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A Greener Faith: Religious Environmentalism and Our Planet's Future
A Greener Faith: Religious Environmentalism and Our Planet's Future
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In a time of darkening environmental prospects, frightening religious fundamentalism, and moribund liberalism, the remarkable and historically unprecedented rise of religious environmentalism is a profound source of hope. In A Greener Faith, Roger S. Gottlieb chronicles the promises of this
critically important movement, illuminating its principal ideas, leading personalities, and ways of connecting care for the earth with justice for human beings. He also shows how religious environmentalism breaks the customary boundaries of religious issues in political life. Asserting that
environmental degradation is sacrilegious, sinful, and an offense against God catapults religions directly into questions of social policy, economic and moral priorities, and the overall direction of secular society. Gottlieb contends that a spiritual perspective applied to the Earth provides the
environmental movement with a uniquely appropriate way to voice its dream of a sustainable and just world. Equally important, it helps develop a world-making political agenda that far exceeds interest group politics applied to forests and toxic incinerators. Rather, religious environmentalism offers
an all-inclusive vision of what human beings are and how we should treat each other and the rest of life. Gottlieb deftly analyzes the growing synthesis of the movement's religious, social, and political aspects, as well as the challenges it faces in consumerism, fundamentalism, and globalization. Highly engaging and passionately argued, this book is an indispensable resource for people of faith,
environmentalists, scholars, and anyone who is concerned about our planet's future.
Author: Roger S. Gottlieb
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 09/01/2009
Pages: 312
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780195396201
critically important movement, illuminating its principal ideas, leading personalities, and ways of connecting care for the earth with justice for human beings. He also shows how religious environmentalism breaks the customary boundaries of religious issues in political life. Asserting that
environmental degradation is sacrilegious, sinful, and an offense against God catapults religions directly into questions of social policy, economic and moral priorities, and the overall direction of secular society. Gottlieb contends that a spiritual perspective applied to the Earth provides the
environmental movement with a uniquely appropriate way to voice its dream of a sustainable and just world. Equally important, it helps develop a world-making political agenda that far exceeds interest group politics applied to forests and toxic incinerators. Rather, religious environmentalism offers
an all-inclusive vision of what human beings are and how we should treat each other and the rest of life. Gottlieb deftly analyzes the growing synthesis of the movement's religious, social, and political aspects, as well as the challenges it faces in consumerism, fundamentalism, and globalization. Highly engaging and passionately argued, this book is an indispensable resource for people of faith,
environmentalists, scholars, and anyone who is concerned about our planet's future.
Author: Roger S. Gottlieb
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 09/01/2009
Pages: 312
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780195396201
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