Yale University Library Research Guides: Theology & the Environment: Economics and Politics

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The Invisible Hand in the Wilderness: Economics, Ecology and God by Malcolm Clemens Young This book brings together insights from three fields: economics, ecology, and theology in order to construct a more healthy and productive picture of human wellbeing. Economic ideas have a theological history that needs to be addressed if we are to begin healing the world.
Church, Cosmovision and the Environment by Evan Berry (Editor) Describes and analyses multiple types of religious engagement with environmental concerns and conflicts seen in modern Latin American democracies.
Blessed Are the Consumers: Climate Change and the Practice of Restraint by Sallie Mcfague The root of restraint in a consumer culture, this book argues, rests in the ancient Christian notion of Kenosis, or self-emptying.
Life Abundant: Rethinking Theology and Economy for a Planet in Peril by Sallie McFague
Everything Is Interconnected: Towards a Globalization with a Human Face and an Integral Ecology by Joseph Ogbonnaya (Editor); Lucas Briola (Editor) Engaging theology, philosophy, the social sciences, and the natural sciences, this book looks at globalization, climate change, and economics from a Catholic perspective.

Ecology and Justice Series (Orbis Books) This series seeks to integrate an understanding of the Earth as an interconnected life system with concerns for just and sustainable systems that benefit the entire planetary community. Viewing the present moment as a time for responsible creativity, this series asks authors to speak to ecojustice concerns from the Christian community, from the world’s other religious traditions, from secular and scientific circles, and from new paradigms of thought and action.

Climate Politics and the Power of Religion by Evan Berry (Editor) This edited volume, at the intersection of global environmental policy and religious studies, includes ten case studies on how religion shapes climate politics across the world.
Common Goods: Economy, Ecology, and Political Theology (Online) by Melanie Johnson-DeBaufre (Editor); Catherine Keller (Editor); Elias Ortega-Aponte (Editor) In one essay, Moe-Lobeda shows how climate change acts as a manifestation of white privilege, class privilege, and climate debt. She then offers a potential response founded in Christian ethics as political theology.
God and the Green Divide: Religious Environmentalism in Black and White (Online) by Amanda J. Baugh Baugh’s research on religious environmentalism of urban Americans problematizes the idea that religious environmentalism is solely an expression of religious beliefs. She looks at race, ethnicity, and class factors as they have related to the decisions of peoples to participate in environmental movements.
Sacred Longings: The Ecological Spirit and Global Culture by Mary C. Grey Envisions spirituality a kind of ecomystical renewal as an element in the transformation of desire, lived out in Christian community. Part One examines how our culture has lost heart; Part Two analyzes our restless hearts; Part Three asks us to take heart and rekindle our thirst for righteousness.