The enormous challenges of the environmental crisis in its many complex and interlinking aspects have been much debated. Exploding population, diminishing resources, over-consumption, crippling poverty, rampant pollution, and unrestrained industrialization have created seemingly insoluble problems of global proportions. In searching for solutions to these interrelated problems, it is becoming increasingly clear that what is needed is a recovery of mutually enhancing human-earth relations. One approach to reestablish a sense of balance with nature is to draw on worldviews that reflect this sense of reciprocity. This series examines the religions of the world and their ecological implications. The intention is to map the contours of a new field of study in religion which also has implications for contemporary environmental ethics and public-policy concerns.

The series is the result of research conducted at the Harvard University Center for the Study of World Religions over a three-year period. Conferences involved direct participation and collaboration of some six hundred scholars, religious leaders, and environmental specialists from around the world. The conferences upon which the series is based were organized by the Harvard Center for the Study of World Religions and cosponsored by Bucknell University and the Center for the Respect of Life and Environment of the Humane Society.

Series Titles

Buddhism and Ecology
Christianity and Ecology
Confucianism and Ecology
Hinduism and Ecology
Indigenous Traditions and Ecology
Islam and Ecology
Jainism and Ecology
Judaism and Ecology
Shinto and Ecology
Taoism and Ecology

 

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