When God Isn't Green: A World-Wide Journey to Places Where Religious Practice and Environmentalism Collide

by Jay Wexler

In this lively, round-the-world trip, law professor and humorist Jay Wexler explores the intersection of religion and the environment. Did you know that - In Hong Kong and Singapore, Taoists burn paper money to appease "hungry ghosts," filling the air with smoke and dangerous toxins? - In Mumbai, Hindus carry twenty-foot-tall plaster of Paris idols of the elephant god Ganesh into the sea and leave them on the ocean floor to symbolize the impermanence...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807001929
• ISBN13: 9780807001929
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Beacon Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"