Description
An overview of the academic field examining the interaction between religion and ecology. This handbook explores new theologies born from confronting past attitudes towards nature and faiths complicity in the environmental crisis. The book is divided into three sections:
Part one: Explores traditional religious concepts of and attitudes towards nature and how these have been changed by the environmental crisis.
Part II: Looks at larger conceptual issues that transcend individual traditions.
Part III: Examines religious participation in environmental politics.