
In Inherit The Holy Mountain, Historian Mark Stoll Introduces Us To The Religious Roots Of The American Environmental Movement. Religion, He Shows, Provided Environmentalists Both With Deeply-embedded Moral And Cultural Ways Of Viewing The World And With Content, Direction, And Tone For The Causes They Espoused. Stoll Discovers That Specific Denominational Origins Corresponded With Characteristic Sets Of Ideas About Nature And The Environment As Well As Distinctive Aesthetic Reactions To Nature, As Can Be Seen In Key Works Of Art Analyzed Throughout The Book. Stoll Also Provides Insight Into The Possible Future Of Environmentalism In The United States, Concluding With An Examination Of The Current Religious Scene And What It Portends For The Future. By Debunking The Supposed Divide Between Religion And American Environmentalism, Inherit The Holy Mountain Opens Up A Fundamentally New Narrative In Environmental Studies.
This book investigates the historical intersection of religious belief and the development of the American environmental movement. Historian Mark Stoll examines how specific denominational traditions provided the moral framework, cultural vocabulary, and aesthetic values that shaped environmental activism in the United States. By analyzing the interplay between theology and conservation, Stoll argues that religious roots are foundational to the environmental causes that have emerged over the last century.
What You Will Find
Scope Limits
Scholars and readers note that this text provides a rigorous, well-researched challenge to the common assumption that religion and environmentalism are inherently opposed. Experts highlight the book as a significant contribution to environmental history for its ability to synthesize theological influence with political activism.
Page Count:
352
Publication Date:
2015-01-01
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
ISBN-10:
0190230878
ISBN-13:
9780190230876
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