Greener Faith Religious Environmentalism and Our Planet's Future

Name: Greener Faith Religious Environmentalism and Our Planet's Future
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ISBN: 9780195176483

ISBN-10: 0195176480

ISBN-13: 9780195176483

Edition: 2006

Authors: Roger S. Gottlieb

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In a time of darkening environmental prospects, frightening religious fundamentalism, and moribund liberalism, the remarkable and historically unprecedented rise of religious environmentalism is a profound source of hope. Theologians are recovering marginalized nature-honoring elements of traditional religions and forging bold new theologies connecting devotion to God and spiritual truth with love for God's creation and care for the Earth. Further, these innovative ideas are giving rise to far-reaching political action. The successes and significance of religious environmentalism are manifest in statements by leaders of virtually all the world's religions, in new and 'green' forms of prayer…

Book details

List price: $69.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/15/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Size: 9.29" wide x 6.30" long x 1.18" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



Introduction: Religion and the Human Meaning of Environmental Crisis



Religion, Nature, Environment



Religious Environmentalism and Secular Society



Sustainable Religion



Religious Environmentalism in Action



Environmentalism as Spirituality



Opening the Heart: The Ritual Life of Religious Environmentalism



Five Faces of Religious Environmentalism



Obstacles, Prospects, Hope


Notes


Index