Wrestling with Wickedness

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" Wrestling with Wickedness "
Laura Hartman

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1086064
Doc. No	:	LA129693
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15685357-02101006‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Laura Hartman
Title & Author	:	Wrestling with Wickedness [Article]\ Laura Hartman
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology
Date	:	2017
Volume/ Issue Number	:	21/1
Page No	:	87–95
Abstract	:	I question the formulation of complex problems as “wicked,” brainstorming other, more fruitful alternatives to this terminology. Such problems are typically contrasted with “tame” problems; the literature charges that one should not treat a problem as “tame” when it is “wicked.” Given this, I question both the individualistic consumer approach to climate change and a typical approach from the field of religion and ecology, which may only focus on worldview transformation. Both of these are too “tame” to solve climate change. I argue that the problem of climate change should be seen as “wild.” Scholars of religion do have helpful resources to address such mammoth imbroglios, but we must nevertheless honor the problem’s wildness. I question the formulation of complex problems as “wicked,” brainstorming other, more fruitful alternatives to this terminology. Such problems are typically contrasted with “tame” problems; the literature charges that one should not treat a problem as “tame” when it is “wicked.” Given this, I question both the individualistic consumer approach to climate change and a typical approach from the field of religion and ecology, which may only focus on worldview transformation. Both of these are too “tame” to solve climate change. I argue that the problem of climate change should be seen as “wild.” Scholars of religion do have helpful resources to address such mammoth imbroglios, but we must nevertheless honor the problem’s wildness.
Descriptor	:	climate change
Descriptor	:	religion and ecology
Descriptor	:	wicked problems
Descriptor	:	wildness
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15685357-02101006‬