Description
Spirit of the Environment brings spiritual and religious concerns to environmental issues. Providing a much needed alternative to exploring human beings' relationship to the natural world through the restrictive lenses of 'science', 'ecology', or even 'morality', this book offers a fresh perspective to the field.
Spirit of the Enironment addresses:
* the environmental attitudes of the major religions;
* the relationship between art and nature;
* the Gaia hypothesis;
* the non-instrumental values which have inspired environmental concern.
Contributors range from a variety of disciplines including philosophy, comparative religion, education and social anthropology, providing students with an intriguing survey on the role that spirituality and religion play in nature.
This is a vital collection for those eager to examine the relationship between the spiritual and the environment.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Indian religious traditions, Purushottama Bilimoria; Chapter 2 Chinese religion and ecology, Martin Palmer; Chapter 3 Religion and nature, All-Holiness Bartolomeus, Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg, Fazlun Khalid, Martin Palmer; Chapter 4 Pantheism, Stephen R.L. Clark; Chapter 5 The real, the one and the many in ecological thought, Freya Mathews; Chapter 6 The recovery of wisdom, Anne Primavesi; Chapter 7 Nature and the environment in indigenous and traditional cultures, Kay Milton; Chapter 8 Aestheticism and environmentalism, David E. Cooper; Chapter 9 The Romantics’ view of nature, Greg Garrard; Chapter 10 Philosophy and the environmental movement, Kate Rawles; Chapter 11 Spiritual ideas, environmental concerns and educational practice, Joy A. Palmer; Chapter 12 Spirit of middle earth, Richard Smith;
