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In this section we will explore the relationship between issues of the spirit and the environment.  We will provide thinking from spiritual leaders on the environment and will include articles on efforts by religious groups to protect the planet. 

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Bibliography on Religion and the Environment

Adams, Carol J., ed. Ecofeminism and the Sacred. New York: Continuum, 1993. The Biodiversity Project. Building Partnerships with the Faith Community: A Resource Guide for Environmental Groups. Madison, WI: The Project, 2001.

Callicott, J. Baird. Earth's Insights: A Survey of Ecological Ethics from the Mediterranean Basin to the Australian Outback. Berkeley CA: University of California Press, 1997.

Carroll, John E. Sustainability and Spirituality. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2004.

Carroll, John E., Paul Brockelman, and Mary Westfall, eds. The Greening of Faith: God, The Environment and the Good Life. Forward by Bill McKibben. Hanover NY: Univ. Press of New England, 1997.

Carroll, John E. and Keith Warner. Ecology & Religion: Scientists Speak. Franciscan Press, 1998.

Chapman, Audrey R., Rodney L. Petersen, Barbara Smith-Moran, eds. Consumption, Population, and Sustainability: Perspectives from Science and Religion. Island Press, 1999.

Coates, Peter. Nature: Western Attitudes Since Ancient Times. University of California Press. 1998.

Cohen, Jeremy. “ Be Fertile and Increase, Fill the Earth and Master it”: The Ancient and Medieval Career of a Biblical Text. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1989.

Cooper, David E., and Joy A. Palmer, eds. Spirit of the Environment: Religion, Value and Environmental Concern. New York: Routledge, 1998.

Coward, Harold, ed., Population, Consumption, and the Environment: Religious and Secular Responses. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1995.

Eaton, Heather. Introducing Ecofeminist Theologies. New York: T & T Clark International, 2005.

Engel, J. Ronald and Joan Gibb Engel, eds. Ethics of Environment and Development: Global Challenge, International Response. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1990.

Foltz, Richard C., ed. Worldviews, Religion, and the Environment : A Global Anthology. Belmont, CA: Thomson/Wadsworth, 2003.

Fowler, Robert Booth. The Greening of Protestant Thought. Chapel Hill, NC: UNC Press, 1995.

Gardner, Gary. Invoking the Spirit: Religion and Spirituality in the Quest for a Sustainable World. Worldwatch Paper 164. Washington, DC: Worldwatch Institute, 2002.

Glacken, Clarence J. Traces on the Rhodian Shore: Nature and Culture in Western Thought from Ancient Times to the End of the Eighteenth Century. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1967.

Gottlieb, Roger, ed. This Sacred Earth: Religion, Nature, Environment. 2nd ed. New York: Routledge, 2003.

Granberg-Michaelson, Wesley, ed. Tending the Garden: Essays on the Gospel and the Earth. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 1987.

Grant, Robert M. Early Christians and Animals. New York: Routledge, 1999.

Green, Elizabeth, and Mary Grey, eds. TEcofeminism and Theology. Kampen, the Netherlands: Kok Pharos, 1994.

Habel, Norman, ed. Readings from the Perspective of Earth. Cleveland, OH: The Pilgrim Press, 2000.

Habel, Norman and Shirley Wurst, eds. The Earth Story in Genesis. Cleveland: Pilgrim Press, 2000.

Hallman, David G., ed. Ecotheology: Voices from South and North. Geneva and Maryknoll, NY: WCC Publications; Orbis Books, 1994.

Hamilton, Lawrence S., Ethics, Religion and Biodiversity: Relations between Conservation and Cultural Values. Cambridge, England: The White Horse Press, 1993.

Hargrove, Eugene C., ed. Religion and Environmental Crisis. Athens, GA: University of Georgia, 1986.

Harrison, Peter. The Bible, Protestantism, and the Rise of Natural Science. Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Hessel, Dieter T. and Rosemary Radford Ruether, eds. Christianity and Ecology: Seeking the Well-Being of Earth and Humans. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Center for the Study of World Religions, 2000.

Hughes, J. Donald. Ecology in Ancient Civilizations. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1975.

Joranson, Philip N. ed. Ken Butigan, ed. Cry of the Environment: Rebuilding the Christian Creation Tradition. With a foreword by Ian Barbour. Santa Fe, NM: Bear and Company, 1984.

Kellert, Stephen R. and Timothy J. Farnham, eds. The Good in Nature and Humanity: Connecting Science Religion and Spirituality with the Natural World. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2002.

Kinsley, David R. Ecology and Religion: Ecological Spirituality in Cross-Cultural Perspective. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1994.

Krueger, Fred, ed. A Cloud of Witnesses: The Deep Ecological Legacy of Christianity. Santa Rosa, CA: Religious Campaign for Forest Conservation, 2002.

Lane, Belden C. The Solace of Fierce Landscapes: Exploring Desert & Mountain Spirituality. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Linzey, Andrew, and Tom Regan, eds. Animals and Christianity: A Book of Readings. London: SPCK, 1989.

Linzey, Andrew, and Dorothy Yamamoto, eds. Animals on the Agenda: Questions About Animals for Theology and Ethics. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998.

Lonning, Per. Creation: An Ecumenical Challenge? Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1989.

Lovejoy, Arthur Oncken. The Great Chain of Being: A Study of the History of an Idea. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1972 (1936).

McCagney, Nancy. Religion and Ecology. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 1999.

