LEADER 04881nam 22006974a 450 001 9910465537803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-19-988422-6 010 $a0-19-539620-0 010 $a1-282-32825-5 010 $a9786612328251 010 $a0-19-973113-6 035 $a(CKB)2560000000300323 035 $a(EBL)472070 035 $a(OCoLC)436041419 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001145480 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12455398 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001145480 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11122651 035 $a(PQKB)11067353 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000165674 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11156363 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000165674 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10142155 035 $a(PQKB)11337305 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000024364 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC472070 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL472070 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10335208 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000300323 100 $a20050810d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 12$aA greener faith$b[electronic resource] $ereligious environmentalism and our planet's future /$fRoger S. Gottlieb 210 $aOxford ;$aNew York $cOxford University Press$dc2006 215 $a1 online resource (303 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-19-517648-0 311 $a0-19-985084-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 245-279) and index. 327 $aReligion and the human meaning of environmental crisis -- Religion, nature, environment -- Religious environmentalism and secular society -- Sustainable religion -- Religious environmentalism in action -- Environmentalism as spirituality -- Opening the heart : the ritual life of religious environmentalism -- Five faces of religious environmentalism -- Obstacles, prospects, hope. 330 $aIn 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. Theologians are recovering nature-honoring elements of traditional religions and forging bold new theologies connecting devotion to God and spiritual truth with love for God's creation and care for the Earth. And religious people throughout the world are transforming the meaning of their faiths in the face of the environmental crisis. The successes and significance of religious environmentalism are manifest in statements by leaders of virtually all the world's religions, in new and "green" prayers and rituals, and in sophisticated criticisms of modern society's economy, politics, and culture. From the Evangelical Environmental Network to the Buddhist prime minister of Mongolia, the National Council of Churches to tree-planting campaigns in Zimbabwe, religious environmentalism has become a powerful component of the world environmental movement. 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 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. 606 $aHuman ecology$xReligious aspects$xChristianity 606 $aEnvironmentalism$xReligious aspects$xChristianity 606 $aChristian stewardship 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aHuman ecology$xReligious aspects$xChristianity. 615 0$aEnvironmentalism$xReligious aspects$xChristianity. 615 0$aChristian stewardship. 676 $a201/.77 700 $aGottlieb$b Roger S$0880362 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910465537803321 996 $aA greener faith$91978734 997 $aUNINA