Spirit of the Environment
Religion, Value and Environmental Concern
Routledge (Publisher)
Published on 12. February 1998
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Hardback
224 pages
978-0-415-14201-4 (ISBN)
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Description
Spirit of the Environment brings spiritual and religious concerns to environmental issues. Providing a much needed alternative to exploring human beings' relationship to the natural world through the restrictive lenses of 'science', 'ecology', or even 'morality', this book offers a fresh perspective to the field.
Spirit of the Enironment addresses:
* the environmental attitudes of the major religions;
* the relationship between art and nature;
* the Gaia hypothesis;
* the non-instrumental values which have inspired environmental concern.
Contributors range from a variety of disciplines including philosophy, comparative religion, education and social anthropology, providing students with an intriguing survey on the role that spirituality and religion play in nature.
This is a vital collection for those eager to examine the relationship between the spiritual and the environment.
Spirit of the Enironment addresses:
* the environmental attitudes of the major religions;
* the relationship between art and nature;
* the Gaia hypothesis;
* the non-instrumental values which have inspired environmental concern.
Contributors range from a variety of disciplines including philosophy, comparative religion, education and social anthropology, providing students with an intriguing survey on the role that spirituality and religion play in nature.
This is a vital collection for those eager to examine the relationship between the spiritual and the environment.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Undergraduate
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-14201-4 (9780415142014)
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Content
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