This Sacred Earth: Religion, Nature, EnvironmentRoger S. Gottlieb This is the first comprehensive survey of the critical connections between religion, nature and the environment. It includes writings from sacred texts and a broad spectrum of new eco-theological selections. Historical and contemporary selections from key authors and a multicultural range of sources make This Sacred Earth an invaluable teaching resource and a unique introduction to the theory and practice of religious environmentalism. |
Contents
PART I | 15 |
Imagination and Desire | 21 |
John Muir | 27 |
Stephanie Kaza | 41 |
Fanetorens Ray Fadden | 50 |
Christianity as Ecologically Harmful | 104 |
J Donald Hughes from American Indian Ecology | 131 |
Chatsumarn Kabilisingh Early Buddhist Views on Nature | 147 |
Ecotheology in an Age of Environmental Crisis | 403 |
Thomas Berry Into the Future | 410 |
Brian Walsh Marianne B Karsh Trees Forestry and the Responsiveness | 423 |
Warwick Fox Transpersonal Ecology and the Varieties | 436 |
Religious Practice for a Sacred Earth | 445 |
Ellen Bernstein and Dan Fink Blessings and Praise | 451 |
The Sun Dance | 470 |
The Earth is the Lords | 480 |
John S Mbiti African Views of the Universe | 174 |
Ecotheology in an Age of Environmental Crisis | 181 |
Roderick Nash The Greening of Religion | 194 |
American Baptist Churches USA Creation and the Covenant of Caring | 238 |
Liberating Life A Report to the World Council of Churches | 251 |
John F Haught Christianity and Ecology | 270 |
The Cosmic Christ | 286 |
Arthur Waskow What is EcoKosher? | 297 |
Ken Jones Getting Out of Our Own Light | 303 |
Theodore Walker Jr AfricanAmerican Resources | 309 |
Ecotheology in an Age of Environmental Crisis | 317 |
Anne Primavesi Ecofeminism and Canon | 334 |
The Politics | 346 |
Vandana Shiva from Staying Alive | 382 |
Terry Tempest Williams The Clan of OneBreasted Women | 390 |
Carol Adams Destabilizing Patriarchal Consumption | 397 |
John Seed Invocation | 499 |
Marina Lachecki The Blessing of the Water | 507 |
Charlene Spretnak Beyond Humanism Modernity and Patriarchy | 532 |
Max Oelschlaeger from Caring for Creation | 537 |
Sharma On Sustainability | 558 |
Catherine Ingram Interview with Cesar Chavez | 586 |
Citizenship in Earth | 604 |
David Spangler Imagination Gaia | 611 |
Dieter T Hessel Now that Animals | 620 |
The First National | 634 |
Joint Appeal by Religion | 640 |
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SOME ORGANIZATIONS TO CONTACT | 661 |
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS | 669 |
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