Protecting Nature, Saving Creation [electronic resource] : Ecological Conflicts, Religious Passions, and Political Quandaries /
Gagliardi, Pasquale.author.
Valentini, Philipp.author.
Reijnen, A.editor.
Can religions help us tackle the ecological crisis we are now facing? Can we redefine our relationship with the Earth, giving spiritual depth to ecological issues? This book attempts to answer these questions by exploring the relationship between ecology and theology.
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Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures and Table; Acknowledgments; List of Contributors; Introduction; Ariadne and the Minotaur: A Thread Winding through the Labyrinth (A Guide for Readers); 1 Taking in the Real: Human Beings and the Earth (Opening Speech); 2 Ecological Conflicts and Religious Passions: A Patchwork of Beliefs; 3 "Nature" or "Creation"? Difficult Choices of the Church Fathers; 4 "Dame Nature Cares Nothing for Us"; 5 Creation and Salvation; 6 Harmonious Cosmos and the World of the Fall: Natural and Counternatural in the Orthodox Christian Tradition
7 Seeing the World, Hearing the Word: Cosmos and Creation in Protestant Theology8 Roman Catholic Contributions to Address the Current Ecological Crisis; 9 The "Cosmism" of Islam as a Possible Response to the Current Ecological Crisis; 10 Economies and Ecologies of the Sacred in Zimbabwe; 11 Economic Development, Anthropomorphism, and the Principle of Reasonable Sufficiency; 12 Economic and Ecological Challenges: Is There a Role for Religion?; 13 Modernization as Liberation Theology; Part II Afterthoughts; A Preliminary Notice; 14 Afterthought: Of Maker's Knowledge
15 Thoughts after the Dialogue . . .16 Mobilizing Religions for the Ecological Crisis: An Urgent but Difficult Task; 17 Evolve: Modernization as the Road to Salvation; 18 My Manifesto for the Dialogue; 19 Roman Catholic Commitment to Promoting Sustainability; 20 The Balance of Nature. What Can Be Learned from the History of the Earth and Life; 21 What Is My Personal Outcome from This Dialogue?; 22 Part of Creation Called to Be Gods: Further Thoughts on the Place of Humans; 23 Defining the Commonplace as the Common Place: Cosmopolitanism and the Cross
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Can religions help us tackle the ecological crisis we are now facing? Can we redefine our relationship with the Earth, giving spiritual depth to ecological issues? This book attempts to answer these questions by exploring the relationship between ecology and theology.
Religion and sociology.
Anthropology.
Ethnology.
Geology.
Religion.
Sociology of Religion.
Anthropology.
Cultural Anthropology.
Geology.
Religious Studies, general.
Social Anthropology.