PositiveWashington PostIn his insightful and gripping new book, Philip Jenkins looks at how humans have understood climate convulsions and weather cataclysms in religious terms. Jenkins is perhaps the ideal historian to undertake a project like this, which runs from roughly the 11th century to the present. A professor of history at Baylor University, he is nothing if not prolific ... To this latest effort he brings his typical narrative flair, sweeping coverage and acute analysis ... Jenkins’s sections on witch hunts and satanic panics are some of the most intriguing parts of the book ... Jenkins concludes his study by speculating on what religious conflict might look like in the coming decades, when the impact of climate change is predicted to be even more catastrophic ... Jenkins’s deeply researched and captivating narrative offers readers a glimpse of what may lie ahead.
