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Religious Responses to Earthquake and Volcanic Eruption Disasters

Religious Responses to Earthquake and Volcanic Eruption Disasters

Chester, David
Duncan, Angus
Duncan, John

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Series: Routledge Studies in Hazards, Disaster Risk and Climate Chan

General SociologyGeography

ISBN10: 1032276053
ISBN13: 9781032276052
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Nov 28 2025
Pages: 246
Weight: 0.82
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book argues that, although secular and religious perspectives on disasters have often conflicted, today there are grounds for believing that the world's major faiths have much to contribute to the processes of post-disaster recovery and future disaster risk reduction (DRR).

It seeks to demonstrate how contemporary dialogues between theologians, disaster scholars and policymakers are defining new ways of working together. These explore how the resources of religious communities, e.g. buildings, human resources and finance, may be used to foster successful policies of DRR, particularly in the aftermath of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. Musing on the relationships between religion and disasters has occurred for millennia and has affected many societies worldwide. In societies where the world's major religions - Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism and Shinto - have been and remain dominant, attempting to find supernatural explanations for disasters has occurred throughout history and there have been many theologies seeking to explain why people suffer losses. It is argued that developments both within these traditions of faith and in how disasters are understood by the hazard research community of researchers and planners have allowed a new modus vivendi to emerge which emphasises both a recognition of religious worldviews by academic writers and disaster planners on the one hand, and a desire by people of faith and their leaders to be more fully committed to the goals of DRR.

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