Spirit of the Environment

Preface 1. Indian religious traditions, Puroshottama Bilimoria, Deakin University, Australia, 2. Chinese religion and ecology, Martin Palmer, ICOREC at Manchester University, UK and religious advisor to the WWF, 3. Religion and nature: the Abrahamic faiths' concepts of creation, His All-Holiness Bartolomeus and others, Ecumencial Patriarch of Constantinople, 4. Pantheism, Stephen R.L Clark, University of Liverpool, UK, 5. The real, the one and the many in ecological thought, Freya Mathews, La Trobe University, Australia, 6. The recovery of wisdom: Gaia theory and environmental policy, Anne Primavesi, University of Bristol, UK, 7. Nature and the environment in indigenous and traditional cultures, Kay Milton, Queens University, Belfast 8. Aetheticism and environmentalism, David E. Cooper, University of Durham, UK 9. The Romantics' view of nature, Greg Garrard, University of Liverpool, UK, 10. Philosophy and the environmental movement, Kate Rawles, University of Lancaster, UK, 11. Spiritual ideas, environmental concerns and educational practice, Joy A. Palmer, University of Durham, UK, 12. Spirit of the middle earth: practical thinking for an instrumental age, Richard D. Smith, University of Durham, Uk