God and Gaia - Science, Religion and Ethics on a Living Planet

God and Gaia explores the overlap between traditional religious cosmologies and the scientific Gaia theory of James Lovelock.This book will be of considerable interest to students and scholars of the environmental humanities, history, cultural and religious studies.

List of contents

1. From Deep Time to Ancestral Time 2. In Borneo 3. Diversity and Development 4. Reverse Engineering Life 5. Biosecurity, Covid-19 and Human-Earth Healing 6. The Earth as Gaia 7. Gaia and Religions 8. Gaian Ethics

About the author

Michael S. Northcott is Professor Emeritus of Ethics at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland; and Guest Professor at the Indonesian Consortium of Religious Studies, Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, and the Evangelische Theologische Faculteit, Leuven, Belgium.

Summary

God and Gaia explores the overlap between traditional religious cosmologies and the scientific Gaia theory of James Lovelock.This book will be of considerable interest to students and scholars of the environmental humanities, history, cultural and religious studies.

Product details

• Authors: Michael S Northcott
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.12.2022
• EAN: 9780367627751
• ISBN: 978-0-367-62775-1
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Routledge Environmental Humanities
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Sociology, NATURE / Ecology, Anthropology, Society & culture: general, RELIGION / Religion & Science, Philosophy of Science, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Philosophy of religion, Society and culture: general, Human Geography