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A Greener Faith - Religious Environmentalism and Our Planet's Future (Paperback)
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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 ways
of connecting care for the earth with justice for human beings. He
also shows how 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 appropriate way to voice its dream of a sustainable and
just world. Equally important, it helps develop a world-making
political agenda that far exceeds interest group politics 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.
Gottlieb deftly analyzes the growing synthesis of the movement's
religious, social, and political aspects, as well as the challenges
it faces in consumerism, fundamentalism, and globalization. Highly
engaging and passionately argued, this book is an indispensable
resource for people of faith, environmentalists, scholars, and
anyone who is concerned about our planet's future.
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