Religion And Ecology In India And Southeast Asia

Author : David L Gosling
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134551770
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion and Ecology in India and Southeast Asia written by David L Gosling and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Lance E. Nelson
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791439234
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Purifying the Earthly Body of God written by Lance E. Nelson and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An interdisciplinary exploration of the relationship between religion and environment in Hinduism.

Author : Chris Coggins
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000577805
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sacred Forests of Asia written by Chris Coggins and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-05-30 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting a thorough examination of the sacred forests of Asia, this volume engages with dynamic new scholarly dialogues on the nature of sacred space, place, landscape, and ecology in the context of the sharply contested ideas of the Anthropocene. Given the vast geographic range of sacred groves in Asia, this volume discusses the diversity of associated cosmologies, ecologies, traditional local resource management practices, and environmental governance systems developed during the pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial periods. Adopting theoretical perspectives from political ecology, the book views ecology and polity as constitutive elements interacting within local, regional, and global networks. Readers will find the very first systematic comparative analysis of sacred forests that include the karchall mabhuy of the Katu people of Central Vietnam, the leuweng kolot of the Baduy people of West Java, the fengshui forests of southern China, the groves to the goddess Sarna Mata worshiped by the Oraon people of Jharkhand India, the mauelsoop and bibosoop of Korea, and many more. Comprising in-depth, field-based case studies, each chapter shows how the forest’s sacrality must not be conceptually delinked from its roles in common property regimes, resource security, spiritual matters of ultimate concern, and cultural identity. This volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of indigenous studies, environmental anthropology, political ecology, geography, religion and heritage, nature conservation, environmental protection, and Asian studies.

Author : David L Gosling
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429626843
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Science and Development in Thai and South Asian Buddhism written by David L Gosling and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-27 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Becoming a Buddhist monk in Thailand has for a long time provided the opportunity for access to a good education and to social advancement, both to bright, poor rural youths and to members of the urban elite whose youth often become monks for a few months as a rite of passage into adulthood. Moreover, although women are not allowed to become fully fledged monks, recent developments have encouraged a special status akin to nuns for many devout Thai Buddhist women. All this has resulted in large numbers of well-educated, well-motivated Buddhist religious people, keen both to engage in religious contemplation and also determined to contribute to this-worldly social, economic, educational and medical development goals. This book, by a leading authority on the subject, considers the role of Thai Buddhist religious people in development within Thailand. It discusses how Thai Buddhism has evolved philosophically and in its organisation to allow this, examines various examples of Buddhist people's engagement in development projects, and assesses how the situation is likely to unfold going forward. In addition, the book considers the relationship between science and religion in Thai Buddhism and also some aspects of the parallel situation in Sri Lanka.

Author : Roger S. Gottlieb
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199727694
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Ecology written by Roger S. Gottlieb and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-09 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last two decades have seen the emergence of a new field of academic study that examines the interaction between religion and ecology. Theologians from every religious tradition have confronted world religions past attitudes towards nature and acknowledged their own faiths complicity in the environmental crisis. Out of this confrontation have been born vital new theologies based in the recovery of marginalized elements of tradition, profound criticisms of the past, and ecologically oriented visions of God, the Sacred, the Earth, and human beings. The proposed handbook will serve as the definitive overview of these exciting new developments. Divided into three main sections, the books essays will reflect the three dominant dimensions of the field. Part one will explore traditional religious concepts of and attitudes towards nature and how these have been changed by the environmental crisis. Part II looks at larger conceptual issues that transcend individual traditions. Part III will examine religious participation in environmental politics.

Author : Cathrien de Pater
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3643900171
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion and Sustainable Development written by Cathrien de Pater and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2009 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This publication is focused on the interface between religion, sustainable development and higher education. It is based on the underlying research question : How are the different worldviews and religions as well as the debate about their alleged contributions to sustainable development incorporated in the academic disciplines of religious studies and theology?"--P. [7]

Author : Constance Jones
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0816075646
Total Pages : 593 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Hinduism written by Constance Jones and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated A to Z reference containing more than 700 entries providing information on the theology, people, historical events, institutions and movements related to Hinduism.

Author : Vijaya Nagarajan
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195170822
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Feeding a Thousand Souls written by Vijaya Nagarajan and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2018-10-25 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every day before sunrise, millions of Tamil women in southeast Asia create the kolam, an ephemeral ritual drawing created with rice flour on the thresholds of houses, businesses, and temples. The kolam welcomes Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth, good luck, wellness, and alertness, while banishingMudevi, the goddess of poverty, misery, ill-luck, sickness, and laziness. It also acts as a reminder to remember and ask forgiveness from the earth goddess Bhudevi for walking on her. Creating the kolam is a ritual of compassion and generosity, and is meant to feed a thousand souls by providingnourishment for insects and small creatures.The kolam forms a connection between the spiritual and the natural world for many Hindu women. This is the first comprehensive book on the kolam in the English language. It examines its significance in historical, mathematical, ecological, anthropological, and literary contexts. Feeding a ThousandSouls is the culmination of Vijaya Nagarajan's many years of research and writing on the kolam and on the experiences, thoughts, and voices of Tamil women.

Author : Pankaj Jain
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9781409405917
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dharma and Ecology of Hindu Communities written by Pankaj Jain and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2011 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Indic religious traditions, a number of rituals and myths exist in which the environment is revered. Despite this, India's natural resources are under heavy pressure with its growing economy and exploding population. Presenting the texts of Bishnois, their environmental history, and their contemporary activism; investigating the Swadhyaya movement from an ecological perspective; and exploring the Bhil communities and their Sacred Groves, this book applies a non-Western hermeneutical model to interpret the religious traditions of Indic communities.

Author : Fenggang Yang
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004214798
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Scientific Studies of Religion in China written by Fenggang Yang and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-01-27 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a sampling of recent field studies of religions in China, along with theoretical reflections by sociologists, anthropologists and religious studies scholars, both inside and outside China, on the revival of the social scientific study of religion in Chinese societies.