Religion and Environmental Crisis
Author | : Eugene C. Hargrove |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Eugene C. Hargrove |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Md. Abu Sayem |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2022-09-02 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1000648567 |
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.
Author | : Todd LeVasseur |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2016-07-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1317242769 |
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.
Author | : Eugene C. Hargrove |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Max Oelschlaeger |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 1996-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780300066456 |
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
Author | : Roger S. Gottlieb |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 303 |
Release | : 2009-10 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0195396200 |
world-making political agenda that far exceeds interest group politics applied to forests and toxic incinerators. Rather, religious environmentalism offers an all-inclusive vision of what human beings are and how we should treat each other and the rest of life. Gottlieb analyzes the growing synthesis of the movement's religious, social, and political aspects, as well as the challenges it faces in consumerism, fundamentalism, and globalization.
Author | : Roger S. Gottlieb |
Publisher | : OUP USA |
Total Pages | : 685 |
Release | : 2006-11-09 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0195178726 |
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
Author | : Roger S. Gottlieb |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2019-02-21 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1107140730 |
The environmental crisis besieges morality with unanswered questions and ethical dilemmas, requiring fresh examination of nature's value, animal rights, activism, and despair.
Author | : Roger S. Gottlieb |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : |
In the last two decades a new form of religiously motivated social action and a virtually new field of academic study each based in recognition of the connections between religion and humanity 's treatment of the environment have developed. Interactions between religion and environmental concern have been manifest in the explosive growth of ecotheological writings, institutional commitment by organized religions, and environmental activism explicitly oriented to religious ideals. Clergy throughout the world in virtually every denomination have received word from leaders of their religion that the environment no less than sexuality, poverty, or war and peace is now a basic and compelling religious matter. 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. Theologians from every religious tradition along with dozens of non-denominational spiritual writers have confronted world religions past attitudes towards nature. In the realm of institutional commitment, public statements and actions by organized religions have grown dramatically. In the context of political action, throughout the U.S. and the world religiously oriented groups take part in environmentally oriented political action: from lobbying and consciousness raising to activist demonstrations and civil disobedience. This collection serves as a comprehensive introduction, overview, and in-depth account of these exciting new developments. The four volumes cover virtually every aspect of the field from theological change and institutional commitment to innovation in liturgy, from new ecumenical connections among different religions and between religion, science and environmental movements, from religious participation in environmental politics to an account of the global social and political contexts in which religious environmentalism has unfolded.
Author | : Kwasi Nyamekye |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2014-11-19 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 144387132X |
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...