This Sacred Earth: Religion, Nature, EnvironmentRoutledge, 2003 M11 7 - 672 pages Updated with nearly forty new selections to reflect the tremendous growth and transformation of scholarly, theological, and activist religious environmentalism, the second edition of This Sacred Earth is an unparalleled resource for the study of religion's complex relationship to the environment. |
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Page 7
... existence before we have , as a world society , given adequate considera- tion to what this magnitude of human control over evolution could possibly mean . Given our track record with pesticides and toxic chemicals , and Introduction 7.
... existence before we have , as a world society , given adequate considera- tion to what this magnitude of human control over evolution could possibly mean . Given our track record with pesticides and toxic chemicals , and Introduction 7.
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... existence as the means by which to carry out the Torah . Re- move the Torah and there is no need for the universe . -The Family Chumash : Bereishis , Overviews by Rabbi Nosson Scherman ( New York : Mesorah Publications , 1989 ) , p . ix ...
... existence as the means by which to carry out the Torah . Re- move the Torah and there is no need for the universe . -The Family Chumash : Bereishis , Overviews by Rabbi Nosson Scherman ( New York : Mesorah Publications , 1989 ) , p . ix ...
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... existence of humanity . On the con- trary , all the other beings too have been intended for their own sakes , and not for the sake of something else ... -Guide to the Perplexed , Part III , Chapter 13 , quoted in Judaism and Ecology , a ...
... existence of humanity . On the con- trary , all the other beings too have been intended for their own sakes , and not for the sake of something else ... -Guide to the Perplexed , Part III , Chapter 13 , quoted in Judaism and Ecology , a ...
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... existence , and , at least in spots , their continued existence in a natural state . In short , a land ethic changes the role of Homo sapiens from conqueror of the land- community to plain member and citizen of it . It implies respect ...
... existence , and , at least in spots , their continued existence in a natural state . In short , a land ethic changes the role of Homo sapiens from conqueror of the land- community to plain member and citizen of it . It implies respect ...
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... existence with equal importance to all . The Lakota could despise no creature , for all were of one blood , made by the same hand , and filled with the essence of the Great Mystery . In spirit the Lakota was humble and meek . ' Blessed ...
... existence with equal importance to all . The Lakota could despise no creature , for all were of one blood , made by the same hand , and filled with the essence of the Great Mystery . In spirit the Lakota was humble and meek . ' Blessed ...
Contents
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Robert Pogue Harrison | 69 |
The Politics | 412 |
An EcoWomanist | 428 |
Irene Diamond and Sensuous Minds and the Possibilities | 438 |
Brooke Medicine Eagle The Rainbow Bridge | 462 |
Thomas Berry Into the Future | 492 |
How Animals | 505 |
Religious Practice for a Sacred Earth | 509 |
Thich Nhat Hanh Earth Gathas | 515 |
Hebrew Bible | 77 |
Quran | 90 |
Christian | 113 |
Michael Kioni Dudley Traditional Native Hawaiian | 124 |
Chatsumarn Kabilsingh Early Buddhist Views on Nature | 130 |
Awakening | 145 |
Mawil Y Izzi Deen Samarrai Islamic Environmental Ethics Law | 158 |
Richard B Peterson Central African Voices on the Human | 168 |
Stan McKay An Aboriginal Perspective on the Integrity | 175 |
Lea BillRippling Water Woman Learning to Connect Spirit Mind Body | 186 |
Lynn White The Historical Roots of our Ecological Crisis | 192 |
American Baptist Churches USA Creation and the Covenant of Caring | 210 |
Evangelical Environmental Evangelical Declaration on the Environment | 223 |
John F Haught Christianity and Ecology | 232 |
John B Cobb Jr Protestant Theology and Deep Ecology | 248 |
The Cosmic Christ | 262 |
Arthur Waskow What is EcoKosher? | 273 |
Nawal H Ammar An Islamic Response to the Manifest | 285 |
Christopher Key Chapple Hinduism and Deep Ecology | 300 |
Tu Weiming Beyond the Enlightenment Mentality | 316 |
The Sun Dance | 536 |
National Council of Churches Worship Resources Earth Day Sunday | 546 |
John Seed and Joanna Macy Gaia Meditations | 552 |
Marina Lachecki The Blessing of the Water | 558 |
Religion and Politics | 568 |
Wallace Environmental Justice Neopreservationism | 596 |
Green Sisters | 613 |
Catherine Ingram Interview with Cesar Chavez | 634 |
Seth Zuckerman Redwood Rabbis | 644 |
Spirit Lions and Sacred Forests | 651 |
Ernst Conradie Charity Majiza | 661 |
Sharma On Sustainability | 681 |
Mary John Mananzan Globalization and the Perennial Question | 688 |
United Church of Christ Statements by United Church of Christ | 712 |
Coordinadora de Defensa | 721 |
Interfaith Global Climate | 727 |
Joint Appeal by Religion | 735 |
SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING | 745 |
WEBSITES ON RELIGION AND THE ENVIRONMENT | 753 |
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