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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... kabbalah from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1978) and a BA in Religious Studies from SUNY in Stony Brook (1974). Prior to joining the faculty of Arizona State University, she taught at Columbia University, Emory University, and ...
... kabbalah from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1978) and a BA in Religious Studies from SUNY in Stony Brook (1974). Prior to joining the faculty of Arizona State University, she taught at Columbia University, Emory University, and ...
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... kabbalah. Each of these intellectual movements had a distinctive theology of nature that reflected its conception of God. For the rationalist philosophers, nature was to be studied in order to fathom how its regularity and orderliness ...
... kabbalah. Each of these intellectual movements had a distinctive theology of nature that reflected its conception of God. For the rationalist philosophers, nature was to be studied in order to fathom how its regularity and orderliness ...
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... kabbalah, although the picture of the universe adopted by kabbalah was largely Aristotelian, albeit with a strong dose of Neoplatonic emanationism. In kabbalah the focus was neither on the stability of nature nor on its extraordinary ...
... kabbalah, although the picture of the universe adopted by kabbalah was largely Aristotelian, albeit with a strong dose of Neoplatonic emanationism. In kabbalah the focus was neither on the stability of nature nor on its extraordinary ...
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... kabbalah manifest a hands-on approach to nature: it is an activist attitude that aligned kabbalah with magic, alchemy, and astrology. Such wisdom was considered effective only because the kabbalists claimed to possess the knowledge of ...
... kabbalah manifest a hands-on approach to nature: it is an activist attitude that aligned kabbalah with magic, alchemy, and astrology. Such wisdom was considered effective only because the kabbalists claimed to possess the knowledge of ...
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... kabbalah and Hasidism. As Jews were integrated into modern society, many Jews no longer regarded the written and oral Torahs as the source of truth about the physical universe; cosmology now belongs to science rather than to religion ...
... kabbalah and Hasidism. As Jews were integrated into modern society, many Jews no longer regarded the written and oral Torahs as the source of truth about the physical universe; cosmology now belongs to science rather than to religion ...
Contents
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RELIGION AND ECOLOGY CONFLICTS AND CONNECTIONS | 311 |
RELIGIOUS ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISM | 465 |
Bibliography | 613 |
Index | 633 |
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