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Religion and Ecological Crisis

Author : Todd LeVasseur
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317242769
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Religion and Ecological Crisis written by Todd LeVasseur and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1967, Lynn White, Jr.’s seminal article The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis was published, essentially establishing the academic study of religion and nature. White argues that religions—particularly Western Christianity—are a major cause of worldwide ecological crises. He then asserts that if we are to halt, let alone revert, anthropogenic damages to the environment, we need to radically transform religious cosmologies. White’s hugely influential thesis has been cited thousands of times in a variety of disciplines, including but not limited to religious studies, environmental ethics, history, ecological science, philosophy, psychology, and anthropology. In practical terms, the ecological crisis to which White was responding has only worsened in the decades since the article was published. This collection of original essays by leading scholars in a variety of interdisciplinary settings, including religion and nature, environmental ethics, animal studies, ecofeminism, restoration ecology, and ecotheology, considers the impact of White’s arguments, offering constructive criticism as well as reflections on the ongoing, ever-changing scholarly debate about the way religion and culture contribute to both environmental crises and to their possible solutions. Religion and Ecological Crisis addresses a wide range of topics related to White’s thesis, including its significance for environmental ethics and philosophy, the response from conservative Christians and evangelicals, its importance for Asian religious traditions, ecofeminist interpretations of the article, and which perspectives might have, ultimately, been left out of his analysis. This book is a timely reflection on the legacy and continuing challenge of White’s influential article.

Religion and Environmental Crisis

Author : Eugene C. Hargrove
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Religion and Environmental Crisis written by Eugene C. Hargrove and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Inhabiting Eden

Author : Patricia K. Tull
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 0664233333
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (642 download)

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Download or read book Inhabiting Eden written by Patricia K. Tull and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this thoughtful study, respected Old Testament scholar Patricia K. Tull explores the Scriptures for guidance on today's ecological crisis. Tull looks to the Bible for what it can tell us about our relationships, not just to the earth itself, but also to plant and animal life, to each other, to descendants who will inherit the planet from us, and to our Creator. She offers candid discussions on many current ecological problems that humans contribute to, such as the overuse of energy resources like gas and electricity, consumerism, food production systems--including land use and factory farming--and toxic waste. Each chapter concludes with discussion questions and a practical exercise, making it ideal for both group and individual study. This important book provides a biblical basis for thinking about our world differently and prompts us to consider changing our own actions. Visit inhabitingeden.org for links to additional resources and information.

The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Ecology

Author : Roger S. Gottlieb
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0195178726
Total Pages : 685 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Ecology written by Roger S. Gottlieb and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2006-11-09 with total page 685 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 I will explore

Morality and the Environmental Crisis

Author : Roger S. Gottlieb
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107140730
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Morality and the Environmental Crisis written by Roger S. Gottlieb and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-21 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The environmental crisis besieges morality with unanswered questions and ethical dilemmas, requiring fresh examination of nature's value, animal rights, activism, and despair.

Ecology and Religion

Author : John Grim
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 9781597267076
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book Ecology and Religion written by John Grim and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2014-01-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Psalms in the Bible to the sacred rivers in Hinduism, the natural world has been integral to the world’s religions. John Grim and Mary Evelyn Tucker contend that today’s growing environmental challenges make the relationship ever more vital. This primer explores the history of religious traditions and the environment, illustrating how religious teachings and practices both promoted and at times subverted sustainability. Subsequent chapters examine the emergence of religious ecology, as views of nature changed in religious traditions and the ecological sciences. Yet the authors argue that religion and ecology are not the province of institutions or disciplines alone. They describe four fundamental aspects of religious life: orienting, grounding, nurturing, and transforming. Readers then see how these phenomena are experienced in a Native American religion, Orthodox Christianity, Confucianism, and Hinduism. Ultimately, Grim and Tucker argue that the engagement of religious communities is necessary if humanity is to sustain itself and the planet. Students of environmental ethics, theology and ecology, world religions, and environmental studies will receive a solid grounding in the burgeoning field of religious ecology.

Traditional Islamic Environmentalism

Author : Tarik M. Quadir
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 0761861440
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book Traditional Islamic Environmentalism written by Tarik M. Quadir and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2013-09-16 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work examines the relevance of traditional Islamic thought and practices for a lasting solution to the current environmental crisis. Quadir describes how Seyyed Hossein Nasr challenges Muslims to reclaim their traditional intellectual and Sufi heritage as powerful means toward a most thoughtful approach to the crisis. In so doing, Nasr urges us to take a critical look at the consequences of the worldviews generated by modern science and technology and offers bold solutions for a more caring relationship between man and nature. The book argues that only a revival of the traditional worldview which perceives all entities of nature as signs of God can effectively respond to the crisis our planet faces.

