RT Article
T1 Inciting Climate Activism in "Secular-Spiritual" Spaces
JF Journal for the study of religion, nature and culture
VO 20
IS 1
SP 134
OP 154
A1 Hautzinger, Sarah 1963-
LA English
YR 2026
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/194841015X
AB Coordinated, interfaith movements offer potential to mobilize civic engagement with the climate crisis and help break from decades of insufficient action. This account explores local to global climate organizing in "secular-spiritual" spaces, and its decompartmentalizing effects upon my roles as ethnographer/scholar, activist, and private person with a spiritual life. I first describe encountering Greenfaith International as an exemplar for organizing across geographical and interfaith lines, and including big-picture, mitigation-focused goals. Next, I recount scenes from subsequent efforts to engage regional inter-spiritual networks and individual groups whose shared "secular-spiritual" orientations made them good prospects for climate work: the Crestone Spiritual Alliance, Earth Church Circle, and All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church, all of southern Colorado. I argue that these "secular-spiritual", interfaith spaces hold distinctive potential for ethnically and morally based climate advocacy and climate-movement building. Nonetheless, the essay concludes by considering ways climate work is singularly confounding, humbling, and easily deflected onto other forms of justice work.
K1 autoethnography
K1 Climate
K1 climate action
K1 Climate Change
K1 Eco-spirituality
K1 faith-based social movements
K1 inter-faith coalitions
K1 inter-religiosity
K1 interfaith networks
K1 interfaith organizing
K1 Religion
K1 secular-spirituality
DO 10.1558/jsrnc.28737