Jainism and ecology
Subtitle: nonviolence in the web of life
By: edited by Christopher Key Chapple.
Contributors: Chapple, Christopher.
Series: Religions of the world and ecology
Publisher: Distributed by Harvard University Press for the Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard Divinity School
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
Subjects: Human ecology -- Religious aspects -- Jainism; Jainism -- Doctrines; Environmental ethics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-231) and index.
Table of contents: title: The Jain worldview and ecology / Nathmal Tatia; title: Jain ecological perspectives / John M. Kroller; title: The nature of nature: Jain perspectives on the natural world / Kristi L. Wiley; title: Green Jainism? Notes and queries toward a possible Jain environmental ethic / John E. Cort; title: The limits of a Jain environmental ethic / Paul Dundas; title: The living earth of Jainism and the new story: rediscovering and reclaiming a functional cosmology / Christopher Key Chapple; title: Ecology, economics, and development in Jainism / Padmanabh S. Jaini; title: The environmental and ecological teachings of Tīrthankara Mahāvr̄a / Sadhvi Shilapi; title: Ecology and spirituality in the Jain tradition / Bhagchandra Jain 'Bhaskar'; title: Jain ecology / Satish Kumar; title: From liberation to ecology: ethical discourses among orthodox and diaspora Jains / Anne Vallely.