Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction: Religion in an Age of Environmental Crisis Introduction to the Second Edition: Good News/Bad News Part I: The Moment of Seeing: Selections from Nature Writers Linking Nature and Spirit 1.1 From the Halibun: (trans. David Barnhill): Matshuo Basho 1.2 On the Lure of the Country: William Hazlitt 1.3 From Walking: Henry David Thoreau 1.4 Nature: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1.5 From Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf: John Muir 1.6 From A Sand County Almanac: Aldo Leopold 1.7 Nature: Luther Standing Bear 1.8 Seeing the Light: Robert Finch 1.9 The Kill Hole: Linda Hogan Part II: How Have Traditional Religions Viewed Nature? 2.1 The Creation: Fanetorens (Ray Fadden) 2.2 Death and the Rebirth of the Universe (Hindu): Joseph L. Henderson and Maude Oaks 2.3 The Parade of Ants (Hindu): Joseph L. Henderson and Maude Oaks 2.4 The Five Suns (Aztec): Joseph L. Henderson and Maude Oaks 2.5 Persephone:Joseph L. Henderson and Maude Oaks 2.6 From Forests: the Shadow of Civilization: Robert Pogue Harrison 2.7 From the Tao Te Ching: Lao Tzu 2.8 Selections: Hebrew Bible 2.9 Selections: Qur'an 2.10 Jews, Jewish Texts, and Nature: A Brief History: Daniel Swartz 2.11 From Legends of the Bible: Louis Ginzberg 2.12 From In and of the World: Christian Theological Anthropology and Environmental Ethics: Anna Peterson 2.13 Traditional Native Hawaiian Environmental Philosophy: Michael Kioni Dudley 2.14 Early Buddhist Views on Nature: Chatsumarn Kabilisingh 2.15 Illuminating Darkness: The Monk-Cave-Bat-Ecosystem Complex in Thailand: Leslie E. Sponsel and Poranee Matadcha-Sponsel 2.16 Satyagraha for Conservation: Awakening the Spirit of Hinduism: O.P. Dwivedi 2.17 Islamic Environment: Ethics, Law, and Society: Mawil Y. Izzi Deen (Samarrai) 2.18 Central African Voices on the Human-Environmental Relationship: Richard B. Peterson 2.19 An Aboriginal Perspective on the Integrity of Creation: Stan McKay 2.20 Biodiversity and Tradition in Malaysia: Patrick Segundad 2.21 Learning to Connect Spirit, Mind, Body, and Heart to the Environment: A Healer's Perspective: Lea Bill-Rippling Water Woman Part III: Ecotheology in an Age of Environmental Crisis: Transforming Tradition 3.1 The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis: Lynn White 3.2 The Ecological Crisis: A Common Responsibility: Pope John Paul II 3.3 Creation and the Covenant of Caring: American Baptist Churches USA 3.4 Basis for Our Caring: Evangelical Lutheran Church in America 3.5 Evangelical Declaration on the Environment On the Care of Creation: Evangelical Environmental Network 3.6 Address of His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew:Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew 3.7 Christianity and Ecology: John F. Haught 3.8 Protestant Theology and Deep Ecology: John B. Cobb 3.9 What is Eco-Kosher? Arthur Waskow 3.10 African-American Resources for A More Inclusive Liberation Theology: Theodore Walker, Jr. 3.11 An Islamic Response to the Manifest Ecological Crisis: Issues of Justice: Nawal H. Ammar 3.12 Hinduism and Deep Ecology: Christopher Key Chapple 3.13 Beyond the Enlightenment Mentality: Tu Weiming 3.14 To Save All Beings: Buddhist Environmental Activism: Stephanie Kaza 3.15 Somebody, not Something: Do Animals Have Souls? Gary A. Kowalski 3.16 The Theological Basis of Animal Rights: Andrew Linzey 3.17 No Place to Hide: Spirituality, Avoidance, and Denial: Roger S. Gottlieb Part IV: Ecotheology in an Age of Environmental Crisis: Ecofeminist Spirituality 4.1 