Religious Agrarianism and the Return of Place

Todd LeVasseur teaches religious studies and environmental and sustainability studies at the College of Charleston. He is the coeditor (with Pramod Parajuli and Norman Wirzba) of Religion and Sustainable Agriculture: World Spiritual Traditions and Food Ethics and the coeditor (with Anna Peterson) of Religion and Ecological Crisis: The "Lynn White Thesis" at Fifty.

• Acknowledgments Preface 1. Sustainable Religion, Sustainable Ethics?2. Koinonia and Christian Religious Agrarianism3. Hazon and Jewish Religious Agrarianism4. The Local ([Farm] Land)5. Concepts of Health6. Justice for All: From Soil to Worker, from Individual to Community7. Conclusion: A Harvest of IdeasAppendix Notes References Index

"…[LeVasseur]opens the door to a dimension of agricultural sustainability that may otherwise be overlooked … The strength of LeVasseur's research is the mapped trajectory of religious agrarianism's role as an ally against environmental injustice." — Agriculture and Human Values"…the definitive study of contemporary religious agrarianism." — Nova Religio"The blend of empirical sociology and philosophical/religious ethics is impressive. I found the book not only interesting but valuable for my own scholarship." — Paul B. Thompson, author of The Agrarian Vision: Sustainability and Environmental Ethics