Climate Anxiety and Spiritual Resilience: A Guide to Kinship, Justice, and Hope

Religious and Indigenous practices that counter despair, cultivate courage, and sustain moral action in the fight for environmental justice.Climate change is an ecological and political crisis, but it is also a spiritual one.Fractured relationships with the natural systems that sustain us and frustration with leaders’ seeming inability to respond, has led many to grief, despair, burnout, and moral exhaustion.Indeed, current research on eco-anxiety and climate grief show that emotional overwhelm undermines collective action, even when solutions are known and available. But there is a path forward, one found within religious and Indigenous traditions that have long cultivated practices for living with loss, sustaining hope, and acting ethically within fragile ecosystems.By bringing the psychology of climate grief into conversation with Indigenous and religious traditions, this book offers a framework for moving beyond paralysis toward resilient, justice-centered engagement.Each chapter d