Summer Seminar 2003:

Religion and Ecology:
Traditions and Dialogue Partners
Friday, June 20 to Wednesday, June 25
Bucknell University
Lewisburg, Pennsylvania

Summer Fellowship reviewers:
Please notify us (programs@rsiss.net) if you choose one of these books to review so we can remove its title from our list and avoid duplication of reviews. Most of these titles should be available from a good bookstore.

East (Historical Attitudes)
1. Nonviolence to Animals, Earth, Self in Asian Traditions - Chapple
2. Nature, Culture, and Imperialism:Essays on the Environmental Hst. Of S. Asia - Arnold/Guha
3. Asian Perceptions of Nature: A critical Approach - Bruun and Kalland

West (Historical Attitudes)
1. Man and the Natural World - Keith Thomas
2. Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution - Caroline Merchant
3. Traces in the Rhodian Shore - Clarence J. Glacken
4. Ecological Imperialism - Alfred Crosby
5. Western Environmental Thought - Peter Hay

America (Historical Attitudes)
1. Wilderness and the American Mind - Nash
2. Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England - W. Cronon

World Religions and Ecology (General-Introduction-Readers-Textbooks)
1. Spirit and Nature - Rockefeller
2. Deep Ecology and World Religions - David landis Barnhill

Buddhism
1. Dharma Gaia: Harvest of Essays in Buddhism and Ecology - Badiner
2. Buddhism and Ecology - Batchelor and Brown
3. Buddist Perspectives on the Ecocrisis- Sandell- Buddhist Publication Society

Christianity
1. Caring for Creation - Max Oelschlaeger
2. Gaia and God - Rosemary Radford Reuther
3. Ecotheology: Voices from North and South - David C. Hallman
4. Theology for Earth Community: A Field Guide - Dieter T. Hessel
5. A work by Douglas John Hall (Imagining God or The Steward)

Daoism
1. Daoism and Ecology (Harvard Series)

Hinduism
1. Purifying the Earthly Body of God - ed. Lance Nelson
2. Hinduism and Ecology: Seeds of Truth - R. Prime
3. Ecology and Equity: Use and Abuse of Nature in Contemporary India - Madhav Gadgil
4. Ethical Perspectives on Environmental Issues In India - edited by George A. James
5. Religion and Ecology in India/S.E. Asia - Gosling
6. Hinduism and Ecology (Harvard Series)

Indigenous
1. Indigenous Religion and Ecology (Harvard Series)
2. Way of the Earth: Native America and the Environment - John Bierhorst
3. Make Prayers to Raven - Richard Nelson
4. Wisdom of the Elders - Suzuki and Knudtson
5. Defending Mother Earth: Native American Perspectives on Environmental Justice - Weaver

Islam
1. Islam and Ecology - Khalid and OíBrien
2. Man and Nature - Nasr
3. Religion and the Order of Nature - Nasr
4. Islam and Ecology (Harvard Series-- in press)

Jainism
1. Jainism and Ecology (Harvard Series)

Judaism
1. Judaism and Ecology - Aubrey Rose
2. Ecology and the Jewish Spirit: Where Nature and the Sacred Meet - Ellen Bernstein
3. Listen to the Trees: Jews and the Earth - Molly Cone
4. Torah of the Earth: Vol 1 Biblical Israel and Rabbinic Judaism - edited by Arthur Waskow
5. Nature and Man in the Bible - Yehuda Feliks
6. From Creation to New Creation: Old Testament Perspectives - Anderson
7. Judaism and Ecology (Harvard Series - in press)

Shinto
1. Japanese Images of Nature - Asquith and Kalland
2. Shinotism and Ecology (Harvard Series - in press.

Eco-Feminism and Religion
1.Gaia and God - Rosemary Radford Reuther
2. States of Grace - Charline Spretnak
3. Women Healing Earth: Third World Women on Ecology, Feminism, and Religion - Reuther
4. Reweaving the World: The Emergence of Ecofeminism- Irene Diamond and Gloria Orenstein
5. Healing the Wounds: The Promise of Ecofeminism -
6. Ecofeminism and the Sacred - Carol Adams
7. Staying Alive: Women, Ecology, and Development - Vandana Shiva
8. The Fruitful Darkness: Reconnecting with the Body of the Earth - Joan Halifax
9. Ecofeminism: Women, Animals, and Nature - Gaard

Environmental Ethics/ Social Justice
1. Liberation of Life: From Cell to Community - John Cobb and Charles Birch
2. After Natureís Revolt: Eco-Justice and Theology - Dieter T. Hessel
5. For the Common Good - John Cobb
6. Ecological Resistance Movements - Bron Taylor
7. What are They Saying about Environmental Ethics? - Pamela Smith
8. Sustainability: Economics, Ecology, and Justice - John Cobb
9. The Earthist Challenge to Econimism: A Theological Critique of the World Bank - Cobb
11. A Spirituality of Resistance - Roger Gottlieb

New Cosmology
2. The Greening of the Rebirth of Nature - Rupert Sheldrake
3. At Home in the Cosmos - David Toolan
4. Everybody's Story: Wising Up to the Epic of Evolution - Loyal Rue
5. When Worlds Converge: What Science and Religion Tell Us About the Story of the Universe - ed. by Matthews, Tucker, and hefner

Sustainability
1. Earth in Mind; On Education, Environment, and the Human Prospect - David Orr

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