Religion and Nature Conservation

Global Case Studies
Herausgeber: Borde, Radhika; Awoyemi, Stephen M; Ormsby, Alison A

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Produktbeschreibung

This book presents a broad array of global case studies exploring the interaction between religion and the conservation of nature, from the viewpoints of the religious practitioners themselves.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Studies in Conservation and the Environment
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 638g
• ISBN-13: 9781032159003
• ISBN-10: 1032159006
• Artikelnr.: 64359102

Autorenporträt

Radhika Borde (PhD) is a Lecturer at the School of Geography, University of Leeds, UK. She has published on sacred natural sites and sustainability and is a member of international professional associations working on these issues. She also supports local communities in India with conservation and sustainability projects. Alison A. Ormsby teaches Environmental Studies at the University of North Carolina Asheville, USA. She is a human ecologist with 30 years of experience working with people and protected areas, environmental education, and sacred natural sites. She has conducted research on sacred forests in Sierra Leone, Ghana, and India. Stephen M. Awoyemi is an Independent Researcher and past President of the Religion and Conservation Biology Working Group, Society for Conservation Biology. He holds a PhD from the Central European University (CEU), Austria. Andrew G. Gosler is a Professor of Ethno-ornithology in the Department of Zoology and School of Anthropology at the University of Oxford, UK. He is the author/editor of multiple books, including Ethno-Ornithology: Birds, Indigenous Peoples, Culture and Society (Routledge, 2011).

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Overview 1. Introduction Part 2: Examples of Faith-Based
Conservation from around the World 2. Caring for the Land, Caring for the
Dharma: The Environmental History of Buddhism at Pemayangtse Monastery,
Sikkim, as a Resource for Contemporary Conservation Initiatives 3. Of
Guardian deities and the wheel of life: How Buddhism shapes the
conservation discourse in the Indian Trans-Himalayas 4. The Borgou and Its
Spirits: Nature and the Traditional Faith Practice of the Baat¿nu People of
West Africa 5. Reinterpreting beliefs and transforming ritual traditions
around the Ganesh Festival in Pune, India 6. The conservation of Maleku
people's sacred natural sites in Costa Rica Part 3: Examining Themes in
Faith-Based Conservation 7. Legitimating and Respecting Sacred Groves -
Important for Human Rights and Important for conservation 8. Spiritual
Values and Ecosystem Services of Sacred Groves in Karnataka, India 9.
Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church Forests and Pollination Services across
an Agricultural Landscape 10. Cultivating faith? Exploring the role of
faith-based relationships in a Christian conservation agriculture programme
in the Dakatcha Woodland, Kenya 11. Shinto shrine forests and happiness in
Japan 12. Spiritual leaders build common ground: Enacting worldviews
through legal pluralism in the face of neoliberalism Part 4: Broader
Perspectives, Applications, and Challenges related to Faith-Based
Conservation 13. International Human Rights Law Approaches in Support of
Faith-Based Conservation Movements 14. Praying in Brazilian Protected
Areas: From Conflicts to Potentials for Alliances between Nature Managers
and Society 15. Faith in the West? Engaging Christian faith groups in
conservation in 'secular western societies' 16. Hima, as protected area -
opportunities and challenges in the 21st century 17. Birds as bridges
between religions and people 18. Green Sabbaths: Putting the Anthropocene
Era to Rest (Once a Week) 19. Religion and ecology walk hand in hand to
conserve Greater Adjutants in Bihar, India Part 5: Last Glance 20.
Additional Snapshots of Faith-Based Conservation 20a. A Twist in Central
Asian Snow Leopard Conservation - Restoring Ancient Ceremony in support of
Modern Conservation Methods 20b. Biocultural importance of sacred groves in
Kurdistan, Iran 20c: Faith-based environmental action by Protestant
churches in Singapore 20d: Guardians of the Heart of the World: Indigenous
Cosmovision and Conservation of Colombia's Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta
20e: Tu Be'Shvat - The Jewish festival of trees 20f: Case Study of Forest
of Grace in Mongolia 20g: Jainism and Nature Conservation 20h: Faith and
science directing A Rocha's marine conservation work in Kenya 20i: Faith in
Conservation in Papua New Guinea 20j. Vultures, Grief, and Interspecies
Rituals 21. Epilogue