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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... things,'' or ''all our relations,'' humanity's surroundings were both a gift and a problem. Because they were the source of our sustenance, a source for which we clearly were not responsible, they were a gift. Because we had to think ...
... things,'' or ''all our relations,'' humanity's surroundings were both a gift and a problem. Because they were the source of our sustenance, a source for which we clearly were not responsible, they were a gift. Because we had to think ...
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... things. There is much truth in this objection. But in the end it amounts to little more than saying that most people ... thing a democratic society needs to help solve its problems is the participation of religion in political life. The ...
... things. There is much truth in this objection. But in the end it amounts to little more than saying that most people ... thing a democratic society needs to help solve its problems is the participation of religion in political life. The ...
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... things, a spiritual problem, affecting both the passion and the intimacy of religious life. It does so first by raising in a particularly compelling form the problem of evil. If one believes in a transcendent God we can ask—as the ...
... things, a spiritual problem, affecting both the passion and the intimacy of religious life. It does so first by raising in a particularly compelling form the problem of evil. If one believes in a transcendent God we can ask—as the ...
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... things around you for wise 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 ...
... things around you for wise 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 ...
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Contents
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RELIGION AND ECOLOGY CONFLICTS AND CONNECTIONS | 311 |
RELIGIOUS ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISM | 465 |
Bibliography | 613 |
Index | 633 |
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