The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Ecology

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Roger S. Gottlieb (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, Worcester Polytechnic Institute)

The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Ecology

Roger S. Gottlieb (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, Worcester Polytechnic Institute)

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Oxford University Press Inc
01 February 2007

Religious issues & debates; Religious social & pastoral thought & activity; The environment; Environmentalist thought & ideology; Applied ecology; Social impact of environmental issues

Series: Oxford Handbooks

The last two decades have seen the emergence of a new field of academic study that examines the interaction between religion and ecology. Theologians from every religious tradition have confronted world religions past attitudes towards nature and acknowledged their own faiths complicity in the environmental crisis. Out of this confrontation have been born vital new theologies based in the recovery of marginalized elements of tradition, profound criticisms of the past, and ecologically oriented visions of God, the Sacred, the Earth, and human beings. The proposed handbook will serve as the definitive overview of these exciting new developments. Divided into three main sections, the books essays will reflect the three dominant dimensions of the field. Part one will explore traditional religious concepts of and attitudes towards nature and how these have been changed by the environmental crisis. Part II looks at larger conceptual issues that transcend individual traditions. Part III will examine religious participation in environmental politics.

Edited by: Roger S. Gottlieb (Professor of Philosophy Professor of Philosophy Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 173mm, Width: 249mm, Spine: 53mm
Weight: 1.321kg
ISBN: 9780195178722
ISBN 10: 0195178726
Series: Oxford Handbooks
Pages: 688
Publication Date: 01 February 2007
Audience: Adult education , Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Roger S. Gottlieb is Professor of Philosophy at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He is the author or editor of fourteen books and more than 50 articles on political philosophy, religious life, the Holocaust, environmentalism, and disability, including A Greener Faith: Religious Environmentalism and Our Planet's Future (OUP 2006), This Sacred Earth: Religion, Nature, Environment (second edition, 2003) and Joining Hands: Politics and Religion Together for Social Change (2002). He writes a column for the national magazine Tikkun and serves on the editorial boards of four scholarly journals.

Reviews for The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Ecology

a 'state-of-the-art' report which provides an introduction to the field or further development of exploration of it. It would seem to seve best as the former...as a way of promoting the field and exploring some of its main issue the Handbook works well. It is an interesting, stimulating, and useful book, well researched and well written. Tony Watling, Journal of Contemporary Religion ...essential work. Nigel Cooper, The Church Times This is truly a ray of light among all the messages of doom. Northern Echo (Darlington/ South Durham)