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Mark Stoll - Inherit the Holy Mountain: Religion and the Rise of American Environmentalism - 9780190230869 - V9780190230869
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Inherit the Holy Mountain: Religion and the Rise of American Environmentalism

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Description for Inherit the Holy Mountain: Religion and the Rise of American Environmentalism Hardback. Inherit the Holy Mountain puts religion at the center of the history of American environmentalism rather than at its margins, demonstrating how religion provided environmentalists with content, direction, and tone for the environmental causes they espoused. Num Pages: 416 pages, 15 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRLP5; RNA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 169 x 245 x 37. Weight in Grams: 730.
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
730g
Number of Pages
424
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780190230869
SKU
V9780190230869
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About Mark Stoll
Mark Stoll is Associate Professor of History and Director of Environmental Studies at Texas Tech University.

Reviews for Inherit the Holy Mountain: Religion and the Rise of American Environmentalism
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 ... Read more

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