RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD AND ECOLOGY
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Ecology and the Environment

Perspectives from the Humanities

Edited by Donald K. Swearer

Foreword by Daniel P. Schrag

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$15.95 • £13.95 • €14.95

ISBN 9780945454434

Publication Date: 03/31/2009

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138 pages

5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches

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The scientific, political, and economic policy debates about the global environmental crisis have tended to ignore its historical, ethical, religious, and aesthetic dimensions. This book redresses that omission by highlighting these humanistic components that are integral to the fabric of our ecological understanding and, consequentially, essential to a broad, multidisciplinary approach to environmental studies and public policy initiatives.

In this slim volume, seven world-class scholars discuss the wide range of perspectives that the fields of literature, history, religion, philosophy, environmental ethics, and anthropology bring to the natural environment and our place in it. The preface summarizes the development of the religion and ecology movement; the editor’s critical introduction highlights the essays’ major themes. Bringing insights from the humanities to bear on ecological concerns, this volume will appeal to a wide audience in the humanities and environmental studies, policy makers, and the general public. The book represents a continuation of the Center for the Study of World Religions’s highly regarded Religions of the World and Ecology series.

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