In the face of the current environmental crisis—which clearly has moral and spiritual dimensions—members of all the world’s faiths have come to recognize the critical importance of religion’s relationship to ecology. The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Religion and Ecology offers a comprehensive overview of the history and the latest developments in religious engagement with environmental issues throughout the world. Newly commissioned essays from noted scholars of diverse faiths and scientific traditions present the most cutting-edge thinking on religion’s relationship to the environment. Initial readings explore the ways traditional concepts of nature in Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, and other religious traditions have been shaped by the environmental crisis. Readings then address the changing nature of theology and religious thought in response to the challenges of protecting the environment. Various conceptual issues and themes that transcend individual traditions—climate change, bio-ethics, social justice, ecofeminism, and more—are then analyzed before a final section examines some of the immediate challenges we face in caring for the Earth while looking to the future of religious environmentalism. Timely and thought-provoking, Companion to Religion and Ecology offers illuminating insights into the role of religion in the ongoing struggle to secure the future well-being of our natural world.With a foreword by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I,  and an Afterword by John Cobb
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In the face of the current environmental crisis which clearly has moral and spiritual dimensions members of all the world s faiths have come to recognize the critical importance of religion s relationship to ecology.
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List of Contributors ix Foreword xvii Bartholomew I, Ecumenical Patriarch Preface xix Acknowledgments xxxi I. Religions and Ecological Consciousness 1 Ecology Perspectives from Diverse Religious and Spiritual Traditions 1 God is Absolute Reality and All Creation His Tajallı̄ (Theophany) 3Seyyed Hossein Nasr 2 Swaraj: From Chipko to Navdanya 12Vandana Shiva 3 Eco‐Kabbalah: Holism and Mysticism in Earth‐Centered Judaism 20David Mevorach Seidenberg 4 Laudato Sí in the Earth Commons—Integral Ecology and Socioecological Ethics 37John Hart 5 神の大経綸: The Great Divine Plan: Kotama Okada’s Vision for Spiritual Civilization in the Twenty‐First Century 54Kōō Okada 6 In the Time of the Sacred Places 71Winona LaDuke 7 Eco‐Theology in the African Diaspora 85Dianne D. Glave 8 Buddhist Interdependence and the Elemental Life 90Christopher Key Chapple 9 Theodao: Integrating Ecological Consciousness in Daoism, Confucianism, and Christian Theology 104Heup Young Kim II. Care for the Earth and Life 115 Traditions’ Teachings in Socioecological Contexts 10 Science, Ecology, and Christian Theology 117John F. Haught 11 Exploring Environmental Ethics in Islam: Insights from the Qur’an and the Practice of Prophet Muhammad 130Fazlun M. Khalid 12 Science and Religion: Conflict or Concert? 146Francisco J. Ayala 13 The Serpent in Eden and in Africa: Religions and Ecology 163Kapya J. Kaoma 14 Jewish Environmental Ethics: The Imperative of Responsibility 179Hava Tirosh‐Samuelson 15 Ecowomanism and Ecological Reparations 195Melanie L. Harris 16 From Climate Debt to Climate Justice: God’s Love Embodied in Garden Earth 203Cynthia Moe‐Lobeda 17 The Vision of St. Maximus the Confessor: That Creation May All Be One 220Elizabeth Theokritoff III. Ecological Commitment 237 Contextualization of Traditions in Diverse Contexts, Cultures, and Circumstances 18 From Social Justice to Creation Justice in the Anthropocene 239Larry L. Rasmussen 19 Christianity, Ecofeminism, and Transformation 256Heather Eaton 20 The Face of God in the World: Insights from the Orthodox Christian Tradition 273John Chryssavgis 21 Climate Change and Christian Ethics 286Michael S. Northcott 22 Islamic Environmental Teachings: Compatible with Ecofeminism? 301Nawal H. Ammar and Allison Gray 23 The Divine Environment (al‐Muhit) and the Body of God: Seyyed Hossein Nasr and Sallie McFague Resacralize Nature 315Ian S. Mevorach 24 Chondogyo and a Sacramental Commons: Korean Indigenous Religion and Christianity on Common Ground 331Yongbum Park 25 The Religious Politics of Scientific Doubt: Evangelical Christians and Environmentalism in the United States 348Myrna Perez Sheldon and Naomi Oreskes 26 The Covenant of Reciprocity 368Robin Wall Kimmerer IV. Visions for the Present and Future Earth 383 The Earth Transformed: Altered Consciousness and Conduct on Common Ground 27 Prayer as if Earth Really Matters 385Arthur Waskow 28 The Evolutionary and Ecological Perspectives of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and Thomas Berry 394Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim 29 Earth as Community Garden: The Bounty, Healing, and Justice of Holy Permaculture 410Tallessyn Zawn Grenfell‐Lee 30 Theo‐Forming Earth Community: Meaning‐Full Creations 427Whitney A. Bauman 31 Religious Environmentalism and Environmental Activism 439Roger S. Gottlieb 32 Global Heating, Pope Francis, and the Promise of Laudato Sí 457Bill McKibben 33 Respect for Mother Earth: Original Instructions and Indigenous Traditional Knowledge 460Tom B. K. Goldtooth 34 Common Commons: Social and Sacred Space 471John Hart 35 A New Partzuf for a New Paradigm: Living Earth—An Icon for Our Age 488Zalman Shachter Shalomi and in Conversation with John Hart Afterword 505 John B. Cobb, Jr. Index 510
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"Hart features a chorus of voices, ancient and modern, famous and little known. All worldviews are faith views; he finds insightful accounts of religion and ecology around the globe. We welcome his inclusive, if diverse, human communities integrated with the wellbeing of Earth and all biota (his socioecological praxis ethics). Highly recommended, especially for libraries."—Holmes Rolston III, Colorado State University Foreword by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartolomew I and Afterword by John Cobb In the face of the current environmental crisis—which clearly has moral and spiritual dimensions—members of all the world's faiths have come to recognize the critical importance of religion's relationship to ecology. The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Religion and Ecology offers a comprehensive overview of the history and the latest developments in religious engagement with environmental issues throughout the world. Newly commissioned essays from noted scholars of diverse faiths and scientific traditions present the most cutting-edge thinking on religion's relationship to the environment. Initial readings explore the ways traditional concepts of nature in Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, and other religious traditions have been shaped by the environmental crisis. Readings then address the changing nature of theology and religious thought in response to the challenges of protecting the environment. Various conceptual issues and themes that transcend individual traditions—climate change, bio-ethics, social justice, ecofeminism, and more—are then analyzed before a final section examines some of the immediate challenges we face in caring for the Earth while looking to the future of religious environmentalism. Timely and thought-provoking, The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Religion and Ecology offers illuminating insights into the role of religion in the ongoing struggle to secure the future well-being of our natural world.
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9781118465561
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2017-04-21
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Wiley-Blackwell
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1157 gr
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246 mm
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163 mm
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36 mm
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P, 06
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Engelsk
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Biographical note

John Hart is Professor of Christian Ethics, Boston University. His books include Cosmic Commons: Spirit, Science, and Space (2013), Sacramental Commons: Christian Ecological Ethics (2006), and The Spirit of the Earth (1984). He has lectured globally on socioecological ethics and religion-ecology in eight countries on five continents.