Parallels and contrasts values from world religions and those proposed by the environmental perspective of deep ecology.
Bringing together thirteen new essays on the important relationship between traditional world spirituality and the contemporary environmental perspective of deep ecology, this landmark book explores parallels and contrasts between religious values and those proposed by deep ecology. In examining how deep ecologists and the various religious traditions can both learn from and critique one another, the following traditions are considered: indigenous cultures, Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Judaism, Catholicism, Islam, Protestantism, Christian ecofeminism, and New Age spirituality.
Table of Content
Acknowledgments
Introduction
David Landis Barnhill and Roger S. Gottlieb
1 Spiritual Deep Ecology and World Religions: A Shared Fate, a Shared Task
Roger S. Gottlieb
2 Indigenous Traditions and Deep Ecology
John A. Grim
3 Hinduism and Deep Ecology
Christopher Key Chapple
4 Relational Holism: Huayan Buddhism and Deep Ecology
David Landis Barnhill
5 Chinese Religion, ‘Daoism, ‘ and Deep Ecology
Jordan Paper
6 Confucianism and Deep Ecology
Mary Evelyn Tucker
7 Faith, God, and Nature: Judaism and Deep Ecology
Eric Katz
8 Catholicism and Deep Ecology
John E. Carroll
9 Islam and Deep Ecology
Nawal Ammar
10 Protestant Theology and Deep Ecology
John B. Cobb Jr.
11 Deep Ecology, Ecofeminism, and the Bible
Rosemary Radford Ruether
12 Ken Wilber’s Critique of Ecological Spirituality
Michael E. Zimmerman
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index
About the author
David Landis Barnhill is Director of Interdisciplinary Studies and Associate Professor of Intercultural and Religious Studies at Guilford College. He is the author of At Home on the Earth: Becoming Native to Our Place: A Multicultural Anthology. Roger S. Gottlieb is Professor of Philosophy at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. His most recent book is A Spirituality of Resistance: Finding a Peaceful Heart and Protecting the Earth.
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