Abstract
Religions react to changing socio-economic circumstances, political domination, and above all, to new ideas. These traditionally arrived from missionaries, traders and returning pilgrims but increasingly from books and most recently from the media. The resulting changes can be drastic and rapid as we have seen in the origins of Christianity and Islam.
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© 2002 Ralph Tanner and Colin Mitchell
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Tanner, R., Mitchell, C. (2002). Socio-economic Activities and the Environment. In: Religion and the Environment. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230286344_7
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