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This multidisciplinary book explores how religious and faith groups promote sustainable relationships between people, place and environments. A brief review of the academic literature finds few studies linking the study of religion with sustainability and place. The contribution of this volume is its attention to how conceptions of place influence sustainability concerns and activism of religious and faith groups. We see a tension in these place conceptions. It is a tension between an inward-looking geography of concern—a more narrow and bounded sense of place—and a geography of care and concern that extends beyond the local to the global. This volume is organized by this place-based theme, moving from chapters that explore a defensive posture and how the sacred sense of place informs efforts of religious groups to promote sustainability, to chapters that explore how an open and global sense of place shapes the sustainability discourse and efforts of religious and interfaith groups.
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Silvern, S.E., Davis, E.H. (2021). Introduction: Religion, Sustainability, and Place. In: Silvern, S.E., Davis, E.H. (eds) Religion, Sustainability, and Place. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-7646-1_1
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