عنوان

Protestantism, Anxiety and Orientations to the Environment:

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LA129454

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Title Proper

Protestantism, Anxiety and Orientations to the Environment:

General Material Designation

[Article]

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Sweden as a Test Case for the Ideas of Richard Sennett

First Statement of Responsibility

Hilary Stanworth

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Leiden

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Brill

Text of Note

This paper examines how Protestant beliefs can influence orientations to the natural and built environment. Sweden is taken as a test case for a critical evaluation of Richard Sennett's American-focused claims that Protestant-induced anxieties encourage moves to create bland, neutralised environments in which temptation and contact with distractingly different others can be minimised. The paper documents ways in which Swedish environmental orientations fail to fit with Sennett's account and elaborates how Protestantism has the potential to generate a wider range of outcomes than he recognises. It then suggests that variations in the impact the same religion may have produced in the Swedish and American context might be linked to cross-societal differences in the relation between the individual and the collective, and in the role of the state. This paper examines how Protestant beliefs can influence orientations to the natural and built environment. Sweden is taken as a test case for a critical evaluation of Richard Sennett's American-focused claims that Protestant-induced anxieties encourage moves to create bland, neutralised environments in which temptation and contact with distractingly different others can be minimised. The paper documents ways in which Swedish environmental orientations fail to fit with Sennett's account and elaborates how Protestantism has the potential to generate a wider range of outcomes than he recognises. It then suggests that variations in the impact the same religion may have produced in the Swedish and American context might be linked to cross-societal differences in the relation between the individual and the collective, and in the role of the state.

Date of Publication

2006

Physical description

295-325

Title

Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology

Volume Number

10/3

International Standard Serial Number

1568-5357

Subject Term

ENVIRONMENT

Subject Term

PROTESTANTISM

Subject Term

SENNETT

Subject Term

SWEDEN

Subject Term

URBAN

Hilary Stanworth

Call Number

10.1163/156853506778942086

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[Article]

275578

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