A greener faith: religious environmentalism and our planet's future

In a time of darkening environmental prospects, frightening religious fundamentalism, and moribund liberalism, the remarkable and historically unprecedented rise of religious environmentalism is a profound source of hope. In A Greener Faith , Roger S. Gottlieb chronicles the promises of this critically important movement, illuminating its principal ideas, leading personalities, and waysof connecting care for the earth with justice for human beings. He also showshow religious environmentalism breaks the customary boundaries of "religious issues" in political life. Asserting that environmental degradation is sacrilegious, sinful, and an offense against God catapults religions directly into questions of social policy, economic and moral priorities, and the overall direction of secular society. Gottlieb contends that a spiritual perspective applied to the Earth provides the environmental movement with a uniquely appropriateway to voice its dream of a sustainable and just world. Equally important, ithelps develop a world-making political agenda that far exceeds interest grouppolitics applied to forests and toxic incinerators. Rather, religious environmentalism offers an all-inclusive vision of what human beings are and how we should treat each other and the rest of life.1

• ISBN: 978-0-19-539620-1
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 312
• Fecha Publicación: 01/08/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés