• Abbreviations


• Contributors


• Introduction: Religion and Ecology-What Is the Connection and Why Does It Matter?


• Roger S. Gottlieb


• Part I:


• Transforming Tradition


• 1. Judaism


• Hava Tirosh-Samuelson


• 2. Catholicism


• John Hart


• 3. The Earth as Sacrament: Insights from Orthodox Christian Theology and Spirituality


• John Chryssavgis


• 4. The World of Nature according to the Protestant Tradition


• H. Paul Santmire and John B. Cobb Jr.


• 5. Jainism and Ecology: Transformation of Tradition


• Christopher Key Chapple


• 6. Hindu Religion and Environmental Well-being


• O. P. Dwivedi


• 7. The Greening of Buddhism: Promise and Perils


• Stephanie Kaza


• 8. Islam


• Richard C. Foltz


• 9. Daoism and Nature


• James Miller


• 10. Motifs for a New Confucian Ecological Vision


• John Berthrong


• 11. Religion and Ecology in African Culture and Society


• Jacob Olupona


• 12. Indigenous Traditions: Religion and Ecology


• John A. Grim


• Part II:


• Religion and Ecology: Conflicts and Connections


• 13. Population, Religion, and Ecology


• Daniel C. Maguire


• 14. Genetic Engineering and Nature: Human and Otherwise


• Thomas A. Shannon


• 15. So Near and Yet So Far: Animal Theology and Ecological Theology


• Andrew Linzey


• 16. Religious Ecofeminism: Healing the Ecological Crisis


• Rosemary Radford Ruether


• 17. Science and Religion in the Face of the Environmental Crisis


• Holmes Rolston III


• 18. Religion and Ecology: Survey of the Field


• Mary Evelyn Tucker


• 19. The Spiritual Dimension of Nature Writing


• David Landis Barnhill


• 20. Religion, Environmentalism, and the Meaning of Ecology


• Lisa H. Sideris


• Part III:


• Religious Environmental Activism


• 21. Religious Environmentalism in Action


• Roger S. Gottlieb


• 22. Religion and Environmental Struggles in Latin America


• Lois Ann Lorentzen and Salvador Leavitt-Alcantara


• 23. African Initiated Churches as Vehicles of Earth-Care in Africa


• Marthinus L. Daneel


• 24. The Scientist and the Shepherd: The Emergence of Evangelical Environmentalism


• Calvin B. DeWitt


• 25. Religion and Environmentalism in America and Beyond


• Bron Taylor


• Bibliography


• Index

Roger S. Gottlieb is professor of philosophy at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He is the author or editor of fourteen books and more than one hundred 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 (2nd 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.

This book serves as the definitive scholarly overview of the exciting new developments in understandings of religion's relation to ecology. With essays by the leading scholars in the field, many of whom have themselves been instrumental in the rise of religious environmentalism, this Handbook will be invaluable to anyone interested in religion, environmentalism, and the future of our planet.