MacKinnon, M. H., and M. McIntyre, eds. Readings in Ecology and Feminist Theology. Kansas City: Sheed & Ward, 1995.

Merchant, Carolyn. The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology and the Scientific Revolution. With a new preface. New York: HarperSanFrancisco, 1990 (1980).

Nasr, Seyyed Hosein. Religion and the Order of Nature. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Oelschlaeger, Max. Caring for Creation: An Ecumenical Approach to the Environmental Crisis. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1996.

Palmer, Martin and Victoria Finlay. Faith in Conservation: New Approaches to Religions and the Environment. World Bank Directions in Development. Washington, DC: World Bank, 2003.

Schut, Michael, ed. Food and Faith: Justice, Joy and Daily Bread. Denver, CO: Living the Good News, 2002.

Simkins, Ronald A. Creator and Creation: Nature in the Worldview of Ancient Israel. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 1994.

Slattery, P. Caretakers of Creation: Farmers Reflect on Their Faith and Work. Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1991.

Spring, David, and Eileen Spring, eds. Religion and Ecology in History. New York: Harper and Row, 1974.

Stoll, Mark. Protestantism, Capitalism, and Nature in America. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1997.

Tanner, R. E. S. Religion and the Environment. New York: Palgrave, 2002.

Thomas, Keith. Man and the Natural World: A History of the Modern Sensibility. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Schut, Michael, ed. Food and Faith: Justice, Joy and Daily Bread. Denver, CO: Living the Good News, 2002.

Simkins, Ronald A. Creator and Creation: Nature in the Worldview of Ancient Israel. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 1994.

Slattery, P. Caretakers of Creation: Farmers Reflect on Their Faith and Work. Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1991.

Spring, David, and Eileen Spring, eds. Religion and Ecology in History. New York: Harper and Row, 1974.

Stoll, Mark. Protestantism, Capitalism, and Nature in America. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1997.

Tanner, R. E. S. Religion and the Environment. New York: Palgrave, 2002.

Thomas, Keith. Man and the Natural World: A History of the Modern Sensibility. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Pinches, Charles, ed. Jay B. McDaniel, ed. Good News for Animals? Christian Approaches to Animal Well Being. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1993.

Posey, Darrell, ed. Cultural & Spiritual Values of Biodiversity. London: Intermediate Technologies, and Nairobi: United Nations Environment Programme, 1999.

Robb, Carol S., and Carl J. Casebolt, eds. Covenant for a New Creation: Ethics, Religion and Public Policy. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1991.

Rockefeller, Steven C. and John C. Elder, eds. Spirit and Nature: Why the Environment is a Religious Issue. Boston: Beacon Press, 1992.

Ruether, Rosemary Radford, ed. Women Healing Earth: Third World Women on Ecology, Feminism and Religion. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1996.

Santmire, H. Paul. The Travail of Nature: The Ambiguous Ecological Promise of Christian Theology. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 1985.

Schreiner, Susan E. The Theater of His Glory, Nature and the Natural Order in the Thought of John Calvin. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2001 (1991).

Schut, Michael, ed. Food and Faith: Justice, Joy and Daily Bread. Denver, CO: Living the Good News, 2002.

Simkins, Ronald A. Creator and Creation: Nature in the Worldview of Ancient Israel. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 1994.

Slattery, P. Caretakers of Creation: Farmers Reflect on Their Faith and Work. Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1991.

Spring, David, and Eileen Spring, eds. Religion and Ecology in History. New York: Harper and Row, 1974.

Stoll, Mark. Protestantism, Capitalism, and Nature in America. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1997.

Tanner, R. E. S. Religion and the Environment. New York: Palgrave, 2002.

Thomas, Keith. Man and the Natural World: A History of the Modern Sensibility. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Torrance, Robert M., ed. Encompassing Nature: Nature & Culture from Ancient Times to the Modern World. Washington, DC: Counterpoint. 1999.

Tucker, Mary Evelyn. Worldly Wonder: Religions Enter Their Ecological Phase. With a commentary by Judith A. Berling. Chicago: Open Court, 2003.

Tucker, Mary Evelyn and John A. Grimm, eds. Worldviews and Ecology: Religion, Philosophy and the Environment. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Press, 1994.

White, Lynn Jr. "The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis." Science 155 (10 March 1967): 1203-04.

Williams, George H. "Christian Attitudes Toward Nature." [Part 1]. Christian Scholar's Review 2 (Fall 1971): 3 35.

Wybrow, Cameron. The Bible, Baconianism, and Mastery Over Nature: The Old Testament and Its Modern Misreading. New York: Peter Lang, 1991.

 

Spiritual Quotes
But the land you are crossing the Jordan to take possession of is a land of mountains and valleys that drinks rain from heaven.  It is a land the Lord your God cares for; the eyes of the Lord your God are continually on it, from the beginning of the year to its end. (Deuteronomy 11:10-12)
Viewpoints

I don't think God is going to ask us how he created the earth, but he will ask us what we did with what he created. -- Reverend Rich Cizik, National Association of Evangelicals

Viewpoints

Our first response, spiritually and emotionally, must be one of humility, brokenness, and repentance.  We must repent for the way in which we have all contributed to the environmental problems - even without our knowing it.  And we must enter into this area with humility and brokenness through prayer.  Our brokenness gives God the opportunity to make us whole again. --Tri Robinson in Saving Gods Green Earth

 
 

 

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