Religion and Sustainability: Social Movements and the Politics of the Environment
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چکیده
Many may be surprised by the juxtaposition of religion and sustainability in the title of this book. However, since the late 1980s, basic and applied research has increasingly attended to the relationship between religion and ecology, including the relevance of religion for sustainability as well as for the related arenas of environmentalism and conservation (e.g., Dudley, et al., eds., 2005, and Vershuuren, et al., eds. 2010).
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