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Book SynopsisIn the face of the current environmental crisis which clearly has moral and spiritual dimensions members of all the world s faiths have come to recognize the critical importance of religion s relationship to ecology.
Table of ContentsList of Contributors ix
Foreword xvii
Bartholomew I, Ecumenical Patriarch
Preface xix
Acknowledgments xxxi
I. Religions and Ecological Consciousness 1
Ecology Perspectives from Diverse Religious and Spiritual Traditions
1 God is Absolute Reality and All Creation His Tajallı̄ (Theophany) 3
Seyyed Hossein Nasr
2 Swaraj: From Chipko to Navdanya 12
Vandana Shiva
3 Eco‐Kabbalah: Holism and Mysticism in Earth‐Centered Judaism 20
David Mevorach Seidenberg
4 Laudato Sí in the Earth Commons—Integral Ecology and Socioecological Ethics 37
John Hart
5 神の大経綸: The Great Divine Plan: Kotama Okada’s Vision for Spiritual Civilization in the Twenty‐First Century 54
Kōō Okada
6 In the Time of the Sacred Places 71
Winona LaDuke
7 Eco‐Theology in the African Diaspora 85
Dianne D. Glave
8 Buddhist Interdependence and the Elemental Life 90
Christopher Key Chapple
9 Theodao: Integrating Ecological Consciousness in Daoism, Confucianism, and Christian Theology 104
Heup Young Kim
II. Care for the Earth and Life 115
Traditions’ Teachings in Socioecological Contexts
10 Science, Ecology, and Christian Theology 117
John F. Haught
11 Exploring Environmental Ethics in Islam: Insights from the Qur’an and the Practice of Prophet Muhammad 130
Fazlun M. Khalid
12 Science and Religion: Conflict or Concert? 146
Francisco J. Ayala
13 The Serpent in Eden and in Africa: Religions and Ecology 163
Kapya J. Kaoma
14 Jewish Environmental Ethics: The Imperative of Responsibility 179
Hava Tirosh‐Samuelson
15 Ecowomanism and Ecological Reparations 195
Melanie L. Harris
16 From Climate Debt to Climate Justice: God’s Love Embodied in Garden Earth 203
Cynthia Moe‐Lobeda
17 The Vision of St. Maximus the Confessor: That Creation May All Be One 220
Elizabeth Theokritoff
III. Ecological Commitment 237
Contextualization of Traditions in Diverse Contexts, Cultures, and Circumstances
18 From Social Justice to Creation Justice in the Anthropocene 239
Larry L. Rasmussen
19 Christianity, Ecofeminism, and Transformation 256
Heather Eaton
20 The Face of God in the World: Insights from the Orthodox Christian Tradition 273
John Chryssavgis
21 Climate Change and Christian Ethics 286
Michael S. Northcott
22 Islamic Environmental Teachings: Compatible with Ecofeminism? 301
Nawal H. Ammar and Allison Gray
23 The Divine Environment (al‐Muhit) and the Body of God: Seyyed Hossein Nasr and Sallie McFague Resacralize Nature 315
Ian S. Mevorach
24 Chondogyo and a Sacramental Commons: Korean Indigenous Religion and Christianity on Common Ground 331
Yongbum Park
25 The Religious Politics of Scientific Doubt: Evangelical Christians and Environmentalism in the United States 348
Myrna Perez Sheldon and Naomi Oreskes
26 The Covenant of Reciprocity 368
Robin Wall Kimmerer
IV. Visions for the Present and Future Earth 383
The Earth Transformed: Altered Consciousness and Conduct on Common Ground
27 Prayer as if Earth Really Matters 385
Arthur Waskow
28 The Evolutionary and Ecological Perspectives of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and Thomas Berry 394
Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim
29 Earth as Community Garden: The Bounty, Healing, and Justice of Holy Permaculture 410
Tallessyn Zawn Grenfell‐Lee
30 Theo‐Forming Earth Community: Meaning‐Full Creations 427
Whitney A. Bauman
31 Religious Environmentalism and Environmental Activism 439
Roger S. Gottlieb
32 Global Heating, Pope Francis, and the Promise of Laudato Sí 457
Bill McKibben
33 Respect for Mother Earth: Original Instructions and Indigenous Traditional Knowledge 460
Tom B. K. Goldtooth
34 Common Commons: Social and Sacred Space 471
John Hart
35 A New Partzuf for a New Paradigm: Living Earth—An Icon for Our Age 488
Zalman Shachter Shalomi and in Conversation with John Hart
Afterword 505
John B. Cobb, Jr.
Index 510
