Black Eco-theology Through History

The African American Experience
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-0-367-19145-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 112 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm

Reihe: Routledge Focus on Environment and Sustainability

Exploring the relationship between African Americans, religion and the environment, this book examines how African Americans have understood and related to the environment throughout their history.

Traveling from the earliest Christianity in ancient Africa through to the height of the black environmental liberation theology movement for environmental justice in the 20th century, this book presents how African Americans have connected with the environment through both African-influenced spirituality and Christian doctrine, making their experiences and understanding of the environment distinctive and unique.

Drawing on passages from scripture as well as explorations of the African American experience from Nat Turner, Harriet Jacobs, Toni Morrison, and Wangari Maathai, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of African American and environmental history and religion.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Glave, Dianne

Glave, Dianne D.

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Sachbuch, Reise
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of Contents  Preface  Chapter 1: Creation and Dominion  Chapter 2: Creation Care  Chapter 3: Sacred Burials  Chapter 4: Resistance  Chapter 5: Flight  Chapter 6: Trees  Index

Über Autor(innen)

Dianne Glave is an independent scholar whose expertise is black environmental history and black eco-theology. Her latest book is Black Eco-theology Through History (2026).