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In the face of the environmental crisis, believers from all the world's faith traditions have come to recognize that religion's relation to ecology is of critical importance. Vital new theologies, profound criticisms of the past, and ecologically oriented visions of God, Enlightenment, and human beings have arisen. Religious morality has expanded to include human relations to other species and ecosystems, and religious practice has come to include rituals that express our grief and remorse as well as celebrate what is left. Religious leaders and institutions have committed themselves to a new green gospel, and in countless places across the globe people engage in environmental activism for religious reasons.
This book serves as the definitive scholarly overview of these exciting new developments. Part I explores traditional religious concepts of and attitudes toward nature and how these have been changed by the environmental crisis. Part II analyzes conceptual issues that transcend individual traditions. Part III examines religious participation in environmental politics.
With essays by the leading scholars in the field, many of whom have themselves been instrumental in the rise of religious environmentalism, this Handbook will be invaluable to anyone interested in religion, environmentalism, and the future of our planet.
Contents
Abbreviations ; Contributors ; Introduction: Religion and Ecology-What Is the Connection and Why Does It Matter? ; Roger S. Gottlieb ; Part I: ; Transforming Tradition ; 1. Judaism ; Hava Tirosh-Samuelson ; 2. Catholicism ; John Hart ; 3. The Earth as Sacrament: Insights from Orthodox Christian Theology and Spirituality ; John Chryssavgis ; 4. The World of Nature according to the Protestant Tradition ; H. Paul Santmire and John B. Cobb Jr. ; 5. Jainism and Ecology: Transformation of Tradition ; Christopher Key Chapple ; 6. Hindu Religion and Environmental Well-being ; O. P. Dwivedi ; 7. The Greening of Buddhism: Promise and Perils ; Stephanie Kaza ; 8. Islam ; Richard C. Foltz ; 9. Daoism and Nature ; James Miller ; 10. Motifs for a New Confucian Ecological Vision ; John Berthrong ; 11. Religion and Ecology in African Culture and Society ; Jacob Olupona ; 12. Indigenous Traditions: Religion and Ecology ; John A. Grim ; Part II: ; Religion and Ecology: Conflicts and Connections ; 13. Population, Religion, and Ecology ; Daniel C. Maguire ; 14. Genetic Engineering and Nature: Human and Otherwise ; Thomas A. Shannon ; 15. So Near and Yet So Far: Animal Theology and Ecological Theology ; Andrew Linzey ; 16. Religious Ecofeminism: Healing the Ecological Crisis ; Rosemary Radford Ruether ; 17. Science and Religion in the Face of the Environmental Crisis ; Holmes Rolston III ; 18. Religion and Ecology: Survey of the Field ; Mary Evelyn Tucker ; 19. The Spiritual Dimension of Nature Writing ; David Landis Barnhill ; 20. Religion, Environmentalism, and the Meaning of Ecology ; Lisa H. Sideris ; Part III: ; Religious Environmental Activism ; 21. Religious Environmentalism in Action ; Roger S. Gottlieb ; 22. Religion and Environmental Struggles in Latin America ; Lois Ann Lorentzen and Salvador Leavitt-Alcantara ; 23. African Initiated Churches as Vehicles of Earth-Care in Africa ; Marthinus L. Daneel ; 24. The Scientist and the Shepherd: The Emergence of Evangelical Environmentalism ; Calvin B. DeWitt ; 25. Religion and Environmentalism in America and Beyond ; Bron Taylor ; Bibliography ; Index
