1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911009293603321

Autore

Peya Michel Innocent

Titolo

Nature's Ultimatum : The Stakes and Prospects of the United States' Urgent Return to the Climate Battle

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Paris : , : Editions L'Harmattan, , 2022

©2022

ISBN

9782140201486

2140201485

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 p.)

Soggetti

Climate change mitigation

Environmental policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

In this book, Michel Innocent Peya focuses on "climate finance" and the withdrawal and return of the world's leading power, the United States, in the battle against climate change, by assessing its real financial impact in order to fight collectively against the ultimatum given by nature. The States are determined to take up the challenge and assume their responsibilities, as the Biden administration has done, in order to wage the "people's battle" against global warming and the perils that it may cause in the medium term. A vibrant appeal is launched to all the world's decision-makers as well as to state and non-state actors. As the years go by, the planet is experiencing rising temperatures and precipitation is constantly increasing. These are the results of a multiform pollution that threatens the existence of nations. Our beautiful nature is being devastated by greenhouse gas emissions and ever-increasing waste. The few world powers, those that can be qualified as major polluters, are few in number but threaten the balance of our system to the detriment of collective well-being. What will become of our planet, our environment, if the community of polluters continues to refuse to take its responsibilities?



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911046697603321

Autore

Hayes John <1972->

Titolo

Hard, Hard Religion : Interracial Faith in the Poor South / / John Hayes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill : , : University of North Carolina Press, , [2017]

Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2017

©[2017]

ISBN

9798890843043

9798890843050

9781469635330

146963533X

9781469635347

1469635348

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (pages cm)

Collana

New directions in southern studies

Disciplina

270.0975

277.5

Soggetti

Folklore - Southern States

Working class - Religious life - Southern States

Christianity - Southern States - 20th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Beneath the Bible Belt -- The making of the poor South -- Singing of death--and life -- Tales of conversion and call -- Sacramental expressions -- The ethics of neighborliness -- Conclusion: The unraveling of the folk Christian world.

Sommario/riassunto

In his captivating study of faith and class, John Hayes examines the ways folk religion in the early twentieth century allowed the South's poor--both white and black--to listen, borrow, and learn from each other about what it meant to live as Christians in a world of severe struggle. Beneath the well-documented religious forms of the New South, people caught in the region's poverty crafted a distinct folk Christianity that spoke from the margins of capitalist development, giving voice to modern phenomena like alienation and disenchantment.



Through haunting songs of death, mystical tales of conversion, grassroots sacramental displays, and an ethic of neighborliness, impoverished folk Christians looked for the sacred in their midst and affirmed the value of this life in this world. From Tom Watson and W. E. B. Du Bois over a century ago to political commentators today, many have ruminated on how, despite material commonalities, the poor of the South have been perennially divided by racism. Through his excavation of a folk Christianity of the poor, which fused strands of African and European tradition into a new synthesis, John Hayes recovers a historically contingent moment of interracial exchange generated in hardship.