Spirit of the Environment

Religion, Value and Environmental Concern
Erscheinungsjahr 1998
ISBN: 978-0-415-14202-1
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 336 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cooper, David E

Palmer, Joy A

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religion & Wissenschaft
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltüberwachung, Umweltanalytik, Umweltinformatik
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Angewandte Ökologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Religion & Wissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie Christliche Theologie und die Wissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1 Indian religious traditions, Purushottama Bilimoria; Chapter 2 Chinese religion and ecology, Martin Palmer; Chapter 3 Religion and nature, All-Holiness Bartolomeus, Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg, Fazlun Khalid, Martin Palmer; Chapter 4 Pantheism, Stephen R.L. Clark; Chapter 5 The real, the one and the many in ecological thought, Freya Mathews; Chapter 6 The recovery of wisdom, Anne Primavesi; Chapter 7 Nature and the environment in indigenous and traditional cultures, Kay Milton; Chapter 8 Aestheticism and environmentalism, David E. Cooper; Chapter 9 The Romantics’ view of nature, Greg Garrard; Chapter 10 Philosophy and the environmental movement, Kate Rawles; Chapter 11 Spiritual ideas, environmental concerns and educational practice, Joy A. Palmer; Chapter 12 Spirit of middle earth, Richard Smith;

Über Autor(innen)

David E.Cooper is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Durham.,

Joy A.Palmer is Reader in Education and Director of the Centre for Research on Environmental Thinking and Awareness at the University of Durham. Both have published widely; they are the editors of The Environment in Question (1992) and Just Environments (1995), also published by Routledge.