Religious Green Innovations: Technologies, Communities and Sustainability

This book explores how religious traditions can play a decisive role in addressing the complexity of the current environmental crisis by taking the ecological recommendations promoted by religious and political actors to the ground of individual and community experiences. It observes how religious institutions have elaborated their “eco-religious” message by reinterpreting their texts and doctrines and how their communities have reacted. The book also focuses on new usages of spaces and resources through the intermediation of technological devices, as well as accelerated processes of technological innovation within religious groups that once would have shown great resistance. This book is of importance to scholars of not just the humanities, but also to scientists looking to deepen their understanding of religion and sustainability.

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Alessandra Vitullo is research fellow at Sapienza University of Rome, where she teaches Sociology of Communication and Sociology ofMigration. She is the associate director of the Network for New Media Religion and Digital Culture Studies, and the scientific coordinator of the Religions and Social Change Lab at Sapienza University. She was researcher for several universities and research centers, such as Texas A&M University, KU Leuven, Uppsala University, Bicocca University of Milan, and the Bruno Kessler Foundation. Her latest book The Religionautes: Studying Homo Religiosus in the Time Of the Web, was published in Italian in 2021. Alessandra Vitullo is currently working on a 5 years research project titled: Eco-religious: believe in sustenaiblity.

Alessandro Saggioro is Full Professor of History of Religions at Sapienza, University of Rome. He was president of the University Council for the History of Religions, and is currently delegate of the Magnifica Rettrice in the RUniPace Network, and Coordinator of the Phd Course in History and Culture of Europe and Deputy Director of the Department of History Anthropology Religions Art Entertainment. Alessandro Saggioro is also director of the Studi e Materiale di Storia delle Religioni journal, and of the series Chi siamo - History of religions; Quaderni di Simbologia del vestire, and Shamanic Sapienza series which he co-directs with S. Botta. His areas of interest include the dynamics of pluralism, mythology, sacred spaces, methodology and historiography of the history of religions.