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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... example, one sees very little of the Golden Rule, not to mention ''loving one's enemies'' or eschewing wealth in order to follow Jesus. In supposedly Buddhist Thailand and Hindu India, religious teachings on the importance of ...
... example, one sees very little of the Golden Rule, not to mention ''loving one's enemies'' or eschewing wealth in order to follow Jesus. In supposedly Buddhist Thailand and Hindu India, religious teachings on the importance of ...
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... example, consider the by-now well-known 1997 pronouncement by Bartholomew, spiritual leader of three hundred million orthodox Christians worldwide: ''To commit a crime against the natural world is a sin...to cause species to become ...
... example, consider the by-now well-known 1997 pronouncement by Bartholomew, spiritual leader of three hundred million orthodox Christians worldwide: ''To commit a crime against the natural world is a sin...to cause species to become ...
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... of the forces teaching us how to do it and encouraging us to do so. 8. For example, consider this quote from a leading Protestant. NOTES ......................................................................................
... of the forces teaching us how to do it and encouraging us to do so. 8. For example, consider this quote from a leading Protestant. NOTES ......................................................................................
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Roger S. Gottlieb. 8. For example, consider this quote from a leading Protestant ecotheologian: ''The structural institutions and systemic forms separating the haves and the have-nots in our time, [we must]...name them for what they are ...
Roger S. Gottlieb. 8. For example, consider this quote from a leading Protestant ecotheologian: ''The structural institutions and systemic forms separating the haves and the have-nots in our time, [we must]...name them for what they are ...
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... example, Michael Zimmerman describes the congruence of Nazism and environmentalism in ''Ecofascism: A Threat to American Environmentalism?'' in The Ecological Community (ed. Roger S. Gottlieb; New York: Routledge, 1997). 23. Michael P ...
... example, Michael Zimmerman describes the congruence of Nazism and environmentalism in ''Ecofascism: A Threat to American Environmentalism?'' in The Ecological Community (ed. Roger S. Gottlieb; New York: Routledge, 1997). 23. Michael P ...
Contents
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RELIGION AND ECOLOGY CONFLICTS AND CONNECTIONS | 311 |
RELIGIOUS ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISM | 465 |
Bibliography | 613 |
Index | 633 |
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