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Beyond Belief – List of Chapters

Chapter 1.          Beyond Belief (Patrick Nunn and Johannes Luetz)

Looking back to the future: the clash of religion and secularism

Chapter 2.          Ecology, War and Nuclear Testing in the Pacific: The Path of Reconciliation (Clive W. Ayre, Karenne Hills and Johannes Luetz)

Chapter 3.          Religious and cultural-spiritual attributions of climate-driven changes on food production: a case study from North Malaita, Solomon Islands (Zina Bird, Morgan Wairiu, Helene Jacot Des Combes and Viliamu Iese)

On the road to Radifasu, Malaita (Photo: Irene Scott/Wikimedia Commons)

The roots of spirituality and religion in the Pacific islands region

Chapter 4.          Leveraging Vanua: Metaphysics, Nature, and Climate Change Adaptation in Fiji (Francisco Gelves-Gómez and Shannon Brincat)

Chapter 5.          Gods, spirits and natural hazards: Ontologies and epistemologies of natural hazards and climate change in Kiribati and Papua New Guinea (Guy Jackson and Annah Piggott-McKellar)

Chapter 6.          Climate Justice and God’s Justice in the Pacific: Climate Change Adaptation and Martin Luther (Richard Davies)

Religion as culture, religion for wellbeing

Chapter 7.          Cyclone Winston: Catholic women’s faith and agency in a coastal village in Fiji (Shirleen Sahai, Tammy Tabe, Jacqueline Ryle)

Chapter 8.          Signs of “the End Times”: Perspectives on Climate Change among Market Sellers in Madang, Papua New Guinea (Kylie McKenna and Lorelle Tekopiri Yakam)

Madang, Papua New Guinea (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)

Chapter 9.          Climate Change and Eschatology (Kurt Bangert)

Chapter 10.        Standing in the Middle of the Ocean: Time for a Public Theology (Clive Pearson)

Weaving worldviews: science and spirituality together

Chapter 11.        Paddling on Both Sides of the Canoe: Toward a Consilience of Science and Spirituality in Climate Change Response (Rowan Gard)

Chapter 12.        Climate Change: Science, People, Religion—Cord of Three Strands (Peni Hausia Havea and Antoine De Ramon N’Yeurt)

Chapter 13.        Influence of spiritual beliefs on autonomous climate-change adaptation: a case study from Ono Island, southern Fiji (Jalasayi Atkinson-Nolte, Patrick D. Nunn, Prudence Millear)

Methodist church, Narikoso, Ono Island, Fiji (Photo: Daniela Medina Hidalgo)

Chapter 14.        For Kin, God and Other Beings: Mixtures of Conservation Practice in Raja Ampat, West Papua (Ian N. Parker)

Belief and action: a way forward?

Chapter 15.        Pacific Climate Warriors and Local Narratives on Climate Change: An Analysis of a Faith-informed Indigenous Rhetoric (Claudia Ledderucci)

Pacific Climate Warriors 2019 (Wikimedia Commons)

Chapter 16.        How does faith influence pro-environmental practice in schools? Examples from the Pacific Islands (Thelma Raman and Johannes Luetz)

Faith for survival

Chapter 17.        Wonders in the Heavens Above, Signs on the Earth Below: Pacific Islands Pentecostalism, Climate Change and Acts 2 (John D. Griffiths)

Chapter 18.        Christianity, Creation, and the Climate Crisis: Eco-theological Paradigms and Perspectives (Johannes Luetz and Richard Leo)

Chapter 19.        Faith and a Sustainable Pacific (Clive W. Ayre)

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