Ecofeminism: Symbolic and Social Connections of the Oppression of Women and the Domination of Nature: Rosemary Radford Ruether 4.2 The Trinity and Human Experience: An Ecofeminist Approach: Ivone Gebara 4.3 Ecology is a Sistah's Issue Too: The Politics of Emergent Afrocentric Ecowomanism: Shamara Shantu Riley 4.4 Something or Nothing: An Eco-Womanist Essay on God, Creation, and Indispensibility: Karen Baker-Fletcher 4.5 Sensuous Minds and the Possibilities of a Jewish Ecofeminist Practice: Irene Diamond and David Seidenberg 4.6 Messages from the Past: The World of the Goddess: Riane Eisler 4.7 The Rainbow Bridge: Brooke Medicine Eagle 4.8 The Chipko Women's Concept of Freedom: Vandana Shiva Part V: Ecotheology in an Age of Environmental Crisis: Spiritual Deep Ecology 5.1 The Fawn: Edna St. Vincent Millay 5.2 The Ecology of Magic: David Abram 5.3 Into the Future: Thomas Berry 5.4 Faith, Power, and Ecology: Joanna Macy 5.5 from The Others: How Animals Made us Human: Paul Shephard Part VI: Religious Practice for a Sacred Earth 6.1 Dance to Heal the Earth: Dee Smith 6.2 Earth Gathas: Thich Nhat Hanh 6.3 Blessings and Praise Bal Tashchit: Ellen Bernstein and Dan Fink 6.4 Wiwanyag Wachipi: The Sun Dance: Black Elk 6.5 Worship Resources, Earth Day Sunday: National Council of Churches 6.6 Invocation: John Seed 6.7 Gaia Meditations: John Seed and Joanna Macy 6.8 Evolutionary Remembering: John Seed and Pat Fleming 6.9 The Blessing of the Water: Marina Lachecki Part VII: Ecology, Religion, and Society 7.1 Saving the World: Religion and Politics in the Environmental Movement: Roger S. Gottlieb 7.2 Environmental Justice, Neopreservationalism, and Sustainable Spirituality: Mark I. Wallace 7.3 Reinhabiting Religion: Green Sisters, Ecological Renewal, and the Biogeography of Religious Landscape: Sarah McFarland Taylor 7.4 Interview with Cesar Chavez: Catherine Ingram 7.5 Redwood Rabbis: Seth Zuckerman 7.6 Of Telescopes, Squirrels, and Prayers: The Mt. Graham Controversy: Evelyn Martin 7.7 Mhondoro: Spirit Lions and Sacred Forests: Bruce Byers 7.8 Seeking Eco-Justice in the South African Context: Ernst Conradie, Charity Majiza, Jim Cochrane, Welile T. Sigabi, Victor Molobi, and David Field 7.9 On Sustainability: B.D. Sharma 7.10 Globalization and the Perennial Question of Justice: Mary John Mananzan 7.11 Sacred Rivers, Sacred Damns: Competing Visions of Social Justice and Sustainable Development along the Narmada: William F. Fisher 7.12 Statements by the United Church of Christ on Environmental Racism in St. Louis: United Church of Christ 7.13 Race, Sacrifice, and Native Lands: Jonna Higgins-Freese and Jeff Tomhave 7.14 The Cochabamba Declaration on Water: Globalization, Privitization, and the Search for Alternatives: Coordinadora de Defensa del Agua y de la Vida (Coalition in Defense of Water and Life) 7.15 Street Trees: Melody Ermachild Chavis 7.16 Statement on Global Warming and Climate Change by North Carolina's Religions and Spiritual Leaders: Interfaith Global Climate Change Campaign, North Carolina Chapter 7.17 Principles of Environmental Justice: The First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit 7.18 Statement by Religious Leaders at the Summit on the Environment: Religious Leaders at the Summit on Environment 7.19 Declaration of the Mission to Washington: Joint Appeal by Religion and Science for the Environment 7.20 Catholic Social Teaching and Environmental Ethics: United States Catholic Conference Suggestions for Further Reading Websites on Religion and the Environment Environmental Organizations About the Contributors