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Hitzhusen, Gregory Ernest.

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Religion and the environment: The contributions of Christianity and Judaism to environmental ethics and education.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Religion and the environment: The contributions of Christianity and Judaism to environmental ethics and education./
Author:	Hitzhusen, Gregory Ernest.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2006,
Description:	117 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 68-05, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International68-05A.
Subject:	Religious education. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3227252
ISBN:	9780542788710

Religion and the environment: The contributions of Christianity and Judaism to environmental ethics and education.
Hitzhusen, Gregory Ernest.

Religion and the environment: The contributions of Christianity and Judaism to environmental ethics and education. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2006 - 117 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 68-05, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Cornell University, 2006.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

Environmental educators and advocates have increasingly become interested in the role that religion can play in environmental education (EE) and ethics. But while many conservation groups have begun partnering with religious communities in the work of environmental sustainability, bridges between religion and environmental education have been more difficult to build. One persistent problem is the lingering suspicion of many environmentalists that religion, particularly Western religion, discourages environmental concern. Lynn White's influential 1967 article in Science is the classic expression of such skepticism, though many scholars have questioned its validity. In Chapter One I review relevant empirical studies since 1977 that examine religious influences on environmental attitudes and behaviors and conclude that little evidence exists to suggest that religion significantly discourages environmental concern. If anything, religion appears to be helping the environmental cause. Despite interest in religion and spirituality in EE, little research has been done on religious EE programs. To help fill this gap, I conducted a mixed-method study of long-standing Christian and Jewish outdoor environmental education programs (Chapter Two). I coupled semi-structured practitioner interviews with content analysis of interview transcripts and an inductive-descriptive rating of practitioner goals to assess how these religious EE programs integrate outdoor, environmental, and religious-spiritual elements. These programs promote a theocentric environmental ethic, and prioritize spiritual growth and various experiential and environmental goals. Seven common themes of practice were identified which reveal how outdoor environmental learning in these programs is linked with spiritual growth, experience of nature, reflection on experience, worship, prayer, interpretation of scripture, and a range of ecotheological teachings. These results can directly inform religious EE programs and suggest practical models for how religion and theology can contribute to EE. Non-religious environmental educators may still face epistemological and legal questions of how to appropriately incorporate religious elements into EE, and I discuss some of these serious yet manageable challenges in Chapter Three. I consider religious and theological resources in terms of a familiar environmental citizenship behavior theory to further suggest how religious elements can enhance EE. Educators can draw from many resources and build on the ample common ground between religion and EE.

ISBN: 9780542788710Subjects--Topical Terms:

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