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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... Biblical law and ethics, however, reflect not only the conditions at the time when the texts were edited and accepted as canonical, but also the life of ancient Israel during the First Temple period (ca. 900–587 bce) and earlier ...
... Biblical law and ethics, however, reflect not only the conditions at the time when the texts were edited and accepted as canonical, but also the life of ancient Israel during the First Temple period (ca. 900–587 bce) and earlier ...
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... Biblical law specified in great detail the proper treatment of the soil, animals, and vegetation of the land of Israel in order to maintain Israel's religious ritual purity and moral integrity. This linkage is the distinctive ...
... Biblical law specified in great detail the proper treatment of the soil, animals, and vegetation of the land of Israel in order to maintain Israel's religious ritual purity and moral integrity. This linkage is the distinctive ...
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... biblical parables.28 In one famous parable, fruit trees and vines willingly serve the human in ritual observance by providing oil, fruit, and wine (Judg. 9:8–13). Conversely, nature does God's bidding when it serves to punish and ...
... biblical parables.28 In one famous parable, fruit trees and vines willingly serve the human in ritual observance by providing oil, fruit, and wine (Judg. 9:8–13). Conversely, nature does God's bidding when it serves to punish and ...
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... biblical creation narrative: were the heavens or the earth created first? what are the dimensions of the firmament? The dominant view was that the earth and the heavens are like ''a pot with a cover.'' The ''cover'' was identified with ...
... biblical creation narrative: were the heavens or the earth created first? what are the dimensions of the firmament? The dominant view was that the earth and the heavens are like ''a pot with a cover.'' The ''cover'' was identified with ...
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... biblical creation narratives and rabbinic cosmological speculations in light of Greek and Hellenistic science and philosophy. Whether the world was created ex nihilo or out of preexisting matter was hotly debated. Moses Maimonides (1138 ...
... biblical creation narratives and rabbinic cosmological speculations in light of Greek and Hellenistic science and philosophy. Whether the world was created ex nihilo or out of preexisting matter was hotly debated. Moses Maimonides (1138 ...
Contents
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RELIGION AND ECOLOGY CONFLICTS AND CONNECTIONS | 311 |
RELIGIOUS ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISM | 465 |
Bibliography | 613 |
Index | 633 |
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