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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... human in this one. And in any case the goal of a realized Buddhist (at least in the Mahayana tradition) was to ease the suffering of ''all sentient beings,'' not just of people. Often, however, this more encouraging metaphysical ...
... human in this one. And in any case the goal of a realized Buddhist (at least in the Mahayana tradition) was to ease the suffering of ''all sentient beings,'' not just of people. Often, however, this more encouraging metaphysical ...
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... humanity's own worth. 5. Loss of wilderness is seen in the increasing rarity of ecosystems that are free to develop without human interference or intrusion. Besides the dwindling of biodiversity that this entails, human beings face a ...
... humanity's own worth. 5. Loss of wilderness is seen in the increasing rarity of ecosystems that are free to develop without human interference or intrusion. Besides the dwindling of biodiversity that this entails, human beings face a ...
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... human treatment of nature for its effects on the nonhuman as well as the human—it is likely to have more of an effect than statements by, say, a comparable number of college professors. To take but one example, consider the by-now well ...
... human treatment of nature for its effects on the nonhuman as well as the human—it is likely to have more of an effect than statements by, say, a comparable number of college professors. To take but one example, consider the by-now well ...
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... human purposes, sanctified by the word of My teaching, only then are you a mentsh and have the right over them which I have given you as a human. However, if you destroy, if you ruin, at that moment you are not a human but an animal and ...
... human purposes, sanctified by the word of My teaching, only then are you a mentsh and have the right over them which I have given you as a human. However, if you destroy, if you ruin, at that moment you are not a human but an animal and ...
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... human species over others and calls the human to rule over other living creatures, but does not give license to exploit the earth resources, since the earth does not belong to the humans but to God. The act of divine creation ends with ...
... human species over others and calls the human to rule over other living creatures, but does not give license to exploit the earth resources, since the earth does not belong to the humans but to God. The act of divine creation ends with ...
Contents
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RELIGION AND ECOLOGY CONFLICTS AND CONNECTIONS | 311 |
RELIGIOUS ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISM | 465 |
Bibliography | 613 |
Index | 633 |
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