Integral Ecology for a More Sustainable World

Preface: Evolution of the Concept of Integral Ecology in Papal Teaching

Cardinal Peter K. A. Turkson, Cardinal-Priest of San Liborio,



Introduction:

Dennis O'Hara, Matthew Eaton, Michael Ross



Part I: Laudato Si' in Context



Chapter 1: Laudato Si': Social Analysis and Political Engagement in the Tradition of Catholic Social Thought

Christopher Vogt, St. John's University



Chapter 2: A Compassionate Science: Pope Francis, Climate Change, and the Fate of Creation

Stephen Scharper, University of Toronto



Part II: The Throwaway Culture: Consumption and Economics



Chapter 3: Growth is an Idol in a Throwaway Culture: Ecotheology Against Neutrality

Timothy Harvie, St. Mary's University



Chapter 4: Pope Francis Contra 21st Century Capitalism: The Power of Joined-up Social Ethics

Gerard Mannion, Georgetown University



Chapter 5: Wealthy Hyperagency in the Throwaway Culture: Inequality and Environmental Death

Kate Ward, Marquette University



Chapter 6: The Peril and the Promise of Agriculture in Laudato Si'

Matthew Whelan, Baylor University



Part III: The Gospel of Creation: Theology and Anthropology



Chapter 7: "The 'Brown Thread' in Laudato Si': Grounding Ecological Conversion and Theological Ethics Praxis"

Dawn Nothwehr, Catholic Theological Union



Chapter 8: Ecological Conversion in the Light of Ecofeminist Concerns: A Post-Lonergan Dialogue

Susan Rakoczy, St Joseph's Theological Institute/University of KwaZulu-Natal



Chapter 9: Reframing Ecotheological Anthropology within a More Integral Ecology

Dennis Patrick O'Hara, University of St. Michael's College



Chapter 10: Locating Laudato Si' along a Catholic Trajectory of Concern for Non-Human Animals

Charles Camosy, Fordham University



Part IV: The Technocratic Paradigm: Science and Technology



Chapter 11: From Galileo to Laudato Si': The Uses of Science: How Science Needs Faith

Guy J. Consolmagno, S.J., Vatican Observatory



Chapter 12: Cosmology, Theology, and Laudato Si'

John Haught, Georgetown University



Chapter 13: The Technocratic Paradigm: Diagnosis and Therapy

Neil Ormerod, Australian Catholic University



Chapter 14: Suffering in the Technocratic Paradigm

Brianne Jacobs, Fordham University



Part V: Social Ecologies: Politics and Activism



Chapter 15: Ecological Citizenship and a New Habitus

Anne Marie Dalton, St. Mary's University



Chapter 16: Preservationism, Environmental Justice, Smart Growth: Care for Our Common Home

Laura Stivers, Dominican University of California



Chapter 17: Resisting Nuclear Energy in South Africa: Drawing Inspiration from Laudato Si'

Andrew Warmback, St. Paul's Church, Diocese of Natal, Anglican Church of Southern Africa



Chapter 18: An Integral Issue: Population, Sustainable Development & Sexual Ethics

Michael Ross, University of St. Michael's College



Part VI: New Lifestyles: Education and Spirituality



Chapter 19: Placing Integral Ecology at the Heart of Education: Transformative Learning in Critical Conversation with Laudato Si'

Christopher Hrynkow, St. Thomas More College



Chapter 20:, Laudato Si': The Ecological Imperative of the Liturgy

Peter McGrail, Liverpool Hope University



Chapter 21: The Francis Effect? Investigating the Impact of Laudato Si' on Catholic Climate Change Engagement

Nicholas Smith, University of Westminster



Conclusion: Ecocide as Deicide: Eschatological Lamentation and the Possibility of Hope

Matthew Eaton, Kings College