Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Faith Saving WaterWater-its availability, quality, and management-is one of the biggest societal, political, and ethical challenges humans across the globe must successfully resolve to mitigate the effects of climate change.Since Comparative Islamic Studies is interested in how Islamic sources, theories and methods can be used to solve practical problems, it is a great pleasure to announce this issue, volume 15.1-2, which focuses on water.The first five articles constitute a special issue titled "Faith Saving Water: Christians, Muslims, and Water as a Critical Natural Resource," and devoted to the roles that Islam and Christianity can play in addressing the challenges related to water.Guest editors are Rana Abu-Mounes and Georgina Radim, who introduce the collection of articles and contribute as authors, as well.The articles explore the topic "Faith Saving Water" through a range of approaches and cases-scriptural analysis, bilateral conflict, occupation and apartheid, cultural heritage, state and religious authorities, community engagement and interfaith dialogue.This way the collection fills the important function of mapping some of the many roles that peoples' religious faiths and practices can play in relation to water management.It will be followed up by a future, complementary collection of articles convened by the same editors, which will shift the focus to environmentalism and its theological frameworks in Islamic and Christian contexts.
Source: Comparative Islamic Studies
DOI: 10.1558/cis.33146
Author: Ulrika Mårtensson
Institution: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4410109604