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Book Review
| The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Ecology. Edited by Roger S. Gottlieb. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. xv + 662 pp. Bibliography and index. Cloth $65.00.
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| In this contribution to the Oxford Handbook series, Roger Gottlieb, professor of philosophy at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and author of several monographs on religion, philosophy, and environment, including recently A Greener Faith (2006), assembled a constellation of twenty-five contributors many of whom have devoted long careers to the study of the relationship between religion and environment. The expertise and variety of perspective represented by these contributors makes this a premier resource for scholars interested in environmental philosophy, comparative religions, and ecological thought as well as practitioners interested in finding common ground between environmentalism and religion. |
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The Handbook is divided into three sections. The first explores the ecological sensibilities of a variety of the major world religious traditions including Judaism, major varieties of Christianity (Catholicism, Orthodoxy, and Reformed Protestantism), Jainism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Daoism, Confucianism, and African spirituality through largely through the lens of theology/philosophy. The second explores a set of topics (demography, genetic engineering, ecofeminism, science and faith, and nature writing) that illustrate the ways that putting religion and ecology together create tensions for some and deeper meaning for others. The third section illustrates ways in which particular communities of faith have engaged on behalf of environmental concerns. |
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