ABSTRACT
Sustainability is now key to international and national policy, manufacture and consumption. It is also central to many individuals who try to lead environmentally ethical lives. Historically, religion has been a significant part of many visions of sustainability. Pragmatically, the inclusion of religious values in conservation and development efforts has facilitated relationships between people with different value structures. Despite this, little attention has been paid to the interdependence of sustainability and religion, and no significant comparisons of religious and secular sustainability advocacy. Religion and Sustainability presents the first broad analysis of the spiritual dimensions of sustainability-oriented social movements. Exploring the similarities and differences between the conceptions of sustainability held by religious, interfaith and secular organizations, the book analyses how religious practice and discourse have impacted on political ideology and process.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |5 pages
Introduction and Reader's Guide
part I|34 pages
Defining Religion and Sustainability, and Why it Matters
chapter Chapter One|9 pages
The Stakes of Sustainability and its Religious Dimensions
chapter Chapter Two|14 pages
Defining the Terms: Religion and Sustainability
chapter Chapter Three|10 pages
Sustainability as a Contagious Meme
part II|63 pages
The Emergence and Development of Sustainability
chapter Chapter Four|11 pages
The Genesis and Globalization of Sustainability
chapter Chapter Five|24 pages
The Religious Dimensions of Sustainability at the Nexus of Civil Society and International Politics
chapter Chapter Six|26 pages
The Contributions of Natural and Social Sciences to the Religious Dimensions of Sustainability
part III|99 pages
The Ethnographic Data and Sustainability Cases