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Protecting Nature, Saving Creation

Ecological Conflicts, Religious Passions, and Political Quandaries

Palgrave Macmillan

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Table of contents (25 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Pasquale Gagliardi
      Pages 1-6
  3. Ariadne and the Minotaur: A Thread Winding through the Labyrinth

  4. Proceedings of the Dialogue

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17
    2. Taking in the Real: Human Beings and the Earth

      • Card. Angelo Scola
      Pages 19-26
    3. Ecological Conflicts and Religious Passions

      • Pasquale Gagliardi, Anne Marie Reijnen, Philipp Valentini
      Pages 27-31
    4. “Nature” or “Creation”?

      • Izabela Jurasz
      Pages 33-42
    5. “Dame Nature Cares Nothing for Us”

      • Simon Schaffer
      Pages 43-61
    6. Creation and Salvation

      • Bruno Latour
      Pages 63-75
    7. Seeing the World, Hearing the Word

      • Anne Marie Reijnen
      Pages 101-111
    8. Economic and Ecological Challenges

      • Ignazio Musu
      Pages 181-193
    9. Modernization as Liberation Theology

      • Michael Shellenberger, Ted Nordhaus
      Pages 195-220
  5. Afterthoughts

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 221-223
    2. Afterthought: Of Maker’s Knowledge

      • Simon Schaffer
      Pages 225-231
    3. Thoughts after the Dialogue …

      • Izabela Jurasz
      Pages 233-235

About this book

Can religions help us tackle the ecological crisis we are now facing? Can we redefine our relationship with the Earth, giving spiritual depth to ecological issues? This book attempts to answer these questions by exploring the relationship between ecology and theology.

Reviews

"Why is it proving so frustratingly difficult to determine and implement the measures necessary to protect our planet from the ravages of exploitation? Can the god of technology save us from the destruction we ourselves unleash, or must we turn to traditional religions for the passion to energize and mobilize constructive ecological policies? These urgent questions were recently examined by leading academics at a multi-disciplinary conference held in Venice, their deliberations faithfully recorded in this unusual and illuminating book. Privileged to eavesdrop on their conversations, we see more clearly than before why the achievement of consensus in political ecology is so very elusive." - John Hedley Brooke, Emeritus Professor of Science & Religion, University of Oxford, UK

"For what shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul?" The Gospel of Mark's reflection provides the inspiration for this remarkable collection of essays and dialogues that tackles nothing less than the future of our planet. Gathering together an internationally renowned collection of philosophers, sociologists and theologians, Protecting Nature, Saving Creation is a passionate, sometimes conflicted, yet always urgent, and absolutely essential account of the vital questions facing the relations between religion, nature, ecology and theology for our century. Celebrating the best scholarly traditions of the dialogue between art and science, religious and secularlife, this collection provides compelling new directions for the humanities and social sciences'." - Jerry Brotton, author of A History of the World in Twelve Maps Professor of Renaissance Studies, Queen Mary University of London, UK

Editors and Affiliations

  • Catholic University of Milan, Italy

    Pasquale Gagliardi

  • ISEO (Institut Supérieur d’Etudes Oecuméniques/Paris Institute for Advanced Studies in Ecumenism), University Paris (Institut Catholique de Paris), France

    Anne Marie Reijnen

  • FPG/FUTP (Faculté Universitaire de Théologie Protestante), Brussesl, Belgium

    Anne Marie Reijnen

  • University of Venice, Italy

    Philipp Valentini

About the editors

Angelo Scola, Patriarch of Venice, Roman Catholic Church, Italy Izabela Jurasz, Institut Catholique de Paris, France Simon Schaffer, University of Cambridge, UK Bruno Latour, Sciences Po, France Elizabeth Theokritoff, University of Cambridge, UK Andrea Vicini, Boston College, USA Eric Geoffroy, University of Strasbourg, France Matthew Engelke, London School of Economics, UK Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Ignazio Musu, University Ca 'Foscari University of Venice, Italy Ted Nordhaus, Breakthrough Institute, USA Michael Schellenberger, Breakthrough Institute, USA George Theokritoff, University of Cambridge, UK

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