Nature and the environment in contemporary religious contexts
Preface --Introduction --Part I. Our human contexts within nature.1.Ecologies of diversity: beyond religious and human exceptionalism /Katherine Keller --2.Measured ecological humanism of the Qur'an and international development: a comparative look /M. Ashraf Adeel --3.Modernity, secularism, and the exclusion of nature: why religion matters /Hassam S. Timani --4.Animal talk: what ethical lessons do animals teach on Aggadic Midrash about the environment? /Daniel Maoz --5.A vast net of interconnected diamonds: Buddhist view of nature /Tatjana Myoko V. Prittwitz --6.Dietrich Bonhoeffer as an ecological theologian /jamison Stallman --7.Pope Francis' encyclical and Catholic magisterial statements on ecological ethics /Nancy M. Rourke --Part II. Imperatives from sacred texts and traditions.8.Who will inherit God's world? the righteous of Sura 21 and Psalm 37 /Barbara Pemberton --9.Interreligious encounter in the Hebrew Bible and New Testament: models for the anthropocene /Richard C. Salter --10.Green book: Qur'anic teachings on creation and nature /Fatih Harpci --11.The protection of nature and the environment: a case for restoring 'Dharma' in the Hindu world /Narwaraj Chaulagain --Part III. Practicing the imperatives.12.Pope Francis, care for creation, and popular movements /Marvin L. Mich --13.Three sages: conversations on ecology /Monica Weis --14.Prospects for dialogue between Russian Orthodox and Muslims on the environmental crisis /Andrii Krawchuk --15.The flowering of India: a Mughal manifesto for environmentalism /Michael D. Calabria --16.Deforestation in the Congo Basin and global climate change: an ethic of environmental responsibility based on African spirituality /Leocadie Lushombo --g17.'That we may sow beauty': reading Jewish, Christian, and Muslim classics for interreligious dialogue about the environmental crisis /Elizabeth Adams-Eilers.