Engaging with Climate Grief, Guilt, and Anger in Religious Communities

Religions, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 15(9), С. 1052 - 1052

Опубликована: Авг. 29, 2024

Climate change evokes many kinds of emotions, which have an impact on people’s behavior. This article focuses three major climate emotions—guilt, grief, and anger—and other closely related emotional phenomena, such as anxiety/distress. The explores ways in these emotions could be engaged with constructively religious communities, a certain emphasis Christian, monotheistic, Buddhist communities. These communities special resources for engaging guilt but they often profound difficulty working constructive anger. can affect each are probed, the complex dynamics given attention. Based work psychologists Tara Brach Miriam Greenspan, four-step method is proposed discussed: self-reflection, exploration various forms contextualization, creative application methods to channel energies emotions. draws from interdisciplinary research eco-emotions, religion ecology studies, psychology.

Язык: Английский

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“Feeling your emotions is an act of rebellion:” How climate cafés across Canada support youth wellbeing during the climate crisis

Social Science & Medicine, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown, С. 118002 - 118002

Опубликована: Март 1, 2025

Язык: Английский

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Ecological Grief and the Dual Process Model of Coping with Bereavement

Religions, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 16(4), С. 411 - 411

Опубликована: Март 24, 2025

The Dual Process Model of Coping with Bereavement (DPM, by Stroebe and Schut) is a well-known framework in contemporary grief research counselling. It depicts how mourners oscillate between various tasks reactions. There need to engage more the intense feelings loss (Loss-Oriented tasks), but also other things life parts adjustment process after (Restoration-Oriented tasks). This interdisciplinary article applies ecological extends it collective levels. While DPM has been broadened family dynamics, many subjects are even require mourning from whole communities or societies. Religious can play an important role this. provides new application called DPM-EcoSocial discusses named it, which ultimately based on researcher Worden’s work. particularities discussed, such as complications caused guilt climate change denial, attribution differences about disasters, nonfinite losses. Grief grievance intimately connected grief, (religious) have for remembrance, mourning, witness. processes lead meaning reconstruction, transilience, adversarial growth.

Язык: Английский

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Towards a unified conceptual framework of eco-anxiety: mapping eco-anxiety through a scoping review

Cogent Mental Health, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 4(1), С. 1 - 48

Опубликована: Апрель 17, 2025

Язык: Английский

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Victims or Vanguards? The Discursive Construction of the Anthropocene Generation and Climate Change Education’s Hopeful, Resilient, Post-Political Subject

Опубликована: Янв. 1, 2024

Education is increasingly recognized as an essential part of the solution to climate crisis. Yet complex relationship between change education (CCE) and how children young people Anthropocene are discursively constituted remains under-theorized. This chapter critically explores discursive construction youth who make up generation, with particular reference overlapping representative framings this generation in terms their innocence/vulnerability, exceptionalism/heroism, mental health/eco-anxiety, agency/activism. We highlight what invisibilized, obscured, or neglected within these interwoven frames discuss they undercut meaningful social educational responses Central our analysis ideal learning subject that emerges from generation. hopeful, resilient, post-political figure obscures more uncomfortable realities about some youths' implication ecological crisis; occludes nuanced expansive encounters responsibility vulnerability; bolsters a misguided pedagogical preoccupation fostering "hope," "optimism," "resilience" which reinscribe "business usual (but greener)" (BAU-G) politics rather than system so desperately required.

Язык: Английский

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Ecological Sorrow: Types of Grief and Loss in Ecological Grief

Опубликована: Ноя. 15, 2023

Ecological changes evoke many felt losses and types of grief. These affect sustainability efforts in profound ways. Scholarship on the topic is growing, but relationship between general grief research ecological has received surprisingly little attention. This interdisciplinary article applies theories grief, loss, bereavement to Special attention given about “non-death loss” other broad frameworks Dynamics related both local global are discussed. Kinds potential arising out issues clarified with tangible/intangible ambiguous nonfinite shattered assumptions. Various possible illuminated by discussing chronic sorrow anticipatory grief/mourning. Earlier scholarship disenfranchised augmented further distinctions various forms it may take. The difficulties defining complicated or prolonged context discussed, four “complicated grief” explored. Based findings, three special loss named discussed: transitional lifeworld dreams. implications results for scholarship, counselling coping briefly can be used psychological healthcare professionals researchers, also members public who wish reflect their eco-emotions.

Язык: Английский

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Victims or Vanguards? The Discursive Construction of the Anthropocene Generation and Climate Change Education’s Hopeful, Resilient, Post-Political Subject

Опубликована: Янв. 1, 2024

Язык: Английский

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