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Religion and Environmentalism

Author : Lora Stone
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book Religion and Environmentalism written by Lora Stone and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-07-01 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A foundational resource for readers investigating religiously motivated environmentalism, this book provides both a global overview of the subject and a detailed discussion of key figures, concepts, organizations, events, and documents. Beginning in the late 1960s, a growing number of activists, scholars, and scientists asserted that traditional religions had been major contributors to the environmental crisis. In response, theologians, religious organizations, and religiously motivated activists became increasingly involved in environmental issues. At the same time, emerging nature-based belief systems emphasized values and lifestyles based in environmentalism. More recently, religiously motivated environmentalism has become a powerful force in shaping environmental policy and human action globally and has joined with secular environmentalism to address related issues. This book explores the background and current state of religious environmentalism. The book begins with an overview essay examining the history and context of religious environmentalism and its significance today. A chronology then profiles the most important events related to religious environmentalism. A section of more than 50 alphabetically arranged reference entries follows, with each entry providing objective information about people, places, events, movements, works, and other topics. The entries include cross-references and suggestions for further reading, and the book closes with a selected, annotated bibliography of major works.

Earth and Faith

Author : Libby Bassett
Publisher : UNEP/Earthprint
ISBN 13 : 9280719157
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book Earth and Faith written by Libby Bassett and published by UNEP/Earthprint. This book was released on 2000 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Environment & Religion

Author : Dr.P.V.S.Vara Prasad
Publisher : Blue Rose Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Environment & Religion written by Dr.P.V.S.Vara Prasad and published by Blue Rose Publishers. This book was released on 2023-08-23 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pollution-free environment can be achieved through social and ethical values. beings. These values are associated with social life, customs, religion, and psycho-spiritual aspects of the people.The religious literature and speeches of great saints and sages will create strong sentiments, feelings in human beings, which bring forth a healthy environment. This is possible through wide spread of the writings and messages of all religious feelings towards preservation and conservation of the environment. Thus, this book has brought forward the relationship between "Environment and Religion" to save and protect the Environment and make a clean country as well as a clean world.

Beliefs, Values and Traditions

Author : Ann Lovelace
Publisher : Heinemann
ISBN 13 : 9780435302610
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Beliefs, Values and Traditions written by Ann Lovelace and published by Heinemann. This book was released on 2002 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organ transplants - Genetic engineering - Abortion - Morality - Marriage - Divorce - Suffering - Role of women - Discrimination - Allah - Elderly - Synagogues.

Our Future in Nature:

Author : Edmund Barrow
Publisher : Balboa Press
ISBN 13 : 198222665X
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (822 download)

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Download or read book Our Future in Nature: written by Edmund Barrow and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2019-05-21 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who has not felt a sense of awe, silence, stillness, and presence in an ancient woodland or forest or in front of a sacred tree? Humankind has held trees and woodlands in awe and reverence since the dawn of time. We depend on nature for the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the services nature provides. This book is about the importance of sacred trees and groves in our stress-filled and increasingly urban world. (Note that over 50 percent of the world is urban.) Sacred trees and sacred groves transcend race, color, and creed. They are found all over our fragile planet. Where there is a tree, there is a sacred tree. This book will appeal to religious and spiritual traditions as well as to conservation and environmental movements. It will offer its reader means to take better care of our only home—planet Earth. Often undervalued, unrecognized, or disrespected, sacred trees and groves are conserved against mind-boggling pressures. For example, there is a sacred fig tree between two shops in one of the main streets in Hanoi, Vietnam. There is also a one-hectare sacred grove in the center of Kumasi, a city of 2.5 million people in Ghana; the over 150,000 sacred groves in India; and the sacred hill forests of every village in Yunnan, South China. Sacred trees and groves often conserve unique biodiversity, which can help create or recreate connectivity in the landscape. As such, sacred trees and groves may be relic survivors of bygone ages and are an important resource for restoring degraded natural landscapes. This book offers ways for those involved with religion and spirituality and for those working with conservation and land use to jointly engage in repairing the damage we have done to Earth.

Key Beliefs, Ultimate Questions and Life Issues

Author : David Worden
Publisher : Heinemann
ISBN 13 : 9780435306991
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book Key Beliefs, Ultimate Questions and Life Issues written by David Worden and published by Heinemann. This book was released on 2003 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is written to match GCSE Religious Studies AQA B, option 2 and can be used as part of a full course or short course. It contains summaries and practise exam questions at the end of each section to help prepare for exams.

