Lucas Faure, collective feature: «Forms of participation by religious actors in environmentalism: between conversion and convergence of movements» (Participations)
Lucas Faure, Adrien Estève and Sylvie Ollitrault (eds.), «Forms of participation by religious actors in environmentalism: between conversion and convergence of movements», Shareholdings, No. 44, 2026/1.
Presentation:
The aim of this thematic dossier is to examine the involvement of religious actors in environmental issues, and more generally the practices and discourses that link religious commitment with engagement in environmental issues. It focuses in particular on two phenomena: from the perspective of activism, the dual process of the reshaping of religious commitment and its hybridisation with environmental commitments; and, from an institutional perspective, the participation of religious institutions in political debates on environmental issues. The general hypothesis is that the dual process of reshaping and hybridisation of religious actors’ commitments has an impact on their attitudes, on how they define their social and political participation and, by extension, on the religious institutions to which they claim affiliation. In this introduction to the thematic dossier, the aim is first and foremost to situate it within the existing literature on the hybridisation of ecological and religious commitments in political science, by highlighting its contributions to the analysis of the ways in which religious actors participate in and position themselves in relation to environmental debates and policies. Secondly, the introduction seeks to foster a dialogue between the articles by identifying, within their analyses, the trajectories, discourses and frames of reference of religious actors in the field of ecology that can explain the various ways in which they have undergone ecological conversion.
Contents
Introduction. From conversion to participation: the entry of religious figures into the environmental movement
Pages 7 to 21 – 23 minutes – Journal article
Green is in the fruit: elective affinities and ethical affinities between Catholicism and ecology
Pages 23 to 46 – 36 minutes – Journal article
- By Julie Blanc
Rechannelling religious and political aspirations at a local level. Environmental awareness and the legitimisation of the cultural petty bourgeoisie in rural areas
Pages 47 to 72 – 39 minutes – Journal article
- By Florian Police
The invention of a form of activism: masters of ecology and religion
Pages 73 to 97 – 38 minutes – Journal article
- By Sylvie Ollitrault
Taking part in the review of bioethics legislation: the Catholic Church’s advocacy for environmentalism (2018–2020)
Pages 99 to 121 – 35 minutes – Journal article
- By Séverine Mathieu
A minority group’s «return to nature». Forms of environmental engagement amongst Muslims in Brussels
Pages 123 to 147 – 38 minutes – Journal article
- By Lucas Faure
