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- Title
Catholic Sisters and Cornfield Activism: The Fight for Green Religious Rights.
- Authors
Clatterbuck, Mark
- Abstract
Since 2016, the Adorers of the Blood of Christ, an international order of Catholic women, have partnered with a grassroots movement called Lancaster Against Pipelines (LAP) to resist construction of a $3B frackedgas pipeline in rural Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Together, the groups built an outdoor chapel blockade that became a locus of earth-honoring ceremonies and a pilgrimage site for eco-activists in the region. It also served as the focal point for a series of peaceful direct actions against pipeline construction that resulted in twenty-nine arrests. The Adorers-LAP partnership is an important case study in a growing movement of faithfueled environmental activism across the United States today. Specifically, it offers valuable lessons on the possibilities for creative grassroots cooperation across religious divides, the use of religious ritual as a tool of resistance, the experience of women who often lead these movements, and current trends in judicial responses to faith-inspired eco-activism.
- Subjects
LANCASTER County (Pa.); GREEN movement; ENVIRONMENTAL activism; GRASSROOTS movements; DIRECT action; CATHOLIC women
- Publication
Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature & Culture, 2022, Vol 16, Issue 2, p264
- ISSN
1749-4907
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1558/jsrnc.20043