ABSTRACT

Updated with nearly forty new selections to reflect the tremendous growth and transformation of scholarly, theological, and activist religious environmentalism, the second edition of This Sacred Earth is an unparalleled resource for the study of religion's complex relationship to the environment.

chapter |15 pages

Introduction

Religion in an Age of Environmental Crisis

chapter |5 pages

Introduction to the Second Edition

Good News/Bad News

part |138 pages

How Have Traditional Religions Viewed Nature?

chapter |5 pages

“The Creation”

chapter |4 pages

from The Tao Te Ching

part |194 pages

Ecotheology in an Age of Environmental Crisis

chapter |8 pages

“Basis for our Caring”

chapter |4 pages

“Evangelical Declaration on the Environment”

Created by the Evangelical Environmental Network and signed by hundreds of Evangelical Christian ministers, organizational leaders, theologians and lay members

part |87 pages

Ecotheology in an Age of Environmental Crisis

part |38 pages

Ecotheology in an Age of Environmental Crisis

part |182 pages

Ecology, Religion, and Society

chapter |4 pages

“Street Trees”

chapter |2 pages

“Statement on Global Warming and Climate Change by North Carolina's Religious and Spiritual Leaders”

Interfaith Global Climate Change Campaign, North Carolina Chapter