This Sacred Earth: Religion, Nature, Environment

by S. Gottlieb; Roger

• ISBN13: 9780415943604
• ISBN10: 0415943604
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781136915468
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-11-04
• Publisher: Routledge
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Summary

Updating a classic ground-breaking survey of religion's complex relationship to the environment,This Sacred Earth, Second Edition reflects the last decade's tremendous growth and transformation of scholarly, theological, and activist religious environmentalism. Roger S. Gottlieb has added nearly forty new selections, retaining the strengths of the first edition and dramatically expanding the book's cross-cultural scope. From Christian ecotheology and Buddhist critiques of economic globalization to religious environmental activism and spiritual practices to celebrate the sacredness of nature, the book includes careful scholarship, groundbreaking theology, historical analysis, and accounts of real world struggles. Fully engaged with both the world's religious traditions and the worldwide environmental crisis, This Sacred Earth is an invaluable teaching resource and inspiring introduction to religion's complex relationship to the environment.

Author Biography

Roger S. Gottlieb is Professor of Philosophy at Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Table of Contents

PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS	xv
INTRODUCTION
Religion in an Age of Environmental Crisis	1	(15)
INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND EDITION	16	(5)
Good News/Bad News
PART I The Moment of Seeing
Selections from Nature Writers Linking Nature and Spirit	21	(30)
Matsuo Bashõ
from the Haibun (trans. David Landis Barnhill)	24	(2)
William Hazlitt
"On the Lure of the Country"	26	(3)
Henry David Thoreau
from "Walking"	29	(3)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Nature"	32	(2)
John Muir
from Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf	34	(2)
Aldo Leopold
from A Sand County Almanac	36	(3)
Luther Standing Bear
"Nature"	39	(4)
Robert Finch
"Seeing the Light"	43	(3)
Linda Hogan
"The Kill Hole"	46	(5)
PART II How Have Traditional Religions Viewed Nature?	51	(138)
Fanetorens (Ray Fadden)
"The Creation"	56	(5)
Joseph L. Henderson and Maud Oaks
"Death and Rebirth of the Universe" (Hindu)	61	(1)
"The Parade of Ants" (Hindu)	62	(3)
"The Five Suns" (Aztec)	65	(1)
"Persephone" (Greek)	66	(3)
Robert Pogue Harrison
from Forests: The Shadow of Civilization	69	(4)
Lao Tzu
from the Tao Te Ching	73	(4)
Hebrew Bible
Selections	77	(13)
Qur'an
Selections	90	(2)
Daniel Swartz
"Jews, Jewish Texts, and Nature: A Brief History"	92	(18)
Louis Ginzberg
from Legends of the Bible	110	(3)
Anna Peterson
from "In and of the World: Christian Theological Anthropology and Environmental Ethics"	113	(11)
Michael Kioni Dudley
"Traditional Native Hawaiian Environmental Philosophy"	124	(6)
Chatsumarn Kabilsingh
"Early Buddhist Views on Nature"	130	(4)
Leslie E. Sponsel and Poranee Natadecha-Sponsel
"Illuminating Darkness: The Monk-Cave Bat-Ecosystem Complex in Thailand"	134	(11)
O.P. Dwivedi
"Satyagraha for Conservation: Awakening the Spirit of Hinduism"	145	(13)
Mawil Y. Izzi Deen (Samarrai)
"Islamic Environmental Ethics, Law, and Society"	158	(10)
Richard B. Peterson
"Central African Voices on the Human Environment Relationship"	168	(7)
Stan McKay
"An Aboriginal Perspective on the Integrity of Creation"	175	(5)
Patrick Segundad
"Biodiversity and Tradition in Malaysia"	180	(6)
Lea Bill-Rippling Water Woman
"Learning to Connect Spirit, Mind, Body, and Heart to the Environment: A Healer's Perspective"	186	(3)
PART III Ecotheology in an Age of Environmental Crisis Transforming Tradition	189	(194)
Lynn White
"The Historical Roots of our Ecological Crisis"	192	(10)
Pope John Paul II
"The Ecological Crisis: A Common Responsibility"	202	(8)
American Baptist Churches USA
"Creation and the Covenant of Caring"	210	(5)
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
"Basis for Our Caring"	215	(8)
Evangelical Environmental Network	223	(4)
"Evangelical Declaration on the Environment"
Ecumenical Patriarch
"Address of His All Holiness Ecumenical Bartholomew Patriarch Bartholomew"	227	(5)
John F. Haught
"Christianity and Ecology"	232	(16)
John B. Cobb, Jr.
"Protestant Theology and Deep Ecology"	248	(14)
Sallie McFague
"The Scope of the Body: The Cosmic Christ"	262	(11)
Arthur Waskow
"What is Eco-Kosher?"	273	(4)
Theodore Walker, Jr.
"African-American Resources for a More Inclusive Liberation Theology"	277	(8)
