Religion and Ecology in India and Southeast Asia

David L Gosling (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

224 Seiten

2001
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-24030-7 (ISBN)

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Examines the part Hinduism and Buddhism could play in resolving ecological problems facing the Indian sub-continent and South East Asia. Based on extensive fieldwork and placed in the context of religious change in the region.

What part can Hindu and Buddhist traditions play in resolving the ecological problems facing India and South East Asia? David Gosling's exciting study, based on extensive fieldwork, is of global significance: the creation of more sustainable relationships between people and the natural world is one of the most urgent social and environmental problems of the new millennium. David Gosling looks at the religions historically and from a contemporary perspective.

David L. Gosling trained as a nuclear physicist and more recently was the first Spalding Fellow in Religions at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, where he is currently based. He was Director of Church and Society at the World Council of Churches at the University of Geneva and has published widely on environmental issues in south Asia.

Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Ecology and Hindu traditions 3. Ecology and modern India 4. Struggles for the forests 5. Ecology and Buddhism 6. Thailand: a case study 7. India since Independence 8. Signs of hope 9. Expanding our horizons

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.2.2001
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	570 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Hinduismus
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
ISBN-10	0-415-24030-1 / 0415240301
ISBN-13	978-0-415-24030-7 / 9780415240307
Zustand	Neuware