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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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 Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 Tajall¿¿ (Theophany) 3 Seyyed Hossein Nasr 2 Swaraj: From Chipko to Navdanya 12 Vandana Shiva 3 EcöKabbalah: Holism and Mysticism in Earth¿Centered Judaism 20 David Mevorach Seidenberg 4 Laudato Sí in the Earth Commons-Integral Ecology and Socioecological Ethics 37 John Hart 5 ¿¿¿¿¿: The Great Divine Plan: Kotama Okada's Vision for Spiritual Civilization in the Twenty¿First Century 54 Köö Okada 6 In the Time of the Sacred Places 71 Winona LaDuke 7 EcöTheology in the African Diaspora 85 Dianne D. Glave 8 Buddhist Interdependence and the Elemental Life 90 Christopher Key Chapple 9 Theodao: Integrating Ecological Consciousness in Daoism, Confucianism, and Christian Theology 104 Heup Young Kim II. Care for the Earth and Life 115 Traditions' Teachings in Socioecological Contexts 10 Science, Ecology, and Christian Theology 117 John F. Haught 11 Exploring Environmental Ethics in Islam: Insights from the Qur'an and the Practice of Prophet Muhammad 130 Fazlun M. Khalid 12 Science and Religion: Conflict or Concert? 146 Francisco J. Ayala 13 The Serpent in Eden and in Africa: Religions and Ecology 163 Kapya J. Kaoma 14 Jewish Environmental Ethics: The Imperative of Responsibility 179 Hava Tirosh¿Samuelson 15 Ecowomanism and ...
