ABSTRACT

Updated with nearly forty new selections to reflect the tremendous growth and transformation of scholarly, theological, and activist religious environmentalism, the second edition of This Sacred Earth is an unparalleled resource for the study of religion's complex relationship to the environment.

part |3 pages

PART I The Moment of Seeing Selections from Nature Writers Linking Nature and Spirit

chapter |2 pages

from the Haibun

chapter |3 pages

“On the Lure of the Country”

chapter |3 pages

from “Walking”

chapter |2 pages

“Nature”

chapter |2 pages

from Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf

chapter |3 pages

from A Sand County Almanac

chapter |4 pages

“Nature”

chapter |3 pages

“Seeing the Light”

chapter |5 pages

“The Kill Hole”

part |5 pages

PART II How Have Traditional Religions Viewed Nature?

chapter |5 pages

“The Creation”

chapter |4 pages

from the Tao Te Ching

chapter |13 pages

Hebrew Bible Selections

chapter |2 pages

Qur'an Selections

chapter |3 pages

from Legends of the Bible

chapter |4 pages

“Early Buddhist Views on Nature”

part |3 pages

PART III Ecotheology in an Age of Environmental Crisis Transforming Tradition

chapter |8 pages

“Basis for Our Caring”

chapter |16 pages

“Christianity and Ecology”

chapter |4 pages

“What is Eco-Kosher?”

chapter |16 pages

“Hinduism and Deep Ecology”

chapter |14 pages

“Beyond the Enlightenment Mentality”

part |5 pages

PART IV Ecotheology in an Age of Environmental Crisis: Ecofeminist Spirituality

part |4 pages

PART V Ecotheology in an Age of Environmental Crisis: Spiritual Deep Ecology

chapter |1 pages

“The Fawn”

chapter |16 pages

“The Ecology of Magic”

chapter |5 pages

“Into the Future”

chapter |8 pages

“Faith, Power, and Ecology”

part |4 pages

PART VI Religious Practice for a Sacred Earth

chapter |2 pages

“Dance to Heal the Earth”

chapter |2 pages

“Earth Gathas”

chapter |10 pages

“Wiwanyag Wachipi: The Sun Dance”

chapter |2 pages

“Invocation”

chapter |2 pages

“Gaia Meditations”

chapter |4 pages

“Evolutionary Remembering”

chapter |5 pages

“The Blessing of the Water”

part |5 pages

PART VII Ecology, Religion, and Society

chapter |10 pages

“Interview with Cesar Chavez”

chapter |3 pages

“Redwood Rabbis”

chapter |7 pages

“On Sustainability”

chapter |5 pages

“Race, Sacrifice, and Native Lands”

chapter |4 pages

“Street Trees”

chapter |8 pages

SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING

chapter |2 pages

ENVIRONMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS

chapter |7 pages

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