Purifying the earthly body of God : religion and ecology in Hindu India / edited by Lance E. Nelson. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nelson, Lance E., 1947-

Series:

SUNY series in religious studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human ecology--Religious aspects--Hinduism.

Human ecology.

Hinduism--Doctrines.

Hinduism.

Human ecology--India.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 366 p. )

Place of Publication:

Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, c1998.

Contents:

Toward an indigenous Indian environmentalism / Christopher Key Chapple

The ecological implications of Karma theory / Harold Coward

Attitudes to nature in the early Upanishads / Arvind Sharma

The dualism of nondualism : Advaita Vedānta and the irrelevance of nature / Lance E. Nelson

Sacred immanence : reflections of ecofeminism in Hindu tantra / Rita DasGupta Sherma.

Models and images for Vaiṣṇava environmental theology : the potential contribution of Śrīvaiṣṇavism / Patricia Y. Mumme

Sin an rain : moral ecology in rural north India / Ann Grodzins Gold

On the ethics and aesthetics of recycling in India / Frank J. Korom

Learning the story of the land : reflections on the liberating power of geography and pilgrimage in the Hindu tradition / David Kinsley.

Theology and ecology at the birthplace of Kṛṣṇa / Bruce M. Sullivan

The earth as goddeess Bhū Dhevī : toward a theory of "embedded ecologies" in folk Hinduism / Vijaya Rettakudi Nagarajan

Idioms of degeneracy : assessing Gaṅgā's purity and pollution / Kelly D. Alley.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4384-1438-2

0-585-05965-9