How social movements use religious creativity to address environmental crises in Indonesian local communities

Smith, Jonathan Davis and Adam, Ronald and Maarif, Samsul (2024) How social movements use religious creativity to address environmental crises in Indonesian local communities. GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS, 84. ISSN 0959-3780

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Abstract

Religions play an important yet poorly understood part in how social movements motivate societies to respond to environmental crises and the rapidly changing climate. Indonesia sits on the global frontline of environmental crises, with a rich history of religious diversity and environmental activism. Using framework synthesis, we analyzed 244 empirical studies (English and Indonesian) on 208 environmental social movements operating in local communities in Indonesia from 1990 through 2022. We developed a conceptual model showing how grassroots movements used lived religion to create new environmental practices and motivate environmental behavioral changes in diverse local communities. Our study inventoried 571 examples of lived religious concepts, practices, rituals and systems that movements used to create environmental concepts and practices. We found three patterns in the creative process: 1) conceptual hybridization, meaning that movements often blended official religions, Indigenous religions, and local knowledges and traditions (often called cultural practices), and they fused these aspects of lived religion with economic, legal and scientific concepts; 2) contextual imagination, meaning that movements adopted multiple religious and other strategies to respond to local economic, envi-ronmental, political, and religio-cultural contexts; and, 3) contestation-driven improvisation, meaning that movements faced intense opposition, and this dynamic both motivated improvisation and increased the vulnerability of movements and of local communities adapting to rapid environmental change. We propose that future studies on adaptation and sustainable transitions could include lived eco-religion as a meeting point for critical partnerships between environmental scholars in the sciences and the humanities.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: Adaptation; Community based natural resource; management; Framework synthesis; Lived religion; Local grassroots environmental movements; Sustainable transitions
Subjects: B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BL Religion
Divisions: The Graduate School
Depositing User: Sri JUNANDI
Date Deposited: 01 Nov 2024 07:20
Last Modified: 01 Nov 2024 07:20
URI: https://ir.lib.ugm.ac.id/id/eprint/10173

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