Table of Contents
List of Contributors ix
Foreword xvii
Bartholomew I, Ecumenical Patriarch
Preface xix
Acknowledgments xxxi
I. Religions and Ecological Consciousness 1
Ecology Perspectives from Diverse Religious and Spiritual Traditions
1 God is Absolute Reality and All Creation His Tajallī (Theophany) 3Seyyed Hossein Nasr
2 Swaraj: From Chipko to Navdanya 12Vandana Shiva
3 Eco‐Kabbalah: Holism and Mysticism in Earth‐Centered Judaism 20David Mevorach Seidenberg
4 Laudato Sí in the Earth Commons—Integral Ecology and Socioecological Ethics 37John Hart
5 神の大経綸: The Great Divine Plan: Kotama Okada’s Vision for Spiritual Civilization in the Twenty‐First Century 54Kōō Okada
6 In the Time of the Sacred Places 71Winona LaDuke
7 Eco‐Theology in the African Diaspora 85Dianne D. Glave
8 Buddhist Interdependence and the Elemental Life 90Christopher Key Chapple
9 Theodao: Integrating Ecological Consciousness in Daoism, Confucianism, and Christian Theology 104Heup Young Kim
II. Care for the Earth and Life 115
Traditions’ Teachings in Socioecological Contexts
10 Science, Ecology, and Christian Theology 117John F. Haught
11 Exploring Environmental Ethics in Islam: Insights from the Qur’an and the Practice of Prophet Muhammad 130Fazlun M. Khalid
12 Science and Religion: Conflict or Concert? 146Francisco J. Ayala
13 The Serpent in Eden and in Africa: Religions and Ecology 163Kapya J. Kaoma
14 Jewish Environmental Ethics: The Imperative of Responsibility 179Hava Tirosh‐Samuelson
15 Ecowomanism and Ecological Reparations 195Melanie L. Harris
16 From Climate Debt to Climate Justice: God’s Love Embodied in Garden Earth 203Cynthia Moe‐Lobeda
17 The Vision of St. Maximus the Confessor: That Creation May All Be One 220Elizabeth Theokritoff
III. Ecological Commitment 237
Contextualization of Traditions in Diverse Contexts, Cultures, and Circumstances
18 From Social Justice to Creation Justice in the Anthropocene 239Larry L. Rasmussen
19 Christianity, Ecofeminism, and Transformation 256Heather Eaton
20 The Face of God in the World: Insights from the Orthodox Christian Tradition 273John Chryssavgis
21 Climate Change and Christian Ethics 286Michael S. Northcott
22 Islamic Environmental Teachings: Compatible with Ecofeminism? 301Nawal H. Ammar and Allison Gray
23 The Divine Environment (al‐Muhit) and the Body of God: Seyyed Hossein Nasr and Sallie McFague Resacralize Nature 315Ian S. Mevorach
24 Chondogyo and a Sacramental Commons: Korean Indigenous Religion and Christianity on Common Ground 331Yongbum Park
25 The Religious Politics of Scientific Doubt: Evangelical Christians and Environmentalism in the United States 348Myrna Perez Sheldon and Naomi Oreskes
26 The Covenant of Reciprocity 368Robin Wall Kimmerer
IV. Visions for the Present and Future Earth 383
The Earth Transformed: Altered Consciousness and Conduct on Common Ground
27 Prayer as if Earth Really Matters 385Arthur Waskow
28 The Evolutionary and Ecological Perspectives of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and Thomas Berry 394Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim
29 Earth as Community Garden: The Bounty, Healing, and Justice of Holy Permaculture 410Tallessyn Zawn Grenfell‐Lee
30 Theo‐Forming Earth Community: Meaning‐Full Creations 427Whitney A. Bauman
31 Religious Environmentalism and Environmental Activism 439Roger S. Gottlieb
32 Global Heating, Pope Francis, and the Promise of Laudato Sí 457Bill McKibben
33 Respect for Mother Earth: Original Instructions and Indigenous Traditional Knowledge 460Tom B. K. Goldtooth
34 Common Commons: Social and Sacred Space 471John Hart
35 A New Partzuf for a New Paradigm: Living Earth—An Icon for Our Age 488Zalman Shachter Shalomi and in Conversation with John Hart
Afterword 505
John B. Cobb, Jr.
Index 510