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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... species, habitat loss, and pollution. While environmental devastation is not in and of itself a new thing, the scope of the current crisis makes for a totally new life situation. Millennia ago overirrigation may have destroyed the ...
... species, habitat loss, and pollution. While environmental devastation is not in and of itself a new thing, the scope of the current crisis makes for a totally new life situation. Millennia ago overirrigation may have destroyed the ...
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... species of megafauna before they developed their nature-honoring spiritual traditions, but humans simply did not have the power to transform climate, initiate mass extinctions, or make sunlight more dangerous. Above all, earlier ...
... species of megafauna before they developed their nature-honoring spiritual traditions, but humans simply did not have the power to transform climate, initiate mass extinctions, or make sunlight more dangerous. Above all, earlier ...
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... species to become extinct and to destroy the biological diversity of God's creation...to degrade the integrity of the Earth by causing changes in its climate, stripping the Earth of its natural forests, or destroying its wetlands... to ...
... species to become extinct and to destroy the biological diversity of God's creation...to degrade the integrity of the Earth by causing changes in its climate, stripping the Earth of its natural forests, or destroying its wetlands... to ...
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... species, and the right to be free from ecological destruction.''25 Most contemporary environmental organizations repeatedly stress that their goal is not just to save wilderness, but to protect all of life.26 At its best the religious ...
... species, and the right to be free from ecological destruction.''25 Most contemporary environmental organizations repeatedly stress that their goal is not just to save wilderness, but to protect all of life.26 At its best the religious ...
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... Species Act or choose between energy efficiency and more oil-drilling (no matter where or with what effects), we are expressing a sense of what is important to us, how we ought to live, and what we regard with reverence. The spiritual ...
... Species Act or choose between energy efficiency and more oil-drilling (no matter where or with what effects), we are expressing a sense of what is important to us, how we ought to live, and what we regard with reverence. The spiritual ...
Contents
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RELIGION AND ECOLOGY CONFLICTS AND CONNECTIONS | 311 |
RELIGIOUS ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISM | 465 |
Bibliography | 613 |
Index | 633 |
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