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Caring for creation : an ecumenical approach to the environmental crisis / Max Oelschlaeger
Bib ID 409239
Format BookBook
Author
Oelschlaeger, Max
 
Description New Haven : Yale University Press, c1994 
x, 285 p. ; 25 cm. 
ISBN 0300058179 (alk. paper)  0300058179 
Summary

Many environmentalists believe that religion has been a major contributor to our ecological crisis, for Judeo-Christians have been taught that they have dominion over the earth and so do not consider themselves part of a biotic community. In this book a philosopher of environmental ethics acknowledges that religion may contribute to environmental problems but argues that religion can also play an important role in solving these problems - that religion can provide an ethical context that will help people to become sensitive to the environment and to elect leaders who are genuinely responsive to the ecological crisis.

Examining a broad range of Western religious traditions - from conservative Christianity and orthodox Judaism to Goddess feminism and nature religion - Max Oelschlager provides a sociolinguistic analysis of their creation stories and finds environmentally positive aspects in each of them. He asserts that religious discourse in the public arena can offer a way for such environmental issues as biodiversity, pollution, and population to be addressed outside the realm of special-interest politics. And he urges local churches to make "caring for creation" a theme for worship in their services; the majority of Americans, says Oelschlager, will discover an environmental ethic only through their religious faith.

Full contents
  • 1. Religion in the Context of Ecocrisis
  • 2. Religion and the Politics of Environmentalism
  • 3. The Sacred Canopy: Religion as Legitimating Narrative
  • 4. Caring for Creation: The Spectrum of Belief
  • 5. The Role of the Church
  • 6. Redescribing Religious Narrative: The Significance of Sacred Story.
 
Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-273) and index.

Subjects Human ecology - Religious aspects - Christianity.  |  Human ecology - Religious aspects - Judaism.

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