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Humans Rule? Implications Of Religious Undergraduates’ Changing Environmental Perceptions, J. Robert Nielson
Humans Rule? Implications Of Religious Undergraduates’ Changing Environmental Perceptions, J. Robert Nielson
Undergraduate Honors Theses
Addressing climate change requires correctly appraising one’s ethic toward the Earth. Historically, people have navigated their relationship to the natural world via environmental ethics of both religious and secular origin. Aldo Leopold described developing this relationship via the land ethic, a culturally informed process, as “an evolutionary possibility and an ecological necessity.” A land ethic provides a reference point from which individuals and societies make decisions about the Earth and its resources. This thesis considers the evolving land ethic of a young population of conservative Christian students at Brigham Young University with two separate cohorts of non-biology major undergraduates enrolled …
Review: Jedediah S. Rogers And Matthew C. Godfrey, Eds. The Earth Will Appear As The Garden Of Eden: Essays On Mormon Environmental History. Salt Lake City: University Of Utah Press, 2019., Camden Burd
Mormon Studies Review
The Earth Will Appear as the Garden of Eden: Essays on Mormon Environmental History fits into an established trend in environmental history. Over the past decades, historians from Lynn White Jr. to Mark R. Stoll have established the religious roots of environmental change in human history.1 Like those scholars, the contributors to this collection seek to understand the complicated and interconnected relationship between theology, faith, and the natural world. Divided across three sections, The Earth Will Appear as the Garden of Eden provides a much-welcomed examination of the environmental aspects of Mormon theology, culture, and history.
Toward A Greener Faith: A Review Of Recent Mormon Environmental Scholarship, George B. Handley
Toward A Greener Faith: A Review Of Recent Mormon Environmental Scholarship, George B. Handley
Mormon Studies Review
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Environmental Lessons From Our Pioneer Heritage, Terry B. Ball, Jack D. Brotherson
Environmental Lessons From Our Pioneer Heritage, Terry B. Ball, Jack D. Brotherson
BYU Studies
The efforts of the pioneers and their posterity to correct their mistakes in agricultural and ranching practices set an example for us today.