Christian Theology

Author : Alister E. McGrath
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444397702
Total Pages : 539 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)

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Download or read book Christian Theology written by Alister E. McGrath and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-01-14 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alister McGrath’s Christian Theology: An Introduction is one of the most internationally-acclaimed and popular Christian theology textbooks in use today. This 5th edition has been completely revised, and now features new and extended material, numerous additional illustrations, and companion resources, ensuring it retains its reputation as the ideal introduction to Christian theology. Fully updated 5th edition of the bestselling textbook, incorporating expanded material, numerous student features and new illustrations Features new sections on Copernicanism and Darwinism Includes extended discussions of Augustine’s doctrine of creation, Trinitarian theologies of religion, and the relation of Christianity to other faiths May be used as a stand-alone volume, or alongside the Christian Theology Reader, 4th edition for a complete overview of the subject Retains the chapter structure of the 4th edition, ensuring comparability with earlier editions and courses based on these Accompanied by a revised instructor’s website featuring expanded resources including study questions and answers; visit www.wiley.com/go/mcgrath for more details and to register for access

Holistic Mission

Author : Brian Woolnough
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1610970195
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Holistic Mission written by Brian Woolnough and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Holistic mission, or integral mission, implies God is concerned with the whole person, the whole community: body, mind and spirit. Many Christians concentrate only on one aspect. This book reaffirms that to be true to the Bible, to follow the example of Jesus, the church must address the whole person in all their needs. It considers the meaning of the holistic gospel, how it has developed, and implications for the individual Christian, for the local church, for denominations and church groups, for missionary societies, for Christian NGOs, and for theological training institutions. It takes a global, eclectic approach, with 19 writers, church leaders, academics and practitioners, all of whom have much experience in, and commitment to, holistic mission. It addresses critically and honestly one of the most exciting, challenging, and important issues facing the church today. To be part of God's plan for God's people, the church must take holistic mission to the world.

Biodivinity and Biodiversity

Author : Emma Tomalin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317174283
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Biodivinity and Biodiversity written by Emma Tomalin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is concerned with the argument that religious traditions are inherently environmentally friendly. Yet in a developing country such as India, the majority of people cannot afford to put the 'Earth first' regardless of the extent to which this idea can be supported by their religious traditions. Does this mean that the linking of religion and environmental concerns is a strategy more suited to contexts where people have a level of material security that enables them to think and act like environmentalists? This question is approached through a series of case studies from Britain and India. The book concludes that there is a tension between the 'romantic' ecological discourse common among many western activists and scholars, and a more pragmatic approach, which is often found in India. The adoption of environmental causes by the Hindu Right in India makes it difficult to distinguish genuine concern for the environment from the broader politics surrounding the idea of a Hindu rashtra (nation). This raises a further level of analysis, which has not been provided in other studies.

Religions and Development

Author : Emma Tomalin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136827471
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)

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Download or read book Religions and Development written by Emma Tomalin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-03 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religion has been excluded from development studies for decades. Religious traditions have contributed greatly towards development work, yet major international players have tended to ignore its role. Recent years have shown a noticeable shift in development policy, practice and research to recognize religion as a relevant factor. This text provides a comprehensive insight into different approaches towards the understanding the relationships between religions and development studies, policy and practice. It guides readers through current debates, presenting, explaining and critically evaluating a broad range of literature and locating it within a theoretical context. The text explores the role of religion within development, from positive contributions, such as the important role that many ‘faith-based organizations’ play in education or health care, to more complicated and contested notions of impact, such as religiously inspired violence or gender inequality. The book begins with three background chapters, outlining the relevance of religions for development studies, policy and practice, and introducing the reader to the study of ‘development’ and of ‘religions’. Following these, the focus then shifts to examine a number of thematic areas, including religion, gender and development, and the implications of the ‘rise of religion’ for mainstream development studies, policy and practice in the 21st century. Each chapter contains a range of features to assist undergraduate learning, including learning objectives for each chapter, discussion of key concepts, summaries, discussion questions, further reading and websites. The book also contains over sixty boxed case studies to provide further definition, explanation, and examples of the interactions between religions and development globally. This innovative text presents religions as something that can both obstruct and aid development, encouraging readers to engage critically with the multiple ways that religion impacts on both the conceptualization of development as well the resulting project interventions. This will be of interest to undergraduate, postgraduate students and scholars interested in religious studies, development studies, and the broader study of societies and cultures.

Learning, Environment and Sustainable Development

Author : William Scott
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100020796X
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Learning, Environment and Sustainable Development written by William Scott and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-11 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an introduction to the long history of human learning, the environment and sustainable development – about our struggles with the natural world: first for survival, then for dominance, currently for self-preservation, and in future perhaps, even for long-term, mutually beneficial co-existence. It charts the long arc of human–environment relationships through the specific lens of human learning, putting on record many of the people, ideas and events that have contributed, often unwittingly, to the global movement for sustainable development. Human learning has always had a focus on the environment. It’s something we’ve been engaged in ever since we began interacting with our surroundings and thinking about the impacts, outcomes and consequences of our actions and interactions. This unique story told by the authors is episodic rather than a connected, linear account; it probes, questions and re-examines familiar issues from novel perspectives, and looks ahead. The book is of particular interest to those studying (and teaching) courses with a focus on socio-economic and environmental sustainability, and non-governmental organisations whose work brings them face-to-face with the general public and social enterprises.

