‘Lived’ Environmentalism: Lifestyle Politics or Nonreligious Worldview?
In this article, I synthesise three literatures that—whilst having significant overlap, are largely not in conversation with one another: social movement theory on the ‘religion-like’ characteristics of social movements (particularly environmentalism); work by scholars in religious studies tracing t...
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| 格式: | 電子 Article |
| 語言: | English |
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2024
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Journal for the academic study of religion
Year: 2024, 卷: 37, 發布: 3, Pages: 274-296 |
| Further subjects: | B
Worldviews
B Environmentalism B Nonreligion B Social Movements B Studies in religion B GE195-199 Environmentalism |
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| 總結: | In this article, I synthesise three literatures that—whilst having significant overlap, are largely not in conversation with one another: social movement theory on the ‘religion-like’ characteristics of social movements (particularly environmentalism); work by scholars in religious studies tracing the religious roots and contemporary spiritual aspects of environmental movements; and the emerging literature on the contours of nonreligious belief and practice in contemporary societies—especially as they relate to nature. Using these literatures, I show how environmentalisms articulate a ‘cosmology’ or worldview that gives meaning to the world, imbues ethical meaning to material objects like single-use plastics and their reusable alternatives, and is translated into everyday practices that attempt to remoralise activists’ relationship with the natural world. The article responds to a call by scholars of nonreligion to pay greater attention to ‘lived’ nonreligion, and in particular, how nonreligious worldviews translate into ‘world-repairing’ forms of social and political action. I argue that social movements are rich sites for the study of lived nonreligion, as they offer their participants space for the cultivation, expression, and embodiment of ‘moral visions’. |
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| ISSN: | 2047-7058 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for the academic study of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1558/jasr.26752 |