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Ecology and religion / John Grim and Mary Evelyn Tucker.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Foundations of contemporary environmental studies | Foundations of contemporary environmental studiesPublication details: Washington, DC : Island Press, 2014.Description: x, 265 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9781597267076 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 1597267074 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9781597267083 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 1597267082 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 201/.77 23
LOC classification:
  • BL65.E36 GRI 2014
Contents:
Introduction. Our journey into religion and ecology -- Problems and promise of religions : limiting and liberating -- The nature of religious ecology : orienting, grounding, nurturing, transforming -- Religious ecology and views of nature in the West -- Ecology, conservation, and ethics -- Emergence of the field of religion and ecology -- Christianity as orienting to the cosmos -- Confucianism as grounding in community -- Indigenous traditions and the nurturing powers of nature -- Hinduism and the transforming affect of devotion -- Building on interreligious dialogue : toward a global ethics -- Epilogue. Challenges ahead : creating ecological cultures.
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Books in General collection Books in General collection Mzuni ODeL- Karonga Satellite Centre Library BL 65 GRI 2014 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 029434 Available mZulm-029434

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-258) and index.

Introduction. Our journey into religion and ecology -- Problems and promise of religions : limiting and liberating -- The nature of religious ecology : orienting, grounding, nurturing, transforming -- Religious ecology and views of nature in the West -- Ecology, conservation, and ethics -- Emergence of the field of religion and ecology -- Christianity as orienting to the cosmos -- Confucianism as grounding in community -- Indigenous traditions and the nurturing powers of nature -- Hinduism and the transforming affect of devotion -- Building on interreligious dialogue : toward a global ethics -- Epilogue. Challenges ahead : creating ecological cultures.

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