Sigurd Bergmann is Professor of Religious Studies at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway. Dieter Gerten is Researcher at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Germany.

• Part I: Setting the Stage; 1. Religion in Climate Change: Challenges Ahead Dieter Gerten & Sigurd Bergmann; 2. Global Change and the Need for New Cosmologies Wolfgang Lucht; Part II: Religion and Climate Change: Global Perspectives and Present Trends; 3. Climate Change and the Evolution of Faith Martin Schonfeld; 4. Climate Justice and the Dignity of Creation: The Christian Understanding of Creation and Its Holistic Implications Friedrich Lohmann; 5. Climate Justice from a Christian Point of View: Challenges for a New Definition of Wealth Markus Vogt; 6. Is the Climate Changing? The Religious Climate Toward Global Warming in the US Laurel Kearns; 7. Evangelicals and Climate Change Michael Roberts; Part III: Climate Change, Culture and Development; 8. Religion in the Public Sphere: Understanding Religion in Times of Climate Change and Global Poverty Michael Reder; 9. Global Governance, Values and Lifestyles in a Multipolar World Imme Scholz; 10. Religion and Environmental Change: Perspectives and Aspects from Europe's History Holger Sonnabend; 11. A Case for an Intercultural Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Timothy Leduc; Part IV: Regional Belief Systems in Climate and Environmental Change: Case Studies; 12. Religious Perspectives on Climate Change Impacts Among Indigenous Communities: Questons and Challenges for Ethnographical Research Lioba Rossbach de Olmos; 13. Exploring the Local Effects of Unprecedented Climate Change in the Belief and Cosmology for Sakha of North-Eastern Siberai, Russia Susan Crate; 14. Jaiychylyk: Harmonising People's Needs and the Will of Nature Gulnara Aitpaeva; 15. Indigenous People Under Climate Change: Regions Examples from Indonesia Undine Fromming & Christian Reichel; 16. Belief Systems: The Twin Eye to Science Godfrey Walalaze; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

The book is well structured and has an easily recognizable line of argument: the indispensable function of religion in facing the challenge of global environmental change as a source for interpretative keys, moral values, and proposals for alternative lifestyles and political solutions ... the book altogether fulfills its goal of "establish[ing] the research field 'religion in climate change' and identify[ing] avenues for future research across disciplines"