Grounding Religion

Whitney A. Bauman is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Florida International University, Florida, USA. Richard Bohannon is a cartographer and teaches in the Geography Department at St. Cloud State University, Minnesota, USA. Kevin J. O’Brien is Associate Professor of Religion and Dean of Humanities at Pacific Lutheran University, Washington, USA.

Notes on contributors

Introduction to the second edition

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Whitney A. Bauman, Richard Bohannon, and Kevin J. O’Brien

1 Religion: what is it, who gets to decide, and why does it matter?

Whitney A. Bauman, Richard Bohannon, and Kevin J. O’Brien

2 Case Study: religion and the twenty-first century North American anti-extraction movement

Joseph Witt

3 Ecology: what is it, who gets to decide, and why does it matter?

Whitney A. Bauman, Richard Bohannon, and Kevin J. O’Brien

4 Case Study: religion and disaster: the Merapi volcano eruption

Najiyah Martiam

5 Gender and queers studies

Whitney A. Bauman and Heather Eaton

6 Race and ethnicity

Carol Wayne White

7 The power of place

Brian G. Campbell

8 Globalization

Lois Ann Lorentzen

9 Climate change

Laurel Kearns

10 Food

Whitney Sanford

11 Animals

Dave Aftandilian

12 Technology

Noreen Herzfeld

13 Justice

Richard Bohannon and Kevin J. O’Brien

14 Sustainability

Willis Jenkins

15 Economics

Laura M. Hartman

16 Conclusion: despair, hope, and action

Whitney A. Bauman and Kevin J. O’Brien

Index