02610nam a2200313 a 450000100070000000500170000700800410002401000160006501900230008102000280010402000150013203500170014703500120016404000230017605000230019908200180022208200180024010000230025824500990028126000480038030000240042850400640045250503090051652006290082552007180145465000520217265000470222498400250227140923920001220203144.0930803s1994 ctu 001 0 eng  a 930232151 a10373284zTVA-5434 a0300058179 (alk. paper) a0300058179 9000010373284 92203139 aTOCbengcTOCdTOC 0aBT695.5b.O34 199400a261.8/36222000a261.8/3622211 aOelschlaeger, Max.10aCaring for creation :ban ecumenical approach to the environmental crisis /cMax Oelschlaeger. aNew Haven :bYale University Press,cc1994. ax, 285 p. ;c25 cm. aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 255-273) and index.0 a1. 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. aMany 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.8 aExamining 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. 0aHuman ecologyxReligious aspectsxChristianity. 0aHuman ecologyxReligious aspectsxJudaism. aANLcYY 261.8362 O28