Ecospirit: Religions and Philosophies for the EarthLaurel Kearns, Catherine Keller We hope—even as we doubt—that the environmental crisis can be controlled. Public awareness of our species’ self-destructiveness as material beings in a material world is growing—but so is the destructiveness. The practical interventions needed for saving and restoring the earth will require a collective shift of such magnitude as to take on a spiritual and religious intensity. |
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... environment? . . . Not my issue.” Ecological crisis gets relegated to the vulnerable subdisciplines of “environmental studies,” at risk in every budget cut or change in leadership.' An odd coincidence: just as the science about climate ...
... environmental, and spiritual practices suitable for academic and religious institutions. In other words, this collective of authors was called together partly in response to a problem with theory itself. Over the crucial decades of ...
... environment” onto lists of the oppressed has always strained the rhetoric of resistance. It is not just that, for instance, ecology could be read as a pretext for privileged white hikers to enjoy escapes from the cities of suffering ...
... Environmental Ethic as Grounds for Hope ANNA L. PETERSON INTRODUCTION Environmental issues consistently rank near the top ofpeople's concerns. Surveys indicate that as many as four out of five Americans consider themselves to be ...
... environmental issues. (Especially since the November 2004 elections in the United States, a number of progressives have called for a “reframing” of environmental issues as matters of “morality” and “values,” although the success of ...
Contents
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THEORY AND THEOLOGY | 215 |
SPIRIT CREATION ATONEMENT ESCHATON | 289 |
DESECRATION SACRALITY PLACE | 413 |
ENACTMENTS POETICS LITURGICS | 493 |
Notes | 543 |
Contributors | 637 |
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Ecospirit: Religions and Philosophies for the Earth Laurel Kearns,Catherine Keller No preview available - 2007 |