Nawal H. Ammar
"An Islamic Response to the Manifest Ecological Crisis: Issues of Justice"	285	(15)
Christopher Key Chapple
"Hinduism and Deep Ecology"	300	(16)
Tu Weiming
"Beyond the Enlightenment Mentality"	316	(14)
Stephanie Kaza
"To Save All Beings: Buddhist Environmental Activism"	330	(21)
Gary A. Kowalski
"Somebody, Not Something: Do Animals Have Souls?"	351	(4)
Andrew Linzey
"The Theological Basis of Animal Rights"	355	(6)
Roger S. Gottlieb
"No Place to Hide: Spirituality, Avoidance, and Denial"	361	(22)
PART IV Ecotheology in an Age of Environmental Crisis: Eco feminist Spirituality	383	(88)
Rosemary Radford Ruether
"Ecofeminism: Symbolic and Social Connections of the Oppression of Women and the Domination of Nature"	388	(12)
Ivone Gebara
"The Trinity and Human Experience: An Ecofeminist Approach"	400	(12)
Shamara Shantu Riley
"Ecology Is a Sistah's Issue Too: The Politics of Emergent Afrocentric Ecowomanism"	412	(16)
Karen Baker-Fletcher
"Something or Nothing: An Eco-Womanist Essay on God, Creation, and Indispensability"	428	(10)
Irene Diamond and
"Sensuous Minds and the Possibilities David Seidenberg of a Jewish Ecofeminist Practice"	438	(11)
Riane Eisler
"Messages from the Past: The World of the Goddess"	449	(13)
Brooke Medicine Eagle
"The Rainbow Bridge"	462	(4)
Vandana Shiva
"The Chipko Women's Concept of Freedom"	466	(5)
PART V Ecotheology in an Age of Environmental Crisis: Spiritual Deep Ecology	471	(38)
Edna St. Vincent Millay
"The Fawn"	475	(1)
David Abram
"The Ecology of Magic"	476	(16)
Thomas Berry
"Into the Future"	492	(5)
Joanna Macy
"Faith, Power, and Ecology"	497	(8)
Paul Shepard
from The Others: How Animals Made us Human	505	(4)
PART VI Religious Practice for a Sacred Earth	509	(54)
Dee Smith
"Dance to Heal the Earth"	513	(2)
Thick Nhat Hanh
"Earth Gathas"	515	(2)
Ellen Bernstein and Dan Fink
"Blessings and Praise" and "Bal Tashchit"	517	(19)
Black Elk
"Wiwanyag Wachipi: The Sun Dance"	536	(10)
National Council of Churches
"Worship Resources, Earth Day Sunday"	546	(4)
John Seed
"Invocation"	550	(2)
John Seed and Joanna Macy
"Gaia Meditations"	552	(2)
John Seed and Pat Fleming
"Evolutionary Remembering"	554	(4)
Marina Lachecki
"The Blessing of the Water"	558	(5)
PART VII Ecology, Religion, and Society	563	(182)
Roger S. Gottlieb
"Saving the World: Religion and Politics in the Environmental Movement"	568	(28)
Mark I. Wallace
"Environmental Justice, Neopreservationism, and Sustainable Spirituality"	596	(17)
Sarah McFarland Taylor
"Reinhabiting Religion: Green Sisters, Ecological Renewal, and the Biogeography of Religious Landscape"	613	(21)
Catherine Ingram
"Interview with Cesar Chavez"	634	(10)
Seth Zuckerman
"Redwood Rabbis"	644	(3)
Evelyn Martin
"Of Telescopes, Squirrels, and Prayers: The Mt. Graham Controversy"	647	(4)
Bruce Byers
"Mhondoro: Spirit Lions and Sacred Forests"	651	(10)
Ernst Conradie, Charity Majiza, Jim Cochrane, Welile T. Sigabi, Victor Molobi, and David Field
"Seeking Eco-Justice in the South African Context"	661	(20)
B.D. Sharma
"On Sustainability"	681	(7)
Mary John Mananzan
"Globalization and the Perennial Question of Justice"	688	(7)
William F. Fisher
"Sacred Rivers, Sacred Dams: Competing Visions of Social Justice and Sustainable Development along the Narmada"	695	(17)
United Church of Christ
"Statements by United Church of Christ on Environmental Racism in St. Louis"	712	(4)
Jonna Higgins-Freese and Jeff Tomhave
"Race, Sacrifice, and Native Lands"	716	(5)
Coordinadora de Defensa del Agua y de la Vida (Coalition in Defense of Water and Life)
"The Cochabamba Declaration on Water: Globalization, Privatization, and the Search for Alternatives"	721	(2)
Melody Ermachild Chavis
"Street Trees"	723	(4)
Interfaith Global Climate Change Campaign, North Carolina Chapter
"Statement on Global Warming and Climate Change by North Carolina's Religious and Spiritual Leaders"	727	(2)
The First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit
"Principles of Environmental Justice"	729	(2)
Religious Leaders at the Summit on Environment
"Statement by Religious Leaders at the Summit on Environment"	731	(4)
Joint Appeal by Religion and Science for the Environment
"Declaration of the 'Mission to Washington'"	735	(3)
United States Catholic Conference
"Catholic Social Teaching and Environmental Ethics"	738	(7)
SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING	745	(8)
WEBSITES ON RELIGION AND THE ENVIRONMENT	753	(1)
ENVIRONMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS	754	(2)
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS	756