Caring for Creation

Author : Max Oelschlaeger
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300066456
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (664 download)

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Download or read book Caring for Creation written by Max Oelschlaeger and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that religion - blamed for contributing to the ecological crisis - provides an ethical context that will help solve the problem. The approach suggests that the environmentally positive aspects in various Western creation stories demonstrate religion

Varieties of Religion and Ecology

Author : Zainal A. Bagir
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 364391394X
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (439 download)

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Download or read book Varieties of Religion and Ecology written by Zainal A. Bagir and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection presents critical environmental problems with respect to their intersection with culture and religion in Indonesia, such as water resource management, conservation, and political ecology. Scholars from the region ground investigation in ethnographic field studies that represent diverse communities, including Indigenous perspectives from across the archipelago. The discussion is forward-looking and sophisticated, offering a meaningful and critical engagement with the field of religion and ecology. Anna M. Gade, Professor of Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison, United States.

Religion and the Order of Nature

Author : Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195356160
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Religion and the Order of Nature written by Seyyed Hossein Nasr and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1996-09-26 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The current ecological crisis is a matter of urgent global concern, with solutions being sought on many fronts. In this book, Seyyed Hossein Nasr argues that the devastation of our world has been exacerbated, if not actually caused, by the reductionist view of nature that has been advanced by modern secular science. What is needed, he believes, is the recovery of the truth to which the great, enduring religions all attest; namely that nature is sacred. Nasr traces the historical process through which Western civilization moved away from the idea of nature as sacred and embraced a world view which sees humans as alienated from nature and nature itself as a machine to be dominated and manipulated by humans. His goal is to negate the totalitarian claims of modern science and to re-open the way to the religious view of the order of nature, developed over centuries in the cosmologies and sacred sciences of the great traditions. Each tradition, Nasr shows, has a wealth of knowledge and experience concerning the order of nature. The resuscitation of this knowledge, he argues, would allow religions all over the globe to enrich each other and cooperate to heal the wounds inflicted upon the Earth.

Pollution and the Death of Man

Author : Francis A. Schaeffer
Publisher : Crossway
ISBN 13 : 143351950X
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (335 download)

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Download or read book Pollution and the Death of Man written by Francis A. Schaeffer and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2011-03-02 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the creation of the world, God gave mankind the responsibility to exercise dominion over the earth. Man was to use the earth and its abundance of resources to satisfy his physical needs, but he was also to care for the earth and its creatures as a wise and godly steward. Reading about endangered species or another oil spill will make it abundantly clear that the human race has failed miserably in its God-given mandate. How did we get to this point? Where should we go from here? This classic by Francis Schaeffer, now repackaged, looks at contemporary ecological crises through the lens of theology and Scripture. Renowned for his work in applied philosophy and theology, Schaeffer answers serious philosophical questions about creation and ecology. He concludes that we must return to a profoundly and radically biblical understanding of God’s relationship to the earth, and of our divine mandate to exercise godly dominion over it. Repackaged and republished, Pollution and the Death of Man carries an important and relevant message for our day. With concluding chapter by Udo Middelmann.

Managing the Environmental Crisis in Ghana

Author : Kwasi Nyamekye
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 144387132X
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Managing the Environmental Crisis in Ghana written by Kwasi Nyamekye and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-11-19 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Due to the strong inroads that Western scientism and Western Christianity have made in Africa as a result of colonialism, post-colonial African governments have tended to rely solely on Western scientific conservation epistemologies and models to the neglect of those of the Indigenous African peoples in addressing their environmental problems. However, there is enough evidence that neither modern (scientific) nor indigenous epistemologies and modes of addressing current ecological problems ar...

Religion and Ecological Crisis

Author : Md. Abu Sayem
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000648567
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Religion and Ecological Crisis written by Md. Abu Sayem and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-09-02 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religion and Ecological Crisis delves into the complex relationship between religions and ecology, presenting Christian and Islamic perspectives on ecological issues through the work of John Boswell Cobb and Seyyed Hossein Nasr. It examines how faith traditions of the world see and respond to our current unprecedented climate change issues. This is the first comparative study of Cobb and Nasr’s eco-religious understanding, and explores how their prescriptions can contribute alternatively to techno-scientific initiatives in environmental sustainability. Taking Cobb’s "economism" and Nasr’s "scientism" as the key concepts for surveying the roots of the ecological crisis, the book offers interdisciplinary and interreligious insights into the debates about ecological equilibrium, motivational awareness in human mind and about entanglements between religion and the environment. This will be an insightful resource for policy makers, faith leaders and for academics working in Environmental Studies and Religious Studies.

