Ecopiety : green media and the dilemma of environmental virtue / Sarah McFarland Taylor.
Confident that your personal good deeds of environmental virtue will save the earth? The stories we encounter about the environment in popular culture too often promote an imagined moral economy, assuring us that tiny acts of voluntary personal piety, such as recycling a coffee cup, or purchasing gr...
| Uniform Title: | Religion and social transformation.
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
New York University Press,
[2019]
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| Series: | Religion and social transformation.
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| Physical Description: | vii, 359 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Restorying the earth: media interventions as moral interventions
- Fifty shades of green: moral licensing, offsets, and transformative works
- I can't! It's a Prius: purity, piety, pollution porn, and coal rolling
- Green is the new black: carbon-sin trackers, reality tv, and green modeling
- Vegetarian vampires: blood, oil, eros, and monstrous consumption
- Composting a life: green burial marketing and storied corpses as media
- Expanding the scope of justice: tattooing and hip hop as ecomedia witnessing tools
- Conclusion. Storying the future: becoming green scheherazades in the anthropocene.