Religious Environmental Activism in Asia: Case Studies in Spiritual Ecology
Throughout the world religious organizations are exploring and implementing into action ideas about the relevance of religion and spirituality in dealing with a growing multitude of environmental issues and problems. Religion and spirituality have the potential to be extremely influential for the be...
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| description | Throughout the world religious organizations are exploring and implementing into action ideas about the relevance of religion and spirituality in dealing with a growing multitude of environmental issues and problems. Religion and spirituality have the potential to be extremely influential for the better at many levels and in many ways through their intellectual, emotional, and activist components. This collection focuses on providing a set of captivating essays on the specifics of concrete cases of environmental activism involving most of the main Asian religions from several countries. Particular case studies are drawn from the religions of Animism, Buddhism, Daoism, Hinduism, Islam, and Jainism. They are from the countries of Bhutan, China, India, Indonesia, and Thailand. Thereby this set of case studies offers a very substantial and rich sampling of religious environmental activism in Asia. They are grounded in years of original field research on the subjects covered. Collectively these case studies reveal a fascinating and significant movement of environmental initiatives in engaged practical spiritual ecology in Asia. Accordingly, this collection should be of special interest to a diversity of scientists, academics, instructors, and students as well as communities and leaders from a wide variety of religions, environmentalism, and conservation. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-581552024-04-08T20:11:27Z Religious Environmental Activism in Asia: Case Studies in Spiritual Ecology Sponsel, Leslie E. BL1-50 n/a political ecology domestic waste Ecological Civilization new religious movements indigenous Ganga Buddhist agriculture Xishuangbanna Taoism animate landscapes Hinduism sustainability ethnic minorities India deforestation sustainable development conservation geopiety/geopolity Islam rural development waste reduction mobilizations religious environmental activism women re-use Anuvrat Movement common property regimes solid waste management Daoism rights of nature environmentalism Jainism eco-conscious living Thailand vital landscapes discard studies ecology ecological vow-taking Buddhism civilizing projects China anthropocene reincarnation rivers Vajrayana Buddhism Bhutan biodiversity spiritual ecology waste transformation fatwa Yamuna ecological civilization materiality watersheds sacred natural sites bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HR Religion & beliefs thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs Throughout the world religious organizations are exploring and implementing into action ideas about the relevance of religion and spirituality in dealing with a growing multitude of environmental issues and problems. Religion and spirituality have the potential to be extremely influential for the better at many levels and in many ways through their intellectual, emotional, and activist components. This collection focuses on providing a set of captivating essays on the specifics of concrete cases of environmental activism involving most of the main Asian religions from several countries. Particular case studies are drawn from the religions of Animism, Buddhism, Daoism, Hinduism, Islam, and Jainism. They are from the countries of Bhutan, China, India, Indonesia, and Thailand. Thereby this set of case studies offers a very substantial and rich sampling of religious environmental activism in Asia. They are grounded in years of original field research on the subjects covered. Collectively these case studies reveal a fascinating and significant movement of environmental initiatives in engaged practical spiritual ecology in Asia. Accordingly, this collection should be of special interest to a diversity of scientists, academics, instructors, and students as well as communities and leaders from a wide variety of religions, environmentalism, and conservation. 2021-02-12T01:46:44Z 2021-02-12T01:46:44Z 2020-06-09 16:38:57 2020 book 45994 9783039286478 9783039286461 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/58155 eng application/octet-stream Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/2169 MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 10.3390/books978-3-03928-647-8 10.3390/books978-3-03928-647-8 46cabcaa-dd94-4bfe-87b4-55023c1b36d0 9783039286478 9783039286461 194 open access |
| spellingShingle | BL1-50 n/a political ecology domestic waste Ecological Civilization new religious movements indigenous Ganga Buddhist agriculture Xishuangbanna Taoism animate landscapes Hinduism sustainability ethnic minorities India deforestation sustainable development conservation geopiety/geopolity Islam rural development waste reduction mobilizations religious environmental activism women re-use Anuvrat Movement common property regimes solid waste management Daoism rights of nature environmentalism Jainism eco-conscious living Thailand vital landscapes discard studies ecology ecological vow-taking Buddhism civilizing projects China anthropocene reincarnation rivers Vajrayana Buddhism Bhutan biodiversity spiritual ecology waste transformation fatwa Yamuna ecological civilization materiality watersheds sacred natural sites bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HR Religion & beliefs thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs Sponsel, Leslie E. Religious Environmental Activism in Asia: Case Studies in Spiritual Ecology |
| title | Religious Environmental Activism in Asia: Case Studies in Spiritual Ecology |
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| title_short | Religious Environmental Activism in Asia: Case Studies in Spiritual Ecology |
| title_sort | religious environmental activism in asia case studies in spiritual ecology |
| topic | BL1-50 n/a political ecology domestic waste Ecological Civilization new religious movements indigenous Ganga Buddhist agriculture Xishuangbanna Taoism animate landscapes Hinduism sustainability ethnic minorities India deforestation sustainable development conservation geopiety/geopolity Islam rural development waste reduction mobilizations religious environmental activism women re-use Anuvrat Movement common property regimes solid waste management Daoism rights of nature environmentalism Jainism eco-conscious living Thailand vital landscapes discard studies ecology ecological vow-taking Buddhism civilizing projects China anthropocene reincarnation rivers Vajrayana Buddhism Bhutan biodiversity spiritual ecology waste transformation fatwa Yamuna ecological civilization materiality watersheds sacred natural sites bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HR Religion & beliefs thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs |
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