Religions and environments
Subtitle: a reader in religion, nature, and ecology
By: Richard Bohannon
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9781780938028; 9781780937625
Subjects: Ecology; Nature; Natur; Religious aspects; Umweltschutz; 11.09 systematic religious studies: other; Religion; Ökologie
Description: Recent decades have witnessed a surge of literature and activism from religious leaders and thinkers on the natural environment. Religions and Environments: A Reader in Religion, Nature and Ecology brings together some of the most thought-provoking examples of such writings from the nineteenth century up to today, spanning a variety of methodological approaches and religious traditions, viewpoints and locations. Religions and Environments: A Reader in Religion, Nature and Ecology depicts some of the diverse ways that religious narratives and practices have helped people connect to the physical world around them. To do so, it is divided into three parts: the wilderness, the garden, and the city. Traditions represented include nature spiritualities, Asian traditions, Judaism, Islam, Christianity, and indigenous traditions.Reflecting the most current scholarship in the study of religion and nature, as well as providing important historical essays, it draws on a range of perspectives and methodologies, including historical, theological, philosophical and literary methods. Each part contains a critical introduction by the editor which provides an overview of issues and guides students to key ideas. Section introductions also provide an overview of the specific issues which arise in the readings in each section. Each part also includes suggestions for further reading and resources on the topics, making this the ideal resource for courses on religion and the environment, religion and ecology, and religion and nature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / -- Richard Bohannon -- part 1. Wilderness: nature as wild and remote. Introduction -- Encountering the wild.; title: The first morning  -- Edward Abbey (1968); title: Walking  -- Henry David Thoreau (1862) -- Selections from; title: My first summer in the Sierra  -- John Muir (1911); title: The gospel of nature  -- John Burroughs (1912); title: Being prey  -- Val Plumwood (1996); title: The council of all beings  -- Pat Fleming and Joanna Macy (1988) -- Wilderness and religious traditions.; title: The wild and the sacred  -- Thomas Berry (1999); title: Wilderness as a Sabbath for the land  -- Scott Russell Sanders (2009); title: American Indians and the wilderness  -- Vine Deloria, Jr. (2001); title: Ecologically noble or ignoble?  -- Leslie Sponsel (2012); title: The home culture of the Dharma: the story of a Thai forest tradition  -- Thanissaro Bhikkhu (1998); title: Good, wild, sacred  -- Gary Snyder (1990) -- part 2. Garden: cultivated and transformed landscapes. Introduction -- Land management and garden spiritualities.; title: The land ethic  -- Aldo Leopold (1949); title: The idea of a garden  -- Michael Pollan (1991); title: A tale of two gardens  -- Rebecca Kneale Gould (2005); title: Islam and marine conservation  -- Cara Wolinsky (2009); title: Paradise on Earth: historical gardens of the arid Middle East  -- Safei El-Deen Hamed (1994); title: Salvation in the garden: Daoism and ecology  -- Jeffrey F. Meyer (2001); title: Caring and working: an agrarian perspective  -- Norman Wirzba (1999); title: The tractor is my pulpit  -- Sarah McFarland Taylor (2007) -- Religious responses to deforestation.; title: The women of Chipko  -- Vandana Shiva (1988); title: Sacred groves, sacred no more  -- Wangari Maathai (2010); title: A tree-planting eucharist  -- Marthinus L. Daneel (2001); title: The tree ordination ceremony  -- Sue Darlington (1998) -- part 3. City: natural and human environments. Introduction -- Nature and the city.; title: Where we live: urban ecotheology  -- Sallie McFague (2008); title: Staying grounded in a high-rise building  -- Karen McCarthy Brown (1999); title: City practice and bush practice  -- Kuya Minogue (1997); title: Partnership  -- Carolyn Merchant (2004) -- Green cities?; title: Divining New Orleans: invoking wisdom for the redemption of place  -- Anne Daniell (2007); title: Eino and Elisa: contextual Christianity discusses urban sustainability  -- Seppo Kjellberg (2004); title: The Christian, the future, and Paolo Soleri  -- John B. Cobb, Jr. (1973); title: Green mosques  -- Ibrahim Abdul-Matin (2010) -- Environmental and eco-justice.; title: Religion and environmental justice  -- Laurel Kearns (2012); title: Tzedek and the city: justice, land use and urban life  -- Jeremy Benstein (2006); title: Liberation theology and ecology: rivals or partners  -- Leonardo Boff (1997); title: Whose earth is it, anyway -- James Cone (2000).