Roger S. Gottlieb

This Sacred Earth

Religion, Nature, Environment

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Produktbeschreibung

Updated with nearly forty new selections to reflect the tremendous growth and transformation of scholarly, theological, and activist religious environmentalism, the second edition of This Sacred Earth is an unparalleled resource for the study of religion's complex relationship to the environment.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Revised
• Seitenzahl: 784
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. November 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 46mm
• Gewicht: 1644g
• ISBN-13: 9780415943598
• ISBN-10: 0415943590
• Artikelnr.: 21325566

Autorenporträt

Roger S. Gottlieb is Professor of Philosophy at Worcester Polytechnic Institiute and is widely recognized for his work in environmentalism. He has a regular column in Tikkun, and has published in popular venues such as the Sunday Boston Globe and Orion Afield. He has written and edited books on Marxism, Religion and Environmentalism.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction: Religion in an Age of
Environmental Crisis Introduction to the Second Edition: Good News/Bad News
Part I: The Moment of Seeing: Selections from Nature Writers Linking Nature
and Spirit 1.1 From the Halibun: (trans. David Barnhill): Matshuo Basho 1.2
On the Lure of the Country: William Hazlitt 1.3 From Walking: Henry David
Thoreau 1.4 Nature: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1.5 From Thousand-Mile Walk to the
Gulf: John Muir 1.6 From A Sand County Almanac: Aldo Leopold 1.7 Nature:
Luther Standing Bear 1.8 Seeing the Light: Robert Finch 1.9 The Kill Hole:
Linda Hogan Part II: How Have Traditional Religions Viewed Nature? 2.1 The
Creation: Fanetorens (Ray Fadden) 2.2 Death and the Rebirth of the Universe
(Hindu): Joseph L. Henderson and Maude Oaks 2.3 The Parade of Ants (Hindu):
Joseph L. Henderson and Maude Oaks 2.4 The Five Suns (Aztec): Joseph L.
Henderson and Maude Oaks 2.5 Persephone:Joseph L. Henderson and Maude Oaks
2.6 From Forests: the Shadow of Civilization: Robert Pogue Harrison
2.7 From the Tao Te Ching: Lao Tzu 2.8 Selections: Hebrew Bible 2.9
Selections: Qur'an 2.10 Jews, Jewish Texts, and Nature: A Brief History:
Daniel Swartz 2.11 From Legends of the Bible: Louis Ginzberg 2.12 From In
and of the World: Christian Theological Anthropology and Environmental
Ethics: Anna Peterson 2.13 Traditional Native Hawaiian Environmental
Philosophy: Michael Kioni Dudley 2.14 Early Buddhist Views on Nature:
Chatsumarn Kabilisingh 2.15 Illuminating Darkness: The
Monk-Cave-Bat-Ecosystem Complex in Thailand: Leslie E. Sponsel and Poranee
Matadcha-Sponsel 2.16 Satyagraha for Conservation: Awakening the Spirit of
Hinduism: O.P. Dwivedi 2.17 Islamic Environment: Ethics, Law, and Society:
Mawil Y. Izzi Deen (Samarrai) 2.18 Central African Voices on the
Human-Environmental Relationship: Richard B. Peterson 2.19 An Aboriginal
Perspective on the Integrity of Creation: Stan McKay 2.20 Biodiversity and
Tradition in Malaysia: Patrick Segundad 2.21 Lea