Protecting nature, saving creation : ecological conflicts, religious passions, and political quandaries /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Gagliardi, Pasquale, 1936- (Editor), Reijnen, Anne Marie, 1957- (Editor), Valentini, Philipp (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
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Table of Contents:
  • List of Figures and Table
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Contributors
  • Introduction / Pasquale Gagliardi
  • Ariadne and the Minotaur: A Thread Winding Through the Labyrinth (A Guide for Readers) / Anne Marie Reijnen
  • Part I: Proceedings of the Dialogue
  • Taking in the Real: Human Beings and the Earth (Opening Speech) / Angelo Scola, Patriarch of Venice
  • Ecological Conflicts and Religious Passions: a Patchwork of Beliefs
  • 'Nature' or 'Creation'? Difficult choices of the Church Fathers / Izabela Jurasz
  • 'Dame Nature cares nothing for us' / Simon Schaffer
  • Creation and Salvation / Bruno Latour
  • Harmonious Cosmos and the World of the Fall: Natural and Counter-natural in the Orthodox Christian Tradition / Elizabeth Theokritoff
  • Transforming the World, Contemplating the Cosmos: A Protestant Trajectory / Anne Marie Reijnen
  • Roman Catholic Contributions to Address the Current Ecological Crisis / Andrea Vicini
  • The 'cosmism' of Islam as a Possible Response to the Current Ecological Crisis / Eric Geoffroy
  • Economies and Ecologies of the Sacred in Zimbabwe / Matthew Engelke
  • Economic Development, Anthropomorphism, and the Principle of Reasonable Sufficiency / Eduardo Viveiros de Castro
  • Economic and Ecological Challenges: Is There a Role for Religion? / Ignazio Musu
  • Modernization as Liberation Theology / Ted Nordhaus and Michael Schellenberger
  • Part II: Afterthoughts
  • A Preliminary Notice / Pasquale Gagliardi
  • Afterthought: Of Maker's Knowledge / Simon Schaffer
  • Thoughts after the Dialogue... / Izabela Jurasz
  • Mobilizing Religions for the Ecological Crisis: An Urgent but Difficult Task / Ignazio Musu
  • Evolve: Modernization as the Road to Salvation / Michael Schellenberger and Ted Nordhaus
  • My Manifesto for the Dialogue / Bruno Latour
  • The Balance of Nature. What Can Be Learned from the History of the Earth and Life; George Theokritoff 7. Conclusive Remarks: Roman Catholic Commitment to Promoting Sustainability; Andrea Vicini 8. What is My Personal Outcome From this Dialogue? / Eric Geoffroy
  • Part of Creation Called to be Gods: Further Thoughts on the Place of Humans / Elizabeth Theokritoff
  • Defining the Commonplace as the Common Place: Cosmopolitanism and the Cross / Anne Marie Reijnen.