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The fall
2001 issue of the journal Daedalus
focuses on interdisciplinary issues regarding religion
and ecology that specifically related to issues raised
by global climate change. For more information about
the contents of this issue, please click on the title. For additional information on the journal, visit Daedalus
page at the Academy
of Arts and Sciences website.
Vol. 10, No. 1
Fall 1998
This issue of Earth Ethics contains summary essays on religion and ecology for ten of the worlds major religions. To obtain copies of this special issue of Earth Ethics for use in classrooms, conferences, or in religious or environmental communities, please contact:
Center for Respect of Life and Environment
2100 L. Street NW
Washington, DC 20037
Phone: 2027786133
Email: CRLE@aol.com
Ecotheology published peer-reviewed articles in the field from 1996-2006. It has now become the Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture (see below). Contents and orders for past issues of Eco-Theology are available at: http://www.equinoxpub.com/journals/mailing.asp?jref=6.
From 2007, The Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture is the new title for Ecotheology which for more than a decade has been the leading forum for constructive and normative studies on the relationship between religion and ecology.The journal's expanded goals are to explore the relationships among human beings, their diverse religions, and the earth’s living systems and to explore what constitutes an ethically appropriate relationship between our own species and the natural worlds we inhabit. This journal is the official journal of the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture.
The Spring 2007 issue of this journal was entitled "God's Green Earth: Creation, Faith, and Crisis." In the lead article for this issue, Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim conclude by saying, "A many-faceted alliance of religion and ecology along with a new global ethics is awakening around the planet...This is a new moment for the world's religions, and they have a vital role to play in the emergence of a more comprehensive environmental ethics. The urgency cannot be underestimated. Indeed, the flourishing of the Earth community may depend on it." Sobering, yet hopeful, words. Like exhortations resonate throughout this issue by ethicist Larry Rasmussen, to evangelical thinker Richard Cizik's ruminations in a "New Moral Awakening," to the appeal for grassroots activism by Sally Bingham in "Power, Light and Hope," we are told that planet Earth is in danger of spinning out of control—but that people of faith, uniquely positioned to bring together theory and practice, can help right the planet. Wangari Maathai, the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, reminds us that the planet belongs to all, and she poignantly recounts her grassroots Green Belt Movement's successful campaign to plant millions of trees in deforested sections of Africa. And Gus Speth, dean of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, speaks of "ethical duties" to rescue the ecosystem from ravages of the world economy, concluding with the affirmation, "We can save what is left."
This article entitled, Religions
of the World and Ecology: Discovering Common Ground
originally appeared in the May 1999 issue of Religious
Studies News.
Worldviews is
an international academic journal that addresses how
environmental issues are: influencing the worlds
major religions, giving rise to new forms of religious
expression, and affecting religious beliefs and cultural
backgrounds. These explorations give rise to further
inquiry into the manner in which these new findings
can influence peoples attitudes toward their environmental
contexts and the unique set of environmental challenges
they pose.
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