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The environmental crisis creates an unprecedented moral predicament: how to be a good person when our collective and individual actions contribute to immeasurable devastation and suffering. Drawing on an extraordinary range of sources from philosophy, political theory, global religion, ecology, and contemporary spirituality, Roger S. Gottlieb explores the ethical ambiguities, challenges, and opportunities we face. Engagingly written, intellectually rigorous, and forcefully argued, this volume investigates the moral value of nature; the possibility of an 'ecological' democracy; how we treat animals; the demands and limits of individual responsibility and collective political change; contemporary ambiguities of rationality; and how to face environmental despair. In Morality and the Environmental Crisis, Gottlieb combines compassion for the difficulties of contemporary moral life with an unflinching ethical commitment to awareness and action.

Did Martin Luther King's spiritual understanding of political struggle truly help the Civil Rights movement? Can breast cancer victims incorporate both spiritual wisdom and political action in their fight for life? Confronting questions that challenge the foundations of both politics and spirituality, Roger S. Gottlieb presents a brave new account

This book gathers a variety of illuminating essays by an internationally known scholar of religion and ecology. New writings on technology, facing death, and an intellectual autobiography continue Gottlieb's unique ability to connect collective struggles for a just and caring society with personal strivings for wisdom and compassion.

What it is -- Spirit in motion -- Spiritual path -- Spirituality in religious tradition -- How spirituality became modern -- Spiritual but not religious -- Practice, practice, practice -- Why now? -- Why it matters -- Spirituality and healing -- Spirituality and nature -- Spirituality and politics -- End-beginning -- Grace and despair

Exploring traditional religious concepts of and attitudes towards nature and how these have been changed by the environmental crisis, this work looks at larger conceptual issues that transcend individual traditions and examines religious participation in environmental politics.

First Published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.