Ecology and the Environment - Perspectives From the Humanities

Informationen zum Autor Donald K. Swearer is Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Harvard Divinity School’s Center for the Study of World Religions and Professor of Religion, Emeritus, at Swarthmore College. Lawrence Buell is Powell M. Cabot Research Professor of American Literature at Harvard University. Mary Evelyn Tucker is Senior Lecturer, Yale Divinity School. Klappentext The scientific! political! and economic policy debates about the global environmental crisis have tended to ignore its historical! ethical! religious! and aesthetic dimensions. This book addresses that omission by highlighting these humanistic components that are integral to the fabric of our ecological understanding. Zusammenfassung Seven major scholars discuss the perspectives that the fields of literature, history, religion, philosophy, environmental ethics, and anthropology bring to the natural environment and our place in it. The book represents a continuation of the Center for the Study of World Religions’ highly regarded Religions of the World and Ecology series.

Product details

• Authors: Donald K Swearer, Donald K. Swearer
• Assisted by: Donald K. Swearer (Editor), Swearer Donald K. (Editor), Daniel P. Schrag (Foreword)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.2009
• EAN: 9780945454434
• ISBN: 978-0-945454-43-4
• No. of pages: 138
• Series: Religions of the World and Ecology; Religions of the World and Eco; Religions of the World and Ecology; Religions of the World & Ecology (HUP)
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; The environment, Science / Environmental Science