Lexington Books
Pages: 150
Trim: 6½ x 9
978-1-7936-3012-4 • Hardback • May 2021 • $100.00 • (£77.00)
978-1-7936-3014-8 • Paperback • February 2023 • $39.99 • (£30.00)
978-1-7936-3013-1 • eBook • May 2021 • $38.00 • (£30.00)
Lukas Szrot is assistant professor of sociology at Bemidji State University.
Chapter 1: Sacred Places in a Risk Society
Chapter 2: Religion and Change over Time
Chapter 3: Religious Upbringing, Disaffiliation, Environmental Concern
Chapter 4: Religion and Environmental Concern, Intergenerationally
Chapter 5: Bringing Religion In: Gender, Class, Race, and Politics
Conclusion: Prospects and Possibilities
In Faiths in Green Lukas Szrot explores deeper implications of environmental-change-as-metamorphosis. His explorations of human morality in the emergence of environmental awareness are as wickedly insightful as the problems are wickedly complex. He moves the how and when of human religious behaviors like chess pieces illuminating the game of religious environmentalism. Read this at the risk of encountering a lucid vision of human-Earth relations.
— John Grim, Co-Director, Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology
Szrot uses data from the General Social Survey to measure changes in support for environmental stewardship and conservation across age cohorts of the religiously affiliated US population since the 1970s. He applies the concepts of habitus and reflexivity to explain the interplay of religion with environmental concern, pointing to individual socialization and institutional adaptation as influencing factors and taking into account the potential impact of political party loyalty as well as race, class, and gender. Recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty.
— Choice Reviews
Lukas Szrot’s book provides an interesting take on the influence religion has on environmental concerns and how it spurs change within U.S. politics. This book contributes to the growing literature on environmental studies, politics, and religion and could be useful for those teaching and studying the intersections of conservation, environmentalism, religion, and stewardship.
— Symbolic Interaction