Reformed Protestantism and the Origins of Modern Environmentalism
The question I investigate in this essay is why it was individuals and regions with a Reformed Protestant religious background—rather than, say, Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Buddhist, or Taoist—which pioneered environmental campaigns and efforts to set aside national parks and rare species for...
| Published in: | Philosophia reformata |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2018
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Philosophia reformata
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| IxTheo Classification: | CG Christianity and Politics KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KDD Protestant Church NBD Doctrine of Creation NCG Environmental ethics; Creation ethics |
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Protestantism
romanticism
origins of environmentalism
nature conservation
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| Summary: | The question I investigate in this essay is why it was individuals and regions with a Reformed Protestant religious background—rather than, say, Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Buddhist, or Taoist—which pioneered environmental campaigns and efforts to set aside national parks and rare species for conservation. Subsidiary questions discussed are two: (1) What might be the roots of an affinity between Protestantism and an ecological orientation to the world? (2) If there was this affinity in the nineteenth-century origins of ecological conservation, why is it not more widely acknowledged in contemporary scholarship and in the public mind? |
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| ISSN: | 2352-8230 |
| Reference: | Kritik in "The Relationship between (Protestant) Christianity and the Environment is Ambivalent (2018)"
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| Contains: | In: Philosophia reformata
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/23528230-08301003 |