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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... protection, and every living thing is affected by human-made climate change, importation of exotic species, habitat loss, and pollution. While environmental devastation is not in and of itself a new thing, the scope of the current ...
... protection, and every living thing is affected by human-made climate change, importation of exotic species, habitat loss, and pollution. While environmental devastation is not in and of itself a new thing, the scope of the current ...
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... protect all of life.26 At its best the religious spirit has a similarly inclusive goal. We are all, says the Bible, made in the image of God. We all, says Buddhism, suffer and deserve release from our pain. Each community, says the Qur ...
... protect all of life.26 At its best the religious spirit has a similarly inclusive goal. We are all, says the Bible, made in the image of God. We all, says Buddhism, suffer and deserve release from our pain. Each community, says the Qur ...
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... Protecting the Earth (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003), chap. 2. 21. ''Guardians of the Future'' (interview with Joanna Macy), on the In Context website: http://www.context.org/ICLIB/IC28/Macy.htm. 22. For example, Michael ...
... Protecting the Earth (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003), chap. 2. 21. ''Guardians of the Future'' (interview with Joanna Macy), on the In Context website: http://www.context.org/ICLIB/IC28/Macy.htm. 22. For example, Michael ...
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... protection of their regular dwelling, the temporary booth compelled the Israelites to experience the power of God in nature more directly and become even more grateful to God's power of deliverance. In addition to dwelling in a sukkah ...
... protection of their regular dwelling, the temporary booth compelled the Israelites to experience the power of God in nature more directly and become even more grateful to God's power of deliverance. In addition to dwelling in a sukkah ...
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... protected people'' who could remain infidels within the Islamic state) and the socalled Bourgeois Revolution of the tenth century led Jews to forsake agriculture and to enter domestic and international commerce, trade, finance, arts ...
... protected people'' who could remain infidels within the Islamic state) and the socalled Bourgeois Revolution of the tenth century led Jews to forsake agriculture and to enter domestic and international commerce, trade, finance, arts ...
Contents
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RELIGION AND ECOLOGY CONFLICTS AND CONNECTIONS | 311 |
RELIGIOUS ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISM | 465 |
Bibliography | 613 |
Index | 633 |
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