Muslim Environmentalisms - Religious and Social Foundations

Sommario

Acknowledgments
1. History of Religions, Islam, and Environmental Humanities
2. Islam and the Environment: Pluralism and Development
3. A Qur’anic Environment: Relating Creatures and Resources
4. Roots and Branches of Islamic Environmental Justice, Law, and Ethics
5. Islamic Humanities: Apprehending Symbol, Expression, and Natural Science
6. Muslim Environmentalism as Religious Practice: Accounts of the Unseen
7. From This World to the Next
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Info autore

Anna M. Gade is a Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor in the Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the author of Perfection Makes Practice: Learning, Emotion, and the Recited Qur’an in Indonesia (2004) and The Qur’an: An Introduction (2010).

Riassunto

Anna M. Gade explores the religious and cultural foundations of Islamic environmentalisms. She blends textual and ethnographic study to offer a comprehensive and interdisciplinary account of the legal, ethical, social, and political principles underlying Muslim commitments to the earth.

Testo aggiuntivo

Recommended.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Anna M. Gade, Professor Anna M. Gade, Gade Anna M.
• Editore: Columbia University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.08.2019
• EAN: 9780231191043
• ISBN: 978-0-231-19104-3
• Pagine: 336
• Categorie: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Biologia > Ecologia; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Religione / teologia > Altre religioni; Islam, Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, RELIGION / Eastern, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, RELIGION / Islam / General, RELIGION / Religion & Science, The environment, nature; concervation; religion; Islam