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Inherit the Holy Mountain: Religion and the Rise of American Environmentalism de Mark Stoll

Inherit the Holy Mountain: Religion and the Rise of American Environmentalism

Autor Mark Stoll
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 25 iun 2015

Notăm cu interes apariția volumului Inherit the Holy Mountain, o lucrare esențială pentru cercetătorii din domeniul eticii mediului și al istoriei ideilor, oferind o perspectivă riguroasă asupra fundamentelor religioase ale conservării în Statele Unite. Relevanța acesteia pentru studiile postuniversitare și acreditările în domeniul istoriei mediului este indiscutabilă, propunând o schimbare de paradigmă: religia nu este un obstacol în calea ecologismului, ci însăși matricea care i-a oferit rigoarea morală și estetică.

Remarcăm modul în care Mark Stoll deconstruiește teza clasică conform căreia creștinismul ar fi inerent ostil naturii. Autorul demonstrează că, deși mulți lideri ecologiști au părăsit ulterior biserica organizată, valorile lor au fost formate în spiritul protestantismului reformat. Putem afirma că lucrarea extinde cadrul propus de The Greening of Protestant Thought de Robert Booth Fowler, aducând date noi despre perioada anterioară primului Earth Day și analizând cum estetica și teologia congregaționalistă au modelat primele idei de conservare. Spre deosebire de The Nature of Church Camp, care se concentrează pe educația în aer liber între 1945 și 1980, Mark Stoll oferă o panoramă mult mai vastă, pornind de la rădăcinile coloniale până la provocările secolului XXI.

Fiecare capitol este structurat inovator, începând cu analiza unei opere de artă care reflectă viziunea unei anumite denominațiuni asupra lumii naturale. Această abordare interdisciplinară, susținută de cele 37 de ilustrații incluse, transformă lectura într-o experiență analitică densă. Cartea se poziționează ca o continuare firească a cercetărilor din Protestantism, Capitalism, and Nature in America, rafinând argumentele autorului despre intersecția dintre credință, economie și ecologie.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780190230869
ISBN-10: 019023086X
Pagini: 424
Ilustrații: 15 illustrations
Dimensiuni: 160 x 239 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.68 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte studenților la istorie, sociologie și ecologie care doresc să înțeleagă de unde provin valorile morale ale mișcării verzi. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă clară asupra modului în care identitatea religioasă a modelat politici publice de mediu. Este un instrument critic pentru a anticipa viitorul leadership-ului ecologist, într-o eră în care influența bisericilor reformate tradiționale este în declin, fiind înlocuită de noi cadre etice.

Despre autor

Mark Stoll este conferențiar universitar de istorie la Texas Tech University, specializat în intersecția dintre istoria religioasă și cea a mediului. Autor al volumului de referință Protestantism, Capitalism, and Nature in America, Stoll s-a impus ca o voce autoritară în mediul academic american, investigând modul în care sistemele de credințe influențează interacțiunea umană cu peisajul natural. Cercetările sale sunt recunoscute pentru rigoarea documentară și pentru capacitatea de a integra istoria artei în analizele socio-politice, oferind o viziune holistică asupra evoluției ideologiei protecției mediului în spațiul anglo-saxon.

