Todd LeVasseur 
Religious Agrarianism and the Return of Place [EPUB ebook] 
From Values to Practice in Sustainable Agriculture

Gold Medalist, 2018 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the Religion Category


Finalist for the 2017 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Religion category



Writing at the interface of religion and nature theory, US religious history, and environmental ethics, Todd Le Vasseur presents the case for the emergence of a nascent ‘religious agrarianism’ within certain subsets of Judaism and Christianity in the United States. Adherents of this movement, who share an environmental concern about the modern industrial food economy and a religiously grounded commitment to the values of locality, health, and justice, are creating new models for sustainable agrarian lifeways and practices. Le Vasseur explores this greening of US religion through an extensive engagement with the scholarly literature on lived religion, network theory, and grounded theory, as well as through ethnographic case studies of two intentional communities at the vanguard of this movement: Koinonia Farm, an ecumenical Christian lay monastic community, and Hazon, a progressive Jewish environmental group.

Inhoudsopgave

Acknowledgments

Preface



1. Sustainable Religion, Sustainable Ethics?



2. Koinonia and Christian Religious Agrarianism



3. Hazon and Jewish Religious Agrarianism



4. The Local ([Farm] Land)



5. Concepts of Health



6. Justice for All: From Soil to Worker, from Individual to Community



7. Conclusion: A Harvest of Ideas



Appendix

Notes

References

Index

Over de auteur

Todd Le Vasseur teaches religious studies and environmental and sustainability studies at the College of Charleston. He is the coeditor (with Pramod Parajuli and Norman Wirzba) of
Religion and Sustainable Agriculture: World Spiritual Traditions and Food Ethics and the coeditor (with Anna Peterson) of
Religion and Ecological Crisis: The ‘Lynn White Thesis’ at Fifty.