Mapping the field of religious environmental politics
Mapping the field of religious environmental politics
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DOI：
10.1093/ia/iiz255
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发表时间：
2020-03-01
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4.5
通讯作者：
Kidwell, Jeremy
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作者：
Kidwell, Jeremy
直到最近，在关于环境政治的学术论述中，对宗教的考虑一直处于边缘甚至不存在。最近对“环境价值”的讨论扩大，包括宗教机构和个人信仰在形成精神环境价值方面的作用，以及对伦理和宗教机构在全球环境政治中的地位的重新关注，鼓励了对这些领域交叉的重新关注。继宗教领袖发表一系列历史性声明之后，教皇方济各（Pope Francis）最近发布的通谕标志着天主教对社会正义和环境正义的关注达到了一个新的水平。然而，大型环保非政府组织和政府的大部分持续参与仍然忽视了当地、中间和跨国宗教政治生态的复杂相互关系。在这篇文章中，我主要是基于与英国基督教REMOs（宗教环境运动组织）一起进行的五年田野调查收集的数据，探讨了宗教环境主义政治参与的复杂性，这种复杂性源于这些团体可能采取的许多不同的组织迭代。在这样的调查基础上，我建议，通过对这些群体可能采取的许多不同形式、这些群体组织的各种规模以及政治行动和群体认同在宗教背景下可能采取的独特变化的细致理解，将大大提高与REMO群体的有效高层接触。
Until fairly recently, consideration of religion has been marginal or even non-existent in the scholarly discourse about environmental politics. Renewed attention to the intersection of these fields has been encouraged by a recent widening in discussions of 'environmental values' to include the role of religious institutions and personal belief in forming spiritual environmental values and renewed attention to the place of ethics and religious institutions in global environmental politics. Following a range of historic declarations by religious leaders, the recent encyclical by Pope Francis signalled a new level of integration between Catholic concerns for social and environmental justice. Yet, much of the continued engagement by large environmental NGOs and governments has continued to ignore the complex interrelation of local, intermediate and transnational religious political ecology. In this article, which is based on data gathered during five years of fieldwork, primarily with British Christian REMOs (religious environmental movement organizations), I probe the complexities of political engagement with religious environmentalism which arise from the many different organizational iterations these groups may take. On the basis of such investigation I suggest that effective high-level engagement with REMO groups will be greatly enhanced by a nuanced understanding of the many different shapes that these groups can take, the various scales at which these groups organize, and the unique inflection that political action and group identity can take in a religious context.