David L Gosling

Religion and Ecology in India and Southeast Asia

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Produktbeschreibung

What part can Hindu and Buddhist traditions play in resolving the ecological problems facing India and South East Asia? David Gosling's exciting study, based on extensive fieldwork, is of global significance: the creation of more sustainable relationships between people and the natural world is one of the most urgent social and environmental problems of the new millennium. David Gosling looks at the religions historically and from a contemporary perspective.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 162mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 463g
• ISBN-13: 9780415240307
• ISBN-10: 0415240301
• Artikelnr.: 22098048

Autorenporträt

David L. Gosling trained as a nuclear physicist and more recently was the first Spalding Fellow in Religions at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, where he is currently based. He was Director of Church and Society at the World Council of Churches at the University of Geneva and has published widely on environmental issues in south Asia.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Ecology and Hindu traditions 3. Ecology and
modern India 4. Struggles for the forests 5. Ecology and Buddhism 6.
Thailand: a case study 7. India since Independence 8. Signs of hope 9.
Expanding our horizons