Greener Faith Religious Environmentalism and Our Planet's Future

Name: Greener Faith Religious Environmentalism and Our Planet's Future
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ISBN: 9780195396201

ISBN-10: 0195396200

ISBN-13: 9780195396201

Edition: 2010

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. In A Greener Faith , Roger S. Gottlieb chronicles the promises of this critically important movement, illuminating its principal ideas, leading personalities, and ways of connecting care for the earth with justice for human beings. He also shows how religious environmentalism breaks the customary boundaries of "religious issues" in political life. Asserting that environmental degradation is sacrilegious, sinful, and an offense against God catapults religions directly into…

Book details

List price: $35.99
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/16/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 312
Size: 9.09" wide x 6.10" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.188
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