The Oxford Handbook of Religion and EcologyRoger S. Gottlieb Oxford University Press, 9. nov 2006 - 688 pages The last two decades have seen the emergence of a new field of academic study that examines the interaction between religion and ecology. Theologians from every religious tradition have confronted world religions past attitudes towards nature and acknowledged their own faiths complicity in the environmental crisis. Out of this confrontation have been born vital new theologies based in the recovery of marginalized elements of tradition, profound criticisms of the past, and ecologically oriented visions of God, the Sacred, the Earth, and human beings. The proposed handbook will serve as the definitive overview of these exciting new developments. Divided into three main sections, the books essays will reflect the three dominant dimensions of the field. Part one will explore traditional religious concepts of and attitudes towards nature and how these have been changed by the environmental crisis. Part II looks at larger conceptual issues that transcend individual traditions. Part III will examine religious participation in environmental politics. |
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... Torah, Laws of Kings 6.10. 2. There is no end of websites, books, articles, and so on, which detail the crisis. One excellent summary of the dismal facts is Frederic Buell, From Apocalypse to Way of Life (New York: Routledge, 2004). 3 ...
... Torah, Laws of Kings 6.10. 2. There is no end of websites, books, articles, and so on, which detail the crisis. One excellent summary of the dismal facts is Frederic Buell, From Apocalypse to Way of Life (New York: Routledge, 2004). 3 ...
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... Torah) revealed to God's chosen people, Israel, the Bible was canonized as sacred scripture during the Second Temple period (516 bce–70 ce). Biblical law and ethics, however, reflect not only the conditions at the time when the texts ...
... Torah) revealed to God's chosen people, Israel, the Bible was canonized as sacred scripture during the Second Temple period (516 bce–70 ce). Biblical law and ethics, however, reflect not only the conditions at the time when the texts ...
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... Torah. Precisely because nature is created, Judaism does not take nature to be inherently sacred or worthy of veneration. In fact, such worship is precisely what the Bible considers to be idolatry,1 which monotheism is determined to ...
... Torah. Precisely because nature is created, Judaism does not take nature to be inherently sacred or worthy of veneration. In fact, such worship is precisely what the Bible considers to be idolatry,1 which monotheism is determined to ...
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... Torah to their legal deliberations. Together the written Torah and the oral Torah constituted the ideal way of life that all Jews should follow.5 By 600 ce the Judaism of the rabbis would become normative. Pharisaic-rabbinic Judaism was ...
... Torah to their legal deliberations. Together the written Torah and the oral Torah constituted the ideal way of life that all Jews should follow.5 By 600 ce the Judaism of the rabbis would become normative. Pharisaic-rabbinic Judaism was ...
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... Torah caused the distancing of religious Jews from the natural world. Since the commandment to study Torah was presented as the most important commandment, equivalent in worth to all other commandments combined, a rabbinic text declares ...
... Torah caused the distancing of religious Jews from the natural world. Since the commandment to study Torah was presented as the most important commandment, equivalent in worth to all other commandments combined, a rabbinic text declares ...
Contents
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RELIGION AND ECOLOGY CONFLICTS AND CONNECTIONS | 311 |
RELIGIOUS ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISM | 465 |
Bibliography | 613 |
Index | 633 |
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