Weather, Religion and Climate Change is the first in-depth exploration
of the fascinating way in which the weather impacts on the fields of
religion, art, culture, history, science, and architecture. In
critical dialogue with meteorology and climate science, this book
takes the reader beyond the limits of contemporary thinking about the
Anthropocene and explores whether a deeper awareness of weather might
impact on the relationship between nature and self. Drawing on a wide
range of examples, including paintings by J.M.W. Turner, medieval
sacred architecture, and Aristotle’s classical Meteorologica,
Bergmann examines a geographically and historically wide range of
cultural practices, religious practices, and worldviews in which
weather appears as a central, sacred force of life. He also examines
the history of scientific meteorology and its ambivalent
commodification today, as well as medieval "weather witchery" and
biblical perceptions of weather as a kind of "barometer" of God’s
love. Overall, this volume explores the notion that a new awareness of
weather and its atmospheres can serve as a deep cultural and spiritual
driving force that can overcome the limits of the Anthropocene and
open a new path to the "Ecocene", the age of nature. Drawing on
methodologies from religious studies, cultural studies, art history
and architecture, philosophy, environmental ethics and aesthetics,
history, and theology, this book will be of great interest to all
those concerned with studying the environment from a transdisciplinary
perspective on weather and wisdom.
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ISBN
9781000290752
Publisert
2020
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Routledge
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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