Editors:
- Explores opportunities for faith-engaged approaches to climate change adaptation in Oceania that are science-informed locally meaningful and contextually compelling
- Examines how positionality affects insider–outsider adaptation discourse and discusses limitations opportunities and future prospects
- Creates consilience by integrating interdisciplinary contributions from the sciences and humanities, including case studies, literary analyses, field projects, and empirical research
- Investigates influences of tradition, local precedent, spirituality, indigeneity, and connectedness to nature on decision-making in the Pacific Islands Region
Part of the book series: Climate Change Management (CCM)
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Looking Back to the Future: The Clash of Religion and Secularism
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The Roots of Spirituality and Religion in the Pacific Islands Region
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Religion as Culture, Religion for Wellbeing
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Weaving Worldviews: Science and Spirituality Together
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Belief and Action: A Way Forward?
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About this book
• Context: past, present, and future prospects
• Theory: concepts, narratives, and theoretical frameworks
• Practice: empirical research and praxis-informed case examples
• Doctrine: scriptural contributions and perspectives
• Engagement: enlisting religious stakeholders and constituencies
Comprising peer-reviewed works by scholars, professionals, and practitioners from across Oceania, the book closes a critical gap in the literature and represents a groundbreaking contribution to holistic climate change adaptation in the Pacific Islands Region that is scientifically sound, spiritually attuned, locally meaningful, and contextually compelling.
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Editors and Affiliations
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School of Social Sciences, Christian Heritage College (CHC), Brisbane, Australia
Johannes M. Luetz
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School of Law and Society / Australian Centre for Pacific Islands Research, University of the Sunshine Coast (USC), Sippy Downs, Australia
Patrick D. Nunn
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Beyond Belief
Book Subtitle: Opportunities for Faith-Engaged Approaches to Climate-Change Adaptation in the Pacific Islands
Editors: Johannes M. Luetz, Patrick D. Nunn
Series Title: Climate Change Management
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67602-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-67601-8Published: 04 April 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-67604-9Published: 04 April 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-67602-5Published: 03 April 2021
Series ISSN: 1610-2002
Series E-ISSN: 1610-2010
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 391
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 24 illustrations in colour
Topics: Climate Change