Chapter 1: The Basic Landscape of Religion and the Environment in America

My intent in this chapter is to provide a general sketch, a brief but reliable overview of the basic landscape of Religion and the Environment in America from 30,000 feet. Much of that landscape is highlighted in Hitzhusen and Tucker (2013), which was an overview prepared for the Ecological Society of America’s journal Frontiers in Ecology and Environment. What I want to share here is more detail about the background and context of that overview.

Spoiler alert: it looks a lot more like this than you might expect. “Our Lady of Perpetual Help Creation Care Council member Pat Sarosi gives a parishioner one of over 30 seedling trees handed out on Earth Day 2019.” Photo credit: Sister Nancy Miller OSF

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