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Zusatztext This is a dynamic collection of serious thinkers, a rich resource that helps us attend to the greatest moral challenge of our time. Informationen zum Autor Celia Deane-Drummond is Director of the Laudato Si' Research Institute and Senior Research Fellow in Theology, Campion Hall at University of Oxford, UK. Rebecca Artinian-Kaiser is Center Manager, Center for Theology, Science and Human Flourishing at University of Notre Dame, USA.Offers a unique set of multidisciplinary perspectives on the moral, scientific, cultural, religious, and political questions posed by the challenge of environmental responsibility in an age of climate change, rapid biodiversity loss, and environmental injustice. Zusammenfassung The threat of ecological collapse is increasingly becoming a reality for the world’s populations, both human and nonhuman; addressing this global challenge requires enormous cultural creativity and demands a diversity of perspectives, especially from the humanities. Theology and Ecology Across the Disciplines draws from a variety of academic disciplines and positions in order to explore the role and nature of environmental responsibility, especially where such themes intersect with religious or theological viewpoints.Covering disciplines such as history, philosophy, literature, politics, peace studies, economics, women’s studies, and the ecological sciences as well as systematic and moral theology, the contributors emphasize how these positions have begun to develop distinct perspectives on urgent ecological issues, as well as pointing toward specific practices at the local and international level. This volume provides a multidisciplinary point of departure for urgent conversations on environmental responsibility that resist simplistic solutions. Rather, the contributors highlight the complex nature of modern ecology, and suggest creative ways forward in the situation of an apparently intractable global problem. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollection.com. Open access was funded by Knowledge Unlatched. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of FiguresList of ContributorsAcknowledgments Introduction , Celia Deane-Drummond and Rebecca Artinian-Kaiser (University of Notre Dame, USA ) Prologue: ‘ Understanding the Science of Climate Change ’, Philip J. Sakimoto (University of Notre Dame, USA ) Part I. Culture 1. Ecotheology before Ecology and Environmentalism: Reclaiming the Missing Heritage of Natural Theology - Christopher Hamlin ( University of Notre Dame, USA ) 2. Thoreau’s Woodchopper, Wordsworth’s Leech-gatherer, and the Representation of “Humble and Rustic Life” - Alda Balthrop-Lewis ( Australian Catholic University, Australia ) 3. How Ecology Can Save the Life of Theology: A Philosophical Contribution to the Engagement of Ecology and Theology - David Kirchhoffer ( Australian Catholic University, Australia ) 4. Key Issues in Ecological Theology: Incarnation, Evolution, Communion - Denis Edwards ( Australian Catholic University, Australia) Part II. Social Science 5. Creation and Creativity - Mark Hayes ( Durham University, UK ) 6. “No Compromise in Defense of Mother Earth”: The Religion and Politics of Radical Environmentalism - Kyle William Beam ( Independent Scholar, USA ) 7. Strategic Peacebuilding and an “Integral Ecology” - Michael Yankoski ( University of Notre Dame, USA ) 8. Against the “Unity” of Babel: Liberation Theology and the Language of Sustainable Development - Daniel P. Castillo ( Loyola University, USA ) Part III. Critique 9. The Environment, the Common Good, and Women’s Participation - Lisa Sowle Cahill ( Boston College, USA ) 10. The Planetary Boundaries Framework and Food Production: A Radical Re...
