Religions and environments: a reader in religion, nature, and ecology

Introduction / Richard Bohannon

part 1. Wilderness: nature as wild and remote. Introduction

Encountering the wild.

The first morning / Edward Abbey (1968)

Walking / Henry David Thoreau (1862)

Selections from My first summer in the Sierra / John Muir (1911)

The gospel of nature / John Burroughs (1912)

Being prey / Val Plumwood (1996)

The council of all beings / Pat Fleming and Joanna Macy (1988)

Wilderness and religious traditions. The wild and the sacred / Thomas Berry (1999)

Wilderness as a Sabbath for the land / Scott Russell Sanders (2009)

American Indians and the wilderness / Vine Deloria, Jr. (2001)

Ecologically noble or ignoble? / Leslie Sponsel (2012)

The home culture of the Dharma: the story of a Thai forest tradition / Thanissaro Bhikkhu (1998)

Good, wild, sacred / Gary Snyder (1990)

part 2. Garden: cultivated and transformed landscapes. Introduction

Land management and garden spiritualities.

The land ethic / Aldo Leopold (1949)

The idea of a garden / Michael Pollan (1991)

A tale of two gardens / Rebecca Kneale Gould (2005)

Islam and marine conservation / Cara Wolinsky (2009)

Paradise on Earth: historical gardens of the arid Middle East / Safei El-Deen Hamed (1994)

Salvation in the garden: Daoism and ecology / Jeffrey F. Meyer (2001)

Caring and working: an agrarian perspective / Norman Wirzba (1999)

The tractor is my pulpit / Sarah McFarland Taylor (2007)

Religious responses to deforestation. The women of Chipko / Vandana Shiva (1988)

Sacred groves, sacred no more / Wangari Maathai (2010)

A tree-planting eucharist / Marthinus L. Daneel (2001)

The tree ordination ceremony / Sue Darlington (1998)

part 3. City: natural and human environments. Introduction

Nature and the city.

Where we live: urban ecotheology / Sallie McFague (2008)

Staying grounded in a high-rise building / Karen McCarthy Brown (1999)

City practice and bush practice / Kuya Minogue (1997)

Partnership / Carolyn Merchant (2004)

Green cities? Divining New Orleans: invoking wisdom for the redemption of place / Anne Daniell (2007)

Eino and Elisa: contextual Christianity discusses urban sustainability / Seppo Kjellberg (2004)

The Christian, the future, and Paolo Soleri / John B. Cobb, Jr. (1973)

Green mosques / Ibrahim Abdul-Matin (2010)

Environmental and eco-justice. Religion and environmental justice / Laurel Kearns (2012)

Tzedek and the city: justice, land use and urban life / Jeremy Benstein (2006)

Liberation theology and ecology: rivals or partners / Leonardo Boff (1997)

Whose earth is it, anyway / James Cone (2000).