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Ecotheology in Context: A Critical Phenomenological Study of Graduates of Environmentally Focused Seminary Programs in the United States of America.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Ecotheology in Context: A Critical Phenomenological Study of Graduates of Environmentally Focused Seminary Programs in the United States of America./
Author:	Bock, Cherice.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2024,
Description:	357 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-10, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International85-10B.
Subject:	Theology. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=31277095
ISBN:	9798382221113

Ecotheology in Context: A Critical Phenomenological Study of Graduates of Environmentally Focused Seminary Programs in the United States of America.
Bock, Cherice.

Ecotheology in Context: A Critical Phenomenological Study of Graduates of Environmentally Focused Seminary Programs in the United States of America. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2024 - 357 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-10, Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Antioch University, 2024.

In recent decades, the field of ecotheology has emerged in dialogue with the context of the interconnected environmental and climate crises, particularly relating to the critique of Christianity being used to justify human and resource exploitation. A range of disciplines within the religious academy have taken up these intersecting concerns, together termed "ecologically informed theological education." Graduate institutions training faith leaders and theological educators have created degree programs and certifications, and/or incorporated awareness of ecology, sustainability, and care for creation into their curricula. A research approach for ecotheology is described through the conceptual framework of critical ecotheology, which acknowledges ecotheology as a form of contextual theology, as well as recognizing every theological context occurs within an ecological setting. The praxis model of contextual theology provides a container for the methodology. Critical phenomenology methodology was used to examine the lived experiences of those past and current graduate students working to put ecotheology into practice in their lives and workplaces. Participants had taken at least three seminary courses related to religion and the environment in one of 14 seminaries in the United States of America. These seminaries had a program, certification, or emphasis related to religion and environment or had incorporated environmental awareness into their core curriculum. Purposeful sampling and snowball sampling were used. Initial semi-structured interviews (N=50) and a follow-up demographic and short answer questionnaire (N=48) provided data about seminary student experiences of programs and courses related to environmental care and what participants are doing with these degrees outside the academy. The types of actions participants had taken that they consider pro-environmental at various levels (personal/household, social network, congregation, public and community, and cultural values/worldview) were collected and described. In-depth phenomenological interviews were conducted (N = 16) to study the phenomenon of putting environmental care into action as an expression of participants' faith. Findings include use of spiritual disciplines and ecospiritual practices to sustain environmental action. Participants still struggled, however, to connect personal actions to communal or systemic change toward the health and wellbeing of the community of all life. A new theory of an "expansively Christian ecotheology of orthopraxis" emerged from the data. Recommendations are included for theological educators and for those interested in working on environmental topics with people of faith. This dissertation is available in open access at AURA (https://aura.antioch.edu) and OhioLINK ETD Center (https://etd.ohiolink.edu).

ISBN: 9798382221113Subjects--Topical Terms:

516533
Theology.
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Contextual theology

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