From “Why Should?” to “Why Do?” Tensions in the Christian Context While Acting for the Environment1
Year: 2022
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: This chapter examines the difference between theoretical claims and practical action in Christian environmental commitment in four benchmark cities in Switzerland and Germany. On the one hand, the development of Christian environmental ethics in the German-speaking and European Catholic and Protestant areas is traced. On the other hand, the interviews show that these reflections find their way to the grassroots only to a very limited extent. For although the environment and co-environment have been theologically explored by experts for several decades, these reflections are only very rarely found in conversation with the actors on site. Even if environmental protection does happen on the ground – especially in its form as “materialization” – it is usually justified by society’s expectations of one of its actors. Furthermore, it becomes clear that environmental engagement in the community is by no means shaped by decisions and actions of the umbrella organization, but in the cases studied is based almost exclusively on the decision of individual actors.
Source: Routledge eBooks
Author: Julia Blanc
Language: English
Subfield: Religious studies
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4304184217