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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... Environmentalism in Action,'' first appeared in A Greener Faith: Religious Environmentalism and Our Planet's Future (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006). ......................................................................
... Environmentalism in Action,'' first appeared in A Greener Faith: Religious Environmentalism and Our Planet's Future (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006). ......................................................................
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... Environmentalism, 568 Calvin B. DeWitt Religion and Environmentalism in America and Beyond, 588 Bron Taylor Bibliography, 613 Index, 633 This page intentionally left blank Abbreviations AAEC AIC AZTREC COEJL contents xi.
... Environmentalism, 568 Calvin B. DeWitt Religion and Environmentalism in America and Beyond, 588 Bron Taylor Bibliography, 613 Index, 633 This page intentionally left blank Abbreviations AAEC AIC AZTREC COEJL contents xi.
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... environmentalism, and disability. He is editor of five academic book series; book review editor of Social Theory and Practice and Capitalism, Nature, Socialism; on the editorial board of Worldviews; and has a column in the national ...
... environmentalism, and disability. He is editor of five academic book series; book review editor of Social Theory and Practice and Capitalism, Nature, Socialism; on the editorial board of Worldviews; and has a column in the national ...
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... environmentalists that pious words about ''caring for God's creation'' or ''having compassion on all sentient beings'' will not come to much unless there are dramatic changes in the way we produce and consume, grow food and get from ...
... environmentalists that pious words about ''caring for God's creation'' or ''having compassion on all sentient beings'' will not come to much unless there are dramatic changes in the way we produce and consume, grow food and get from ...
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... environmentalists must engage in the political process: making alliances, promoting a partisan point of view, compromising certain principles in order to win on other issues. Above all, this kind of political activism is aimed at ...
... environmentalists must engage in the political process: making alliances, promoting a partisan point of view, compromising certain principles in order to win on other issues. Above all, this kind of political activism is aimed at ...
Contents
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RELIGION AND ECOLOGY CONFLICTS AND CONNECTIONS | 311 |
RELIGIOUS ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISM | 465 |
Bibliography | 613 |
Index | 633 |
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