Description: Greening Philosophy of Religion: Process, Ecology, and Ethics imagines ecological democracy as an ideal horizon for facing climate catastrophe, with a radical hope for realizing a more sustainable planetary economy that places a high value on food sovereignty, an ethic of trus...
Brief description: Robert Smid is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Curry College, USA.
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"Greening Philosophy of Religion: Process, Ecology, and Ethics is a welcome collection of essays that moves in two directions. Either, they start with problems in philosophy of religion (or theology) and move toward the problems treated in environmental ethics, or they start with topics in environmental ethics and explore the philosophical/theological dimensions of these problems that are usually left in an implicit state. Further, the processual character of these two movements is explicated in several illuminating ways. Ecophilosophers, ecotheologians, and those who are taken by the spiritual dimensions of nature and naturalism will all benefit from this book." --Daniel A. Dombrowski, Seattle University
"Through the wise guidance of Oh and Quiring, Greening Philosophy of Religion: Process, Ecology, and Ethics breaks out of its detached abstraction, branching into a deep green collective of comparative, aesthetic, and ecological embodiment." --Catherine Keller, Drew University "Since the birth of environmental philosophy, theology, and ethics in the early 1970's, Whitehead's 'philosophy of organism' has functioned as a metaphysical midwife whose various ecological insights continue to nurture the "greening" of our disciplines. Greening Philosophy of Religion in particular is one of the most exciting developments indebted to the rich soil of process metaphysics. The chapters of this volume grow together as if in a garden and make a significant contribution to "greening" discourse." --Andrew M. Davis, Program Director, Center for Process Studies