Religious agrarianism and the return of place : from values to practice in sustainable agriculture / Todd LeVasseur.

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Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Chapter One: Sustainable Religion, Sustainable Ethics?; Taking Stock: Why This Project?; Religion, the Environment, and the United States; Theory and Method: Lived Religion; Theory and Method: Network Theory; Theory and Method: Grounded Theory; Religious Agrarian Communities; Why Religious Values?; Why Study Food?; Why Study Farming?; Industrial Agriculture/Farming; Sustainable Agriculture/Farming; Sustainable Agriculture: Land Health; Sustainable Worldview: Community Health and the Local

Sustainable Worldview: Spiritual Health; Sustainable Worldview: Ecology/Natural Systems; The Return of "Place"; Sustainable Versus Industrial Agriculture; Whither Agrarianism?; Religious Agrarianism -- Chapter Two: Koinonia and Christian Religious Agrarianism; Lay of the Land; A Demonstration Plot for God; Clarence Jordan; Koinonia in the 1960s; Koinonia From the 1970s Through the 1980s; Koinonia in the 1990s; Koinonia in the 2000s Through Today; Koinonia's Current Structure and Vision; New Monasticism and Schools for Conversion

The Agrarian Example of Koinonia; A Brief History of Christian Farming; Ecological Ethics, Sustainability, and Christianity -- Chapter Three: Hazon and Jewish Religious Agrarianism; The Spirit of Adamah; Politics and Judaism in the United States; Judaism, Ecology, and Relationships with the Land; Jewish Agrarianism in the United States; Jewish Environmental Thought; A US Jewish Vision of Transformation; Shearith Israel; Lived Jewish Farming Networks -- Chapter Four: The Local ([Farm] Land); Localizing Agrarianism; Religion, Ethics, and Land

Bioregional Thought about the Land; Taking a Stand in, on, and of the Land; Jewish Values and Practices about the Land; Fresh and Local; Local Health; Hazon and the Local; Christian Values and Practices about the Land; The Sacredness of Local Creation; Designing Locality; Demonstrating Permaculture on a Local Scale; Farming Practices that Benefit the Local; Hazon; Koinonia; The Local: Coda -- Chapter Five: Concepts of Health; From Soil to Bodies, Health Matters; Human Health; Spiritual Health; Physical Health

Farm Health; Societal Health; Animal and Soil Health; Planetary Health -- Chapter Six: Justice for All: From Soil to Worker, from Individual to Community; A Concern for Justice; Politics and Food; Justice in the Future -- Chapter Seven: Conclusion: A Harvest of Ideas; A Changing Landscape (of Farmlands and Religious Studies); Revisiting the "Religion" in Religious Agrarianism; Place/s, Boundaries, Resilience, and Ecophenomenology: New Futures for Religion; Closing Arguments -- Appendix -- Notes -- References

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