Environmental Beliefs in History. How Religion Informs Environmental Beliefs

The book is a multidisciplinary edited volume containing contributions from historians, religious studies scholars, canon law experts and from environmental lawyers and students. Research into environmental action intersects with research into beliefs and religious life at every level: global trans-national institutions, the state, cities, and local communities including universities. This religion-environment nexus plays out in different ways: it concerns local possibilities for mobilising action; it concerns religious groups who attempt to embody alternative social patterns (especially in relation to the environment); it concerns how citizens often base their decisions on beliefs more than on scientific data. This book invites scholars from the law and social sciences to reflect on the role that belief has historically played in environmental protection and decision-making.