Hindu Ecological Liberation Theology

Rita D. Sherma is Core Doctoral Faculty and Founding Director of the Center for Dharma Studies at the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, USA, and previously held the Swami Vivekananda Visiting Professorship at the University of Southern California, USA. She is Co-Chair of Sustainability 360, an interdisciplinary initiative integrating religion, theology, and sustainability studies. Her publications include Religion and Sustainability: Interreligious Resources, Interdisciplinary Responses; Theology Without Walls: Founding Essays; Woman and Goddess in Hinduism: Reinterpretations and Re-envisionings; Hermeneutics and Hindu Thought: Towards a Fusion of Horizons; and the forthcoming Oxford Companion to Hindu Theology.

• A Note on Translation Acknowledgements Preface Introduction Part I. Methodological Background 1. The Ecological Crisis and the Task of Theology 2. Hermeneutics for a Theology of Ecology and Emancipation 3. Hindu Cosmologies of Divine ImmanencePart II. Shakta Theology 4. First Principles 5. The Philosophical Foundations of the Theology of Shakti 6. Divine Nature: The Mother of the Cosmos 7. Shakta Bhakti in the Modern Era: On Being and BecomingPart III. Epistemology and Ethics 8. Beauty, Divine Purpose, and Emotive Knowing 9. The Ethics of Aesthetic Knowing: Ecopsychology, Biophilia, and the Moral Imagination 10. Divine Becoming: Teleology and the Evolution of Consciousness 11. The Vision of Realization: Towards an Integrated Teleological Theoethics 12. Emancipatory Ethics & Shakta Liberation TheologyBibliographyIndex