ECOLOGICAL UNDERSTANDING

By L. LIZAS

CONTENTS INTRODUCTION OUR JOURNEY INTO RELIGION AND ECOLOGY 1 PROBLEMS AND PROMISE OF RELIGIONS: LIMITING AND LIBERATING 2 THE NATURE OF RELIGIOUS ECOLOGY: ORIENTING, GROUNDING, NURTURING, TRANSFORMING 3 RELIGIOUS ECOLOGY AND VIEWS OF NATURE IN THE WEST 4 ECOLOGY, CONSERVATION, AND ETHICS 5 EMERGENCE OF THE FIELD OF RELIGION AND ECOLOGY 6 CHRISTIANITY AS ORIENTING TO THE COSMOS 7 CONFUCIANISM AS GROUNDING IN COMMUNITY 8 INDIGENOUS TRADITIONS AND THE NURTURING POWERS OF NATURE 9 HINDUISM AND THE TRANSFORMING AFFECT OF DEVOTION 10 BUILDING ON INTERRELIGIOUS DIALOGUE: TOWARD A GLOBAL ETHICS EPILOGUE CHALLENGES AHEAD: CREATING ECOLOGICAL CULTURES