- Foreword [Satya Ranjan Banerjee]
- Introduction [Christopher Key Chapple]
- I. Jain Theories about the Nature of the Universe
- The Jain Worldview and Ecology [Nathmal Tatia]
- Jain Ecological Perspectives [John M. Koller]
- The Nature of Nature: Jain Perspectives on the Natural World [Kristi L. Wiley]
- II. Challenges to the Possibility of a Jain Environmental Ethic
- Green Jainism? Notes and Queries toward a Possible Jain Environmental Ethic [John E. Cort]
- The Limits of a Jain Environmental Ethic [Paul Dundas]
- The Living Earth of Jainism and the New Story: Rediscovering and Reclaiming a Functional Cosmology [Christopher Key Chapple]
- Ecology, Economics, and Development in Jainism [Padmanabh S. Jaini]
- III. Voices within the Tradition: Jainism Is Ecological
- The Environmental and Ecological Teachings of Tīrthaṅkara Mahāvīra [Sadhvi Shilapi]
- Ecology and Spirituality in the Jain Tradition [Bhagchandra Jain ‘Bhaskar’]
- Jain Ecology [Satish Kumar]
- IV. Tradition and Modernity: Can Jainism Meet the Environmental Challenge?
- From Liberation to Ecology: Ethical Discourses among Orthodox and Diaspora Jains [Anne Vallely]
- Appendix: The Jain Declaration on Nature [L. M. Singhvi]
- Select Bibliography
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD AND ECOLOGY
Jainism and Ecology
Nonviolence in the Web of Life
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Publication Date: 09/01/2002
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