Caring for Creation: An Ecumenical Approach to the Environmental Crisis - Couverture souple

Oelschlaeger, Max

 
9780300066456: Caring for Creation: An Ecumenical Approach to the Environmental Crisis
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0300066457 ISBN 13 : 9780300066456
Editeur : Yale University Press, 1996

Synopsis

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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À propos de l?auteur

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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Éditeur
Yale University Press
Date d'édition
1996
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0300066457
ISBN 13 
9780300066456
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
296
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780300058178: Caring for Creation: An Ecumenical Approach to the Environmental Crisis

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0300058179 ISBN 13 :  9780300058178
Editeur : Yale University Press, 1994
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