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Copyright
Dedication
About the Author
About the Editors
Letter to Reader
Acknowledgements
Explanation of Format (and call for peer review)
1.1 Newsflash: It's Not a Fight!
1.2 The Increasing Connection between Religion and Environment
1.3 A Timeline of Religious Environmental Developments
Bibliography
2.1 A Nature Touched by Human Hands, and a Thesis Pulled Out by the Roots
2.2 The Genesis of Eco-Theology
2.3 Human-Divine-Land Relations in Genesis 2
2.4 Filling the Earth Without Overdoing it
2.5 A Covenant with All Creatures
3.1 Embracing Human Nature in Relation to "Nature": A Gardener’s Ethic...and What are People For?
3.2 From the Garden to the Culture: More Food for Thought
3.3 Defining Our Core Concepts
Chapter 3 Discussion Questions
4.1 Preview
4.2 Returning to Terms
4.3 Comparing different perspectives
4.4 Similar Structures: Theory and Data in Science, Belief and Experience in Religion
4.5 What is knowledge?
4.6 A deeper dive into philosophy of science
Chapter 4 Discussion Questions
5.1 From Epistemology to Anthropology
5.2 Niebuhr’s Theological Anthropology: Finitude, Anxiety and Sin
5.3 A Buddhist Spiritual Anthropology: David Loy’s Healing Ecology
Chapter 5 Discussion Questions
6.1 Feminist Views and Nature
6.2 Discrimination and Socialization
6.3 Toxic Masculinity and Other Deadly Pollutants
6.4 Western Roots of Aggression
6.5 Cultural Transformation Toward More Balanced Power Dynamics
6.6 Iris Murdoch's Neo-Platonist Views of Reality, Illusion, Love, Humility, and Unselfing
Chapter 6 Discussion Questions
7.1 Wilderness and Creation Spirituality
7.2 Categories of Biblical Wilderness Theology
7.3 Values of Nature in Religious Wilderness Traditions
7.4 Applied Wilderness Spirituality: Inspiring National Parks and Environmentalism in America
Chapter 7 Discussion Questions
8.1 Laudato Si
8.2 Looking Forward
Chapter 8 Discussion Questions
9.1 Religion's Role in the Response to Climate Change
9.2 Faith and Skepticism: A Matter of Morality
Chapter 9 Discussion Questions
10.1 A Sampler: Religious Food-Environment Events
10.3 Kashrut and Halal as Food Ethics Systems
10.2 Animal Ethics
Chapter 10 Discussion Questions
11.1 Joseph Kupfer: Virtue and Happiness in Groundhog Day
11.2 Egoistic Hedonism, Meet Stanley Hauerwas
11.3 Religion and Phil
Chapter 11 Discussion Questions
12.1: Religion and Consumption in America
12.2: Religious perspectives on over-consumption in America
12.3: A Protestant Perspective: Life in All its Fullness: Christian Faith and the Dilemmas of Consumption, by Dr. Sondra Wheeler
12.4: A Catholic Perspective: The Good Life from a Catholic Perspective: The Problem of Consumption, by Msgr. Charles Murphy
12.5: A Jewish Perspective: “Sanctify Yourself Through What is Permitted to You”: Jewish Perspectives on Limiting Consumption, by Rabbi Eliezer Diamond
12.6: A Black Church Perspective: Consumption from an African American Perspective, by Thomas Hoyt, Jr.
12.7: An Evangelical Perspective: Issues of Consumption, American Culture and Evangelical Faith, by Tom Sine
12.8: The Ongoing Challenge of Consumption in America
Chapter 12 Discussion Questions
13.1: Justice as the Crucial Linking Dimension
13.2: Environmental Racism: Honoring Marginalized Voices
13.3: Moving Forward
Chapter 13 Discussion Questions
Manifest Destiny: The American Dream or an Ecological Crisis?
Georgia McLachlan
Reconnecting with Creation Through Regenerative Agriculture
Emerson Gifford
Groundhogs, Integral Ecology, and the Meaning of Life
Madeline Fox
Embracing Mystery in the Search for Truth
Natalie Pax
The Spirituality of Art: Finding God at the End of a Paintbrush
Anna Rose
The Meaning of Music
Logan Williams
Nature as the Compass of the Heart: A Poetic Autobiography
Liam Nigro
The Kitchen as a Classroom: Recipe to Unearth Life’s Simple Virtues
Addy Zenko
President Carter's Environmental Roots
Robert Riley
My Spiritual Journey: Dissolving Barriers Through a Conscious Connection with Nature
Liz Heneghan
Shifting Focus: Meditative Reflection on the Self and Connectedness
Justin Smith
The Consequences of the Ego and the Potential of Unselfing
Etain Brunner
Houseplants and the Balance of Life
Priscilla Howland
The Gardener’s Ethic: Countering Alienation from Nature
Chloe Donovan
Humans as Part of Nature: The Benefits of Time Spent Outdoors for Mental Health
Britton Jennings
An Unfamiliar Outlook: The Partnership of Ecofeminism and Daoism
Ashlyn Hu
Finding Waters: Spirit of Fly Fishing
Trevor Stotlar
An Insight into Wilderness Therapy
Hannah Dible
Pilgrim's Progress: A Spiritual Journey Along the Appalachian Trail
Will Babb
Near Death Experiences and their Implications for the Afterlife
MJ Levin
A Glimpse at the Reality Existing After Ours Through Near-Death Experiences
Mackenzie Shelton
The Intellectual Martian Society of "Stranger in a Strange Land" by Robert Heinlein
Ethan Ross
Technological Takeover or Technological Makeover?
Alana Bowser
An Existential Analysis of Environmental Values and the Other
Cael Jones
The Place of Pets in our Lives: Some Christian and Buddhist Perspectives
Briar Golladay
The Essential Presence of Faith-Based Organizations in Sustainable Community Development
Darby Pethrick
Origins of the Pro-Religion, Anti-Environmentalist Conservative Stereotype
Liz Vukovic
Understanding Consumerism and Happiness in an Ecological Crisis
Mia Craigo
Love and Environmentalism
Sophia Shannon
The Sacredness of Water
Hallie Stelzle
Glossary
Emerging Perspectives: Student Chapters
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