Explorations In Global Ethics

Author : Sumner B Twiss
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429980256
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Explorations In Global Ethics written by Sumner B Twiss and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-08 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by the 1993 Parliament of the Worlds Religions, this volume for the first time brings the scholarly discipline of comparative religious ethics into constructive collaboration with the community of interreligious dialogue. The contributors draw from both communities of discourse in addressing questions of method and theory and global moral issuessuch as human rights, distributive justice, politics of war, international business, the environment, and genocidein a cross-cultural context. }Inspired by the 1993 Parliament of the Worlds Religions, this volume for the first time brings the scholarly discipline of comparative religious ethics into constructive collaboration with the community of interreligious dialogue. Its design is premised on two important insights. First, interreligious dialogue offers to comparative religious ethics a new, more persuasive rationale, agenda of issues, and practical orientation. Second, comparative religious ethics offers to interreligious dialogue an arsenal of critical tools and methods which will enhance the sophistication of its practical work. In this way, both theory (a dominant concern and strength of comparative religious ethics) and praxis (a dominant concern and strength of interreligious moral dialogue) are joined together in mutual effort, each contributing to the benefit of the other.The volumes contributors share this vision of collaboration, drawing explicitly from both communities of discourse in a manner that crosses disciplinary and professional boundaries to deal creatively and constructively with important methodological and global moral issue. Although theory and practice cannot easily be separated in such a collaborative project, for the purpose of clarity, the volume is divided into two main parts. The first specifically engages questions of method, theory, and the social role of the public intellectual; the second, on substantive moral themes and issues, many of which were raised at the 1993 Parliament. Taken together, the volumes essays articulate and illustrate new ways of approaching contemporary moral concerns cross-culturally yet with a rigor appropriate to our complex and pluralistic world.

Ecclesial Reform and Deform Movements in the South African Context

Author : Ernst M Conradie
Publisher : AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
ISBN 13 : 1920689761
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Ecclesial Reform and Deform Movements in the South African Context written by Ernst M Conradie and published by AFRICAN SUN MeDIA. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ecclesial Reform and Deform Movements in the South African Contextÿis the fourth volume in a series on the interface between ecumenical theology and social transformation in the (South) African context. Ecclesial movements are amongst the most significant drivers of social transformation. The essays in this volume identify, describe and assess a variety of ecclesial movements. Such movements are often highly contested so that the same movement may be described by some as a reform movement and by others as a deform movement.ÿ

Contemporary American Speeches

Author : Richard L. Johannesen
Publisher : Kendall Hunt
ISBN 13 : 9780787258054
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary American Speeches written by Richard L. Johannesen and published by Kendall Hunt. This book was released on 2000 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains a collection of transcripts of contemporary American speeches, providing brief biographical information on the author of each speech, as well as critical and historical context. Includes CD-ROM with forty-two significant speeches.

Rediscovery and Revival in Islamic Environmental Law

Author : Samira Idllalène
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108805442
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Rediscovery and Revival in Islamic Environmental Law written by Samira Idllalène and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-01 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The common ground between religions could be fruitfully promoted in order to call for an effective protection of the climate system. Positioned at a junction of different worlds, this book is a multidisciplinary work on Islamic law, common law and environmental law. Looking at the past, present and future, the author suggests a paradigm shift starting from the common ground in order to propose a better future for environmental law in Muslim countries. As the first book to compare Shari'a and common law in field of environmental protection, it suggests a new path in comparative environmental law by recognizing the contributions of both history and spirituality.

One World Many Issues

Author : Lyn Clarke
Publisher : Nelson Thornes
ISBN 13 : 9780748762576
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book One World Many Issues written by Lyn Clarke and published by Nelson Thornes. This book was released on 2001 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grade level: 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, e, i, s.

Encyclopedia of Biodiversity

Author :
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 0123847206
Total Pages : 5485 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (238 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Biodiversity written by and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2013-02-05 with total page 5485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 7-volume Encyclopedia of Biodiversity, Second Edition maintains the reputation of the highly regarded original, presenting the most current information available in this globally crucial area of research and study. It brings together the dimensions of biodiversity and examines both the services it provides and the measures to protect it. Major themes of the work include the evolution of biodiversity, systems for classifying and defining biodiversity, ecological patterns and theories of biodiversity, and an assessment of contemporary patterns and trends in biodiversity. The science of biodiversity has become the science of our future. It is an interdisciplinary field spanning areas of both physical and life sciences. Our awareness of the loss of biodiversity has brought a long overdue appreciation of the magnitude of this loss and a determination to develop the tools to protect our future. Second edition includes over 100 new articles and 226 updated articles covering this multidisciplinary field— from evolution to habits to economics, in 7 volumes The editors of this edition are all well respected, instantly recognizable academics operating at the top of their respective fields in biodiversity research; readers can be assured that they are reading material that has been meticulously checked and reviewed by experts Approximately 1,800 figures and 350 tables complement the text, and more than 3,000 glossary entries explain key terms