Multicultural and Religious Perspectives on Protecting the Environment, the Biosphere, and Biodiversity

Introduction 1. UNESCO, global bioethics, and the environment 2. Integral Ecology, Natural Order & the Relational Self: Towards A Postsecular Synthesis in a New Ecological Age? 3. Two Sides of the Same Coin: Global Bioethics and Social Teaching of the Church in Convergence for a Sustainable Development Environment PART 1: SECULAR PERSPECTIVES 4. The Principle of Environmental Beneficence: towards an ethical principle for environmentally sustainable medicine 5. Environmentally Sustainable Healthcare: Reflections by a Christian Realist PART 2: MONOTHEISTIC TRADITIONS: ISLAM 6. Islam, Biodiversity and Bioethic 7. A response to Luzita Ball from a Jewish point of view PART 3: MONOTHEISTIC TRADITIONS: CHRISTIANITY 8. An Orthodox Christian Ecological Ethic 9. Bioethics and environmental ethics: a historical perspective on a missed opportunity. A response to Durante from a secular perspective 10. Protestant Christianity and the Environment 11. Protestantism and the Environment: A Buddhist Response PART 4: MONOTHEISTIC TRADITIONS: JUDAISM 12. Jewish Environmental Ethics: A Proposal for Non-Anthropocentrism 13. Abrahamic and Indian Environmental Ethics PART 5: ASIAN TRADITIONS: DAOISM 14. A Chinese Concept of Integral Ecology from a Daoist Perspective 15. Terms of Engagement: A Muslim Reflection on Human Ecology in Response to Kwok and Lai PART 6: ASIAN TRADITIONS: CONFUCIANISM 16. Environmental protection and obligations: A Confucian perspective 17. Catholic Thoughts on a Confucian Perspective on the Environmental Crisis PART 7: ASIAN TRADITIONS: BUDDHISM 18. A Construction of Environmental Ethics from a Buddhist Perspective 19. The Buddhist Principle of Non-harm to Life (Ashima) in Different Cultural Regions: A Confucian Response to Ellen Zhang 20. Buddhist Perspectives on Bioethics: 'Interbeing,' 'Ecodharma,' and 'Ecosattva' 21.Dialogue between Buddhism and Global Bioethics on Ecology PART 8: ASIAN TRADITIONS: HINDUISM 22. Are there norms in the Indian Tradition regarding the Environment? Hinduism as State Religion 23. Modernity, religion, and India: weaving the threads of a complex historical process together 24. Environment, Hinduism and the Words of Wisdom 25. Protecting the Environment, the Biosphere, and Biodiversity: A Response to Prof. Kishore.