CARING FOR CREATION: An Ecumenical Approach to the Environmental Crisis - Softcover

Oelschlaeger, Max

 
9780300066456: CARING FOR CREATION: An Ecumenical Approach to the Environmental Crisis
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0300066457 ISBN 13: 9780300066456
Verlag: Yale University Press, 1996

Inhaltsangabe

Many environmentalists believe that religion has been a major contributor to our ecological crisis, for Judeo-Christians have been taught that they have dominion over the earth and so do not consider themselves part of a biotic community. In this book a philosopher of environmental ethics acknowledges that religion may contribute to environmental problems but argues that religion can also play an important role in solving these problems--that religion can provide an ethical context that will help people to become sensitive to the environment and to elect leaders who are genuinely responsive to the ecological crisis.

Examining a broad range of Western religious traditions--from conservative Christianity and orthodox Judaism to Goddess feminism and nature religion--Max Oelschlaeger provides a sociolinguistic analysis of their creation stories and finds environmentally positive aspects in each of them. He asserts that religious discourse in the public arena can offer a way for such environmental issues as biodiversity, pollution, and population to be addressed outside the realm of special-interest politics. And he urges local churches to make "caring for creation" a theme for worship in their services; the majority of Americans, says Oelschlaeger, will discover an environmental ethic only through their religious faith.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Max Oelschlaeger, professor of philosophy and religious studies at the University of North Texas, is also the author of the prizewinning book The Idea of Wilderness: From Prehistory to the Age of Ecology.

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This timely book argues that religion has an indispensable role to play in solving the ecological crisis. Examining a broad range of Western religious traditions from conservative Christianity to Goddess feminism, Max Oelschlaeger shows that religion can provide an ethical context that will help people become sensitive to the environment and elect leaders who are genuinely responsive to environmental problems.

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Verlag
Yale University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1996
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0300066457
ISBN 13 
9780300066456
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
296
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