on Climate Change Among Indigenous Communities: Questions and Challenges for Ethnological Research Lioba Rossbach de Olmos \ 12. Vulnerable Coastal regions: Indigenous People Under Climate Change in Indonesia Urte Undine Fr mming and Christian Reichel \ 13. Jaichylyk: Harmonizing the Will of Nature and Human Needs Gulnara Aitpaeva\ 14. Environment, Climate and Religion in Ancient European History Holger Sonnabend \ Index

Dieter Gerten is geographer and hydrologist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Potsdam, Germany. Sigurd Bergmann is Professor of Religious Studies at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.

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