Descriere

Historians of American environmentalism have long given religion either a negligible role or a negative one in the development of the field. According to the standard view, Christianity fostered attitudes hostile or indifferent to nature, with Protestantism the worst offender. While virtually all leading environmental figures did eventually leave organized religion, a large majority however had religious childhoods, usually in Reformed Protestant churches, and often counted clergy as close relatives. And although popular support for conservation and environmentalism was relatively non-denominational, Congregationalists provided the foundational ideas of conservation, while the rise and decline of environmentalism as a powerful national movement coincided with the prevalence of Presbyterian leadership.By tracing the history of American environmentalism from a perspective that puts religion at the center rather than the margins, Mark Stoll opens up a fundamentally new and much needed narrative in environmental studies. Inherit the Holy Mountain argues against the divide between religion and American environmentalism, demonstrating how religion necessarily provided environmentalists with deeply-embedded moral and cultural ways of viewing the world giving content, direction, and tone to the environmental causes they espoused. The book demonstrates how individuals' denominational origins corresponded with characteristic sets of ideas about nature and the environment, with each denomination fostering a distinctive culture with its own moral framework and its own placement of humans within the natural world. Stoll also demonstrates how each denomination also fostered a distinctive aesthetic reaction to nature, beginning each chapter of the book with an analysis of a representative work of art.Inherit the Holy Mountain also provides insight into the possible future of environmentalism in the United States, concluding with an examination of the current religious scene and consideration of what it may tell us. Whatever form the response to these problems will take in the twenty-first century, Stoll says, it will look very different, with different values, goals, and styles of leadership, than it did when the children of the Reformed churches created and led it.

Recenzii

If the geographic region of focus is the United States, then the book is mandatory. The impressive amount of data covered in its pages, and the cohesive narrative that contextualizes and analyzes this data, cannot be captured in a 1,600-word book review. Scholars owe Stoll a debt of gratitude for the 30 years of dedication to crafting this thorough treatment of the impact religion has had on environmentalism in the US. This gratitude should begin with the assignment of this book in graduate seminars devoted to interactions between religion and nature, where it can provide a shining example of scholarship toward which future leaders of the field should aspire.
Spanning five centuries and encompassing religious and enviromental history with a heavy dose of art history, Inherit the Holy Mountain is the product of extensive research and offers a sweeping cultural reinterpretation of the history of American enviromentalism.
He has painted such a rich description of religion in the lives and ideas of American environmentalists that readers will be struck by new insights and want more information about interactions between religion and environmental history. One need not agree with all of his conclusions to appreciate the quality of his research and be excited about the scholarship it will inspire as others respond to his ideas.
[An] insightful religious history of environmentalism.
It provides a detailed and fascinating genealogical analysis of the religious origins of American environmentalism. This is an impressive, provocative work of synthesis and original scholarship that enriches greatly our understanding of the history of the American environmental movement by placing religion at its core.
Mark has written a book that has the potential to change the way environmentalists think about religion and the way religious people think about environmentalism.
This book grafts American religious history onto American environmental history, merging two distinct narratives, and it richly illustrates their themes with American art history to create a provocative, insightful hybrid.
In Ecology in the 20th Century: A History (1989) historian Anna Bramwell gave the following short characterization of the (radical) environmentalist: 'As well as being saved, he is a protestant.' Bramwell did not elaborate on her provocative statement but now the gap has been filled by this splendid book by Mark Stoll.
Mark Stoll's Inherit the Holy Mountain is a fascinating, compelling, and enlightening journey through American history that interweaves religion with environmental preservation. Stoll skillfully narrates the nuanced roles of Calvinists, Congregationalists, Unitarians, and Presbyterians along with the voices of African Americans, Catholics, and Jews in conserving landscapes. Anyone interested in how and why American religious traditions have been so significant in setting aside forests and parks, saving wildlife, and mitigating urban pollution will want to read this book.
a must read ... He provides a panoramic survey, bringing to the discussion a wealth of detailed information, insights, and revelations about this generally neglected subject. ... This book will be of interest in numerous disciplines, including art history, conservation and environmental studies, and religion.
Stoll's book is an important contribution to our understanding of the religious roots of environmentalism

Notă biografică

Mark Stoll is Associate Professor of History and Director of Environmental Studies at Texas Tech University.

Cuprins

  • Dedication
  • Epigraph
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Calvinism and Nature: American Foundations
  • 2. Origins of Conservation in the Puritan Landscape
  • 3. Building the Moral Society: Farms, Forests, and Parks
  • 4. Nature, Parks, and Emersonian Modernism
  • 5. Progressive Presbyterian Conservation
  • 6. Presbyterians and the Environmental Movement
  • 7. Nature and New England's Outsiders
  • 8. A New Era
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix
  • Notes
  • Index