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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... relation to nature? And how must beliefs (and actions) change as we face the environment? These two questions form the heart of the study of religion and ecology. Ecology matters to religion for a number of reasons. First, any ...
... relation to nature? And how must beliefs (and actions) change as we face the environment? These two questions form the heart of the study of religion and ecology. Ecology matters to religion for a number of reasons. First, any ...
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... relation between fossil-fuel use and global warming, that is just what is happening. To change U.S. energy policies, however—or to challenge the use of pesticides which spread throughout the world or acid rain caused by Midwest ...
... relation between fossil-fuel use and global warming, that is just what is happening. To change U.S. energy policies, however—or to challenge the use of pesticides which spread throughout the world or acid rain caused by Midwest ...
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... relations precisely because land was the basis of the personal bond between lord and vassal, which was sealed with a Christian oath. After the First Crusade (1096) Jews increasingly moved into moneylending in a rapidly growing urban ...
... relations precisely because land was the basis of the personal bond between lord and vassal, which was sealed with a Christian oath. After the First Crusade (1096) Jews increasingly moved into moneylending in a rapidly growing urban ...
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... relationship between humanity and the natural world.25 The first creation narrative (Gen. 1:1–2:3) depicts the creation of the material world as an act of ordering unordered chaos (tohu va-bohu). The order involves the separation of ...
... relationship between humanity and the natural world.25 The first creation narrative (Gen. 1:1–2:3) depicts the creation of the material world as an act of ordering unordered chaos (tohu va-bohu). The order involves the separation of ...
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... relationship between revealed morality (prescriptive law) and the laws of nature (descriptive laws), but the rabbinic corpus harbors diverse and even conflicting views. One theme highlights the regularity of nature and its indifference ...
... relationship between revealed morality (prescriptive law) and the laws of nature (descriptive laws), but the rabbinic corpus harbors diverse and even conflicting views. One theme highlights the regularity of nature and its indifference ...
Contents
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RELIGION AND ECOLOGY CONFLICTS AND CONNECTIONS | 311 |
RELIGIOUS ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISM | 465 |
Bibliography | 613 |
Index | 633 |
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