Connecting Ecologies - Integrating Responses to the Global Challenge

Connecting Ecologies focuses on the environmental aspects of Pope Francis' encyclical Laudato Si' and the challenge to care for our common home. It considers how best to devise and implement the new societal models needed to tackle the ecological problems facing the world today. The book addresses the need for and complexity of an integral ecology, one that looks not only at physical and biological processes but also allows for the contributions of theology, philosophy, spirituality, and psychology, including the implications for the human and social sciences. The contributions document four categories of resonances, resources, requirements, and responses evoked by a reading of Laudato Si' and include consideration of other faith traditions. They reflect on how care for our common home motivates people in different places, cultures, and professions to cooperate for myriad goods in common. The volume is particularly relevant for scholars working in religious studies and theology with an interest in ecology, the environment, and the Anthropocene.

List of contents

1. Laudato Si': Resonances, Resources, Requirements, and Responses  2. Connecting Ecologies: Catholic Social Teaching and Agroecology  3. Connecting Ecologies: A Jewish View  4. Islamic Approaches to Integral Ecology  5. Hinduism and Nature  6. Integral Ecology, the Resource Curse, and Global Inequity  7. Dependent Arising and Buddhist Integral Ecology  8. Vespers: Contemplative Ecology and the Common Life  9. Sacred Groves or Profitable Commodities? Exploring Dispositions Towards Our Environment in Interreligious Dialogue  10. Women, Justice, and Integral Ecology  11. A Holistic Framework to Connect People's Movements with Our 'Common Home'  12. Water Jurisprudence, Property Rights and Catholic Thought  13. Recovering the Good: The Challenge of Integral Ecology to Social and Economic Sciences

Product details

• Authors: Patrick Flood Riordan
• Assisted by: Gavin Flood (Editor), Flood Gavin (Editor), Patrick Riordan (Editor), Riordan Patrick (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.06.2024
• EAN: 9780367251901
• ISBN: 978-0-367-25190-1
• No. of pages: 242
• Series: Routledge Studies in Religion and Environment
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Miscellaneous; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; RELIGION / Christianity / Catholic, RELIGION / Religion & Science, The environment, Science / Environmental Science, Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church, Religion and science, Religion & science