[Commlist] new book: Ecopiety: Green Media and the Dilemma of Environmental Virtue

*Ecopiety***

Green Media and the Dilemma of Environmental Virtue

*Sarah McFarland Taylor***

*_https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/ecopiety _**__*

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 green consumer items, can offset our destructive 
habits. No need to make any fundamental structural changes. The trick is 
simply for the consumer to buy the right things and shop our way to a 
greener future.

It’s time for a reality check. /Ecopiety/ offers an absorbing 
examination of the intersections of environmental sensibilities, 
contemporary expressions of piety and devotion, and American popular 
culture. Ranging from portrayals of environmental sin and virtue such as 
the eco-pious depiction of Christian Grey in Fifty Shades of Grey, to 
the green capitalism found in the world of mobile-device “carbon 
sin-tracking” software applications, to the socially conscious 
vegetarian vampires in True Blood, the volume illuminates the work pop 
culture performs as both a mirror and an engine for the greening of 
American spiritual and ethical commitments.

Taylor makes the case that it is not through a framework of grim duty or 
obligation, but through one of play and delight, that we may move 
environmental ideals into substantive action.

*Sarah McFarland Taylor*is Associate Professor in the Department of 
Religious Studies and in the Program in Environmental Policy and Culture 
at Northwestern University. She is the award-winning author of /Green 
Sisters: A Spiritual Ecology./

*New York University Press**| Religion and Social Transformation | 
November 2019 | 368pp | 9781479891313 | PB | £24.99**

*Price subject to change.


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