Troubling waters: the Jordan River between religious imagination and environmental degradation

Christiana Peppard ()

Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, 2013, vol. 3, issue 2, 109-119

Abstract: Rivers are essential, environmental circulatory systems. They are also polyvalent repositories for religious and cultural meanings. This essay wades into the murky waters of the Jordan River and charts its shape from sociopolitical, environmental, and religious perspectives. Hovering in the Jordan’s polysemic eddies, we find quandaries that are epistemic as well as ethical. This essay orients ethical reflection on the disjuncture between the symbolic stature of the Jordan River and its materially degraded status. Copyright AESS 2013

Keywords: Jordan River; Degradation of riparian systems; Fresh water; Climate change; Symbolic stature; Environmental degradation; Bodies of water; Waters of memory; Ideational landscape; Holy waters; Middle East; Israel; Palestine; Kingdom of Jordan; Environmental ethics; Christian ethics; Religion; Ecology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1007/s13412-013-0116-1

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