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001 2009019054
003 DLC
005 20100609083356.0
008 090512s2010 pau b s001 0 eng
010 $a 2009019054
020 $a9780271035819 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 $a0271035811 (cloth : alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn323195561
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050 00 $aHB72$b.N453 2010
082 00 $a261.8/50973$222
100 1 $aNelson, Robert H.$q(Robert Henry),$d1944-
245 14 $aThe new holy wars :$beconomic religion vs. environmental religion in contemporary America /$cRobert H. Nelson.
260 $aUniversity Park, Pa. :$bPennsylvania State University Press ;$a[Oakland, Calif.] :$bPublished in cooperation with the Independent Institute,$cc2010.
300 $axxiv, 388 p. ;$c25 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: Economic and environmental religions -- The false God of economic salvation. What is "economic theology"? -- Theologies of 9/11 -- How much is God worth? -- Sustainability, efficiency, and God -- All in the name of progress -- Environmental Calvinism. Unoriginal sin -- Calvinism minus God -- Environmental creationism. Ecological science as a creation story -- Environmental creationism and Christian creationism -- Re-creating the creation -- Environmental colonialism : "saving" Africa from Africans -- Environmentalism and libertarianism. Frank Knight and economic Calvinism -- Libertarian environmentalism -- Conclusion: Religious challenges.
520 $a"Examines economics and environmentalism as competing public religions that derive from, and continue, a Christian worldview; argues that debates over global warming and other environmental issues are ultimately based on theological differences between their respective adherents"--Provided by publisher.
650 0 $aEconomics$xReligious aspects$xChristianity.
650 0 $aEnvironmentalism$xReligious aspects$xChristianity.
650 0 $aEconomics$zUnited States.
650 0 $aEnvironmentalism$zUnited States.