Ecologies of Grace

Author : Willis Jenkins
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199989885
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book Ecologies of Grace written by Willis Jenkins and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-12 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christianity struggles to show how living on earth matters for living with God. While people of faith increasingly seek practical ways to respond to the environmental crisis, theology has had difficulty contextualizing the crisis and interpreting the responses. In Ecologies of Grace, Willis Jenkins presents a field-shaping introduction to Christian environmental ethics that offers resources for renewing theology. Observing how religious environmental practices often draw on concepts of grace, Jenkins maps the way Christian environmental strategies draw from traditions of salvation as they engage the problems of environmental ethics. He then uses this new map to explore afresh the ecological dimensions of Christian theology. Jenkins first shows how Christian ethics uniquely frames environmental issues, and then how those approaches both challenge and reinhabit theological traditions. He identifies three major strategies for making environmental problems intelligible to Christian moral experience. Each one draws on a distinct pattern of grace as it adapts a secular approach to environmental ethics. The strategies of ecojustice, stewardship, and ecological spirituality make environments matter for Christian experience by drawing on patterns of sanctification, redemption, and deification. He then confronts the problems of each of these strategies through critical reappraisals of Thomas Aquinas, Karl Barth, and Sergei Bulgakov. Each represents a soteriological tradition which Jenkins explores as an ecology of grace, letting environmental questions guide investigation into how nature becomes significant for Christian experience. By being particularly sensitive to the ways in which environmental problems are made intelligible to Christian moral experience, Jenkins guides his readers toward a fuller understanding of Christianity and ecology. He not only makes sense of the variety of Christian environmental ethics, but by showing how environmental issues come to the heart of Christian experience, prepares fertile ground for theological renewal.

Ecospirit

Author : Laurel Kearns
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823227472
Total Pages : 1011 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)

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Download or read book Ecospirit written by Laurel Kearns and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2009-08-25 with total page 1011 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We hope—even as we doubt—that the environmental crisis can be controlled. Public awareness of our species’ self-destructiveness as material beings in a material world is growing—but so is the destructiveness. The practical interventions needed for saving and restoring the earth will require a collective shift of such magnitude as to take on a spiritual and religious intensity. This transformation has in part already begun. Traditions of ecological theology and ecologically aware religious practice have been preparing the way for decades. Yet these traditions still remain marginal to society, academy, and church. With a fresh, transdisciplinary approach, Ecospirit probes the possibility of a green shift radical enough to permeate the ancient roots of our sensibility and the social sources of our practice. From new language for imagining the earth as a living ground to current constructions of nature in theology, science, and philosophy; from environmentalism’s questioning of postmodern thought to a garden of green doctrines, rituals, and liturgies for contemporary religion, these original essays explore and expand our sense of how to proceed in the face of an ecological crisis that demands new thinking and acting. In the midst of planetary crisis, they activate imagination, humor, ritual, and hope.

Living Earth Community: Multiple Ways of Being and Knowing

Author : Sam Mickey
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1783748060
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (837 download)

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Download or read book Living Earth Community: Multiple Ways of Being and Knowing written by Sam Mickey and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2020-05-18 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living Earth Community: Multiple Ways of Being and Knowing is a celebration of the diversity of ways in which humans can relate to the world around them, and an invitation to its readers to partake in planetary coexistence. Innovative, informative, and highly accessible, this interdisciplinary anthology of essays brings together scholars, writers and educators across the sciences and humanities, in a collaborative effort to illuminate the different ways of being in the world and the different kinds of knowledge they entail – from the ecological knowledge of Indigenous communities, to the scientific knowledge of a biologist and the embodied knowledge communicated through storytelling. This anthology examines the interplay between Nature and Culture in the setting of our current age of ecological crisis, stressing the importance of addressing these ecological crises occurring around the planet through multiple perspectives. These perspectives are exemplified through diverse case studies – from the political and ethical implications of thinking with forests, to the capacity of storytelling to motivate action, to the worldview of the Indigenous Okanagan community in British Columbia. Living Earth Community: Multiple Ways of Being and Knowing synthesizes insights from across a range of academic fields, and highlights the potential for synergy between disciplinary approaches and inquiries. This anthology is essential reading not only for researchers and students, but for anyone interested in the ways in which humans interact with the community of life on Earth, especially during this current period of environmental emergency.

Christianity and Ecology

Author : Dieter T. Hessel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 776 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Christianity and Ecology written by Dieter T. Hessel and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What can Christianity as a tradition contribute to the struggle to secure the future well-being of the earth community? This collaborative volume explores problematic themes that contribute to ecological neglect or abuse and offer constructive insight into and responsive imperatives for ecologically just and socially responsible living.