Hinduism and ecology : the intersection of earth, sky, and water /
Chapple, Christopher.
Tucker, Mary Evelyn.
Cambridge, MA : Distributed by Harvard University Press for the Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard Divinity School,
c2000.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [549]-567) and index.
[1] The cultural underpinnings : traditional Hindu concepts of nature. Dharmic ecology / O.P. Dwivedi -- The five great elements (pan̄camahābhūta) : an ecological perspective / K.L. Seshagiri Rao -- Nature romanticism and sacrifice in Ṛgvedic interpretation / Laurie L. Patton -- State responsibility for environmental management : perspectives from Hindu texts on polity / Mary McGee -- Literary foundations for an ecological aesthetic : dharma, aruyveda, the arts, and Abhijñānaśākuntalam / T.S. Rukmani -- Reading the Bhagavadgītā from an ecological perspective / Lance E. Nelson -- Can Hindu beliefs and values help India meet its ecological crisis? / Anil Agarwal.  [2] Gandhian philosophy and the development of an indigenous Indian environmental ethic. Too deep for deep ecology : Gandhi and the ecological vision of life / Vinay Lal -- The inner logic of Gandhian ecology / Larry D. Shinn.
[3] Forests in classic texts and traditions. The natural history of the Rāmāyana / David Lee -- City, forest, and cosmos : ecological perspectives from the Sanskrit epics / Philip Lutgendorf -- "Sacred grove" and ecology : ritual and science / Frédérique Apffel-Marglin and Pramod Parajuli -- "If you cut a branch you cut my finger" : court, forest, and environmental ethics in Rajasthan / Ann Grodkins Gold.  [4] Flowing sacrality and risking profanity : the Yamunā, Gaṅgā, and Narmada Rivers. River of love in an age of pollution / David L. Haberman -- Separate domains : Hinduism, politics, and environmental pollution / Kelly D. Alley -- The Narmada : circumambulation of a sacred landscape / Chris Deegan -- Sacred rivers, sacred dams : competing visions of social justice and sustainable development along the Narmada / William F. Fisher -- Green and red, not saffron : gender and the politics of resistance in the Narmada valley / Pratyusha Basu and Jael Silliman.  [5] Can Hindu text and ritual practice help develop environmental conscience? Rituals of embedded ecologies : drawing kōlams, marrying trees, and generating auspiciousness / Vijaya Nagarajan -- The ritual capsule of Durga puja : an ecological perspective / Madhu Khanna -- Ethical and religious dimensions of Chipko resistance / George A. James.
Ecology
Nature
Natural history
Hinduism