Good in Nature and Humanity Connecting Science, Religion, and Spirituality with the Natural World

Name: Good in Nature and Humanity Connecting Science, Religion, and Spirituality with the Natural World
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ISBN: 9781559638388

ISBN-10: 1559638389

ISBN-13: 9781559638388

Edition: 2nd 2002

Authors: Stephen R. Kellert, Timothy Farnham, Timothy Farnham

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20 leading thinkers and writers examine the divide between faith and reason and seek a means of developing an environmental ethic that will help alleviate global environmental destruction and impoverished spirituality.

Book details

List price: $45.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Island Press
Publication date: 1/1/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 296
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Stephen R. Kellert is Tweedy Ordway Professor Emeritus of Social Ecology at Yale University's School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. He is the author of a number of books, including Building for Life: Designing and Understanding the Human-Nature Connection, and the coeditor of Children and Nature: Psychological, Sociocultural, and Evolutionary Foundations (MIT Press).



Preface


Acknowledgments



Building the Bridge: Connecting Science, Religion, and Spirituality with the Natural World




Scientific and Spiritual Perspectives of Nature and Humanity


Introduction to Part I: Ethics and the Good in Nature and Humanity




The Contribution of Scientific Understandings of nature to Moral, Spiritual, and Religious Wholeness and Well-Being




Spiritual and Religious Perspectives of Creation and Scientific Understanding of Nature




Values, Ethics, and Spiritual and Scientific Relations to Nature




Religion and Ecology: The Interaction of Cosmology and Cultivation




Gaia and the Ethical Abyss: A Natural Ethic Is a G[o]od Thing




Religious Meanings for Nature and Humanity




A Livable Future: Linking Geology and Theology




Alma De'atei, "The World That Is Coming": Reflections on Power, Knowledge, Wisdom, and Progress




Linking Spiritual and Scientific Perspectives with an Environmental Ethic


Introduction to Part II: The Search for Harmony




Work, Worship, and the Natural World: A Challenge for the Land Use Professions




Leopold's Darwin: Climbing Mountains, Developing Land




A Rising Tide for Ethics




Hunting for Spirituality: An Oxymoron?




The Idea of a Local Economy




From the Perspective of the Storyteller



The Garden of Delights: A Reading from Leap




The Mappist



Notes


About the Contributors


Index