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At most times and in most places, human cultures have interpreted changes in their climates through religious eyes. Berry's welcome collection of grounded essays, drawn from India to Peru, from Trinidad to the Philippines, shows that the twenty-first century is no different. The cases Berry foregrounds in Climate Politics and the Power of Religion drive home that it is not only 'the science' that politicians need to listen to. They also need to listen to the religious narratives, movements and demands that make climate change a meaningful phenomenon for billions of people in today's world.--Mike Hulme, University of Cambridge Climate Politics and the Power of Religion explores a range of fascinating, new approaches to the study of religion and climate change in the Anthropocene. The authors attend less to doctrine than to the adaptive cosmovisions and practices through which religious actors respond locally, and often innovatively, to planetary challenges and seek to converge or bridge them with secular, global responses.--Prasenjit Duara, Author of The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future

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Evan Berry is Assistant Professor of Environmental Humanities in the School of History, Philosophy, and Religious Studies at Arizona State University. He is author of Devoted to Nature: The Religious Roots of American Environmentalism.

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