Wiley Blackwell Companion to Religion and Ecology

John Hart is Professor of Christian Ethics, Boston University. His books include Cosmic Commons: Spirit, Science, and Space (2013), Sacramental Commons: Christian Ecological Ethics (2006), and The Spirit of the Earth (1984). He has lectured globally on socioecological ethics and religion-ecology in eight countries on five continents.

• List of Contributors ix Foreword xviiBartholomew I, Ecumenical PatriarchPreface xixAcknowledgments xxxiI. Religions and Ecological Consciousness 1Ecology Perspectives from Diverse Religious and Spiritual Traditions1 God is Absolute Reality and All Creation His Tajallı̄ (Theophany) 3Seyyed Hossein Nasr2 Swaraj: From Chipko to Navdanya 12Vandana Shiva3 Eco‐Kabbalah: Holism and Mysticism in Earth‐Centered Judaism 20David Mevorach Seidenberg4 Laudato Sí in the Earth Commons—Integral Ecology and Socioecological Ethics 37John Hart5 神の大経綸: The Great Divine Plan: Kotama Okada’s Vision for Spiritual Civilization in the Twenty‐First Century 54Kōō Okada6 In the Time of the Sacred Places 71Winona LaDuke7 Eco‐Theology in the African Diaspora 85Dianne D. Glave8 Buddhist Interdependence and the Elemental Life 90Christopher Key Chapple9 Theodao: Integrating Ecological Consciousness in Daoism, Confucianism, and Christian Theology 104Heup Young KimII. Care for the Earth and Life 115Traditions’ Teachings in Socioecological Contexts10 Science, Ecology, and Christian Theology 117John F. Haught11 Exploring Environmental Ethics in Islam: Insights from the Qur’an and the Practice of Prophet Muhammad 130Fazlun M. Khalid12 Science and Religion: Conflict or Concert? 146Francisco J. Ayala13 The Serpent in Eden and in Africa: Religions and Ecology 163Kapya J. Kaoma14 Jewish Environmental Ethics: The Imperative of Responsibility 179Hava Tirosh‐Samuelson15 Ecowomanism and Ecological Reparations 195Melanie L. Harris16 From Climate Debt to Climate Justice: God’s Love Embodied in Garden Earth 203Cynthia Moe‐Lobeda17 The Vision of St. Maximus the Confessor: That Creation May All Be One 220Elizabeth TheokritoffIII. Ecological Commitment 237Contextualization of Traditions in Diverse Contexts, Cultures, and Circumstances18 From Social Justice to Creation Justice in the Anthropocene 239Larry L. Rasmussen19 Christianity, Ecofeminism, and Transformation 256Heather Eaton20 The Face of God in the World: Insights from the Orthodox Christian Tradition 273John Chryssavgis21 Climate Change and Christian Ethics 286Michael S. Northcott22 Islamic Environmental Teachings: Compatible with Ecofeminism? 301Nawal H. Ammar and Allison Gray23 The Divine Environment (al‐Muhit) and the Body of God: Seyyed Hossein Nasr and Sallie McFague Resacralize Nature 315Ian S. Mevorach24 Chondogyo and a Sacramental Commons: Korean Indigenous Religion and Christianity on Common Ground 331Yongbum Park25 The Religious Politics of Scientific Doubt: Evangelical Christians and Environmentalism in the United States 348Myrna Perez Sheldon and Naomi Oreskes26 The Covenant of Reciprocity 368Robin Wall KimmererIV. Visions for the Present and Future Earth 383The Earth Transformed: Altered Consciousness and Conduct on Common Ground27 Prayer as if Earth Really Matters 385Arthur Waskow28 The Evolutionary and Ecological Perspectives of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and Thomas Berry 394Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim29 Earth as Community Garden: The Bounty, Healing, and Justice of Holy Permaculture 410Tallessyn Zawn Grenfell‐Lee30 Theo‐Forming Earth Community: Meaning‐Full Creations 427Whitney A. Bauman31 Religious Environmentalism and Environmental Activism 439Roger S. Gottlieb32 Global Heating, Pope Francis, and the Promise of Laudato Sí 457Bill McKibben33 Respect for Mother Earth: Original Instructions and Indigenous Traditional Knowledge 460Tom B. K. Goldtooth34 Common Commons: Social and Sacred Space 471John Hart35 A New Partzuf for a New Paradigm: Living Earth—An Icon for Our Age 488Zalman Shachter Shalomi and in Conversation with John HartAfterword 505John B. Cobb, Jr.Index 510