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£160.00

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN: 9780567325204
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 28/04/2011
Width: 15.6 cm
Height: 23.4 cm
This title is a collection of essays from top scholars in the field of Religion and Ecology that stimulates the debate about the religious contribution to ecological debate. This collection of essays brings to the surface vital dimensions in the in the engagement between religion and ecology. The authors are aware of both the political urgency, but also the need to delve into a variety of diverse traditions in order to resource such a task, namely, what might religious traditions contribute to ecological debates? A core issue addressed here is how contemporary theology might become public theology, one that is deeply relevant to the particular problems and issues of today. This then raises important theoretical questions about how theology might engage with politics. The diverse methodological approaches possible within Christian theology are represented in this collection, including those drawing on particular traditions such as Eastern Orthodox, Roman Catholic and Reformed theology, through to self consciously contextual approaches in liberation, African and Feminist discourse.
Editors' Introduction; The Baltic Sea as Case Study: The Ecological and Political Challenges of the Baltic Sea; Who Shall Speak for the Environment?; Right out of Time? Politics and Nature in a Postnatural Condition; Climate Change and The Economic Value of Nature; Latin American Liberation Theologians' Turn to Eco-Theology; Geology vs. Theology? Uranium prospecting and theological arguments in Northern Carelia; Toward and African Inculturated Christology; Environmental Amnesia or the Memory of Place? The Need for Local Ethics of Memory in a Philosophical Theology of Place; Public Theology as Eco-Theology. An Ecumenical Approach; Public Theology as Contested Ground: Theological Arguments for Climate Justice.

Dr. Celia Deane-Drummond (Campion Hall, University of Oxford, UK), Heinrich Bedford-Strohm

Professor Heinrich Bedford-Strohm ist Professor in Systematic Theology and Director of the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Research Centre for Public Theology, University of Bamberg, Germany. Professor Celia Deane-Drummond is Director of the Centre for Religion and the Biosciences at the University of Chester, UK.

"'Ecology and Environment are among the most demanding global challenges of our era. It is time to mobilize the best religious and cultural energies of humankind to address this issue' - Wolfgang Huber, Presiding Bishop em. of the Protestant Church in Germany."