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Religion and Ecological Crisis : Responses from Asia.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Halskov Hansen, Mette.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ecology--Religious aspects.
- Ecology.
- Environmental protection--Asia.
- Environmental protection.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (234 pages)
- Edition:
- 1ST ED.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden : Leiden University Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- With case studies from India, China, Taiwan, and Vietnam, this book highlights the ways in which religious and spiritual institutions serve as repositories of alternative ways of knowing and acting.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- About the Authors
- Introduction. Religion and Ecological Crisis: Responses from Asia
- Mette Halskov Hansen and Kenneth Bo Nielsen
- Chapter 1. Enlisting the Divine Farmer, Shennong: Spirituality, Science, and Environmentalism in Taiwan
- Koen Wellens and Mette Halskov Hansen
- Chapter 2. Yogic Ecology? Spirituality, Science, and Pseudoscience in Indian Agroecological Movements for Soil Health
- Daniel Münster
- Chapter 3. Ecopractices, Self-Realization, and Interpretations of Tradition in a Chinese Ecovillage
- Wengkang Qian, Zhaohui Liu, and Rune Svarverud
- Chapter 4. Hòa Hảo Buddhism and the Target of Net-Zero Plastic Waste in the Mekong Delta
- Nhung Lu Rots
- Chapter 5. Pragmatic Environmentalism: Sikhism and Grassroots Environmental Advocacy in North India
- Aase Jeanette Kvanneid
- Chapter 6. "Purity at the Source": Tzu Chi's Organizational and Communal Storytelling about Recycling and Vegetarianism
- Hongtao Li and Lu Chen
- Chapter 7. Agroecology as Christian Environmentalism in a Hindu Majoritarian Context
- Kenneth Bo Nielsen and Nihar Gokhale
- Chapter 8. The Purest Food: Cowmilk, Transcendent Claims, and Ecological Sustainability in India
- Amita Baviskar
- Chapter 9. Ecologies of Gods and States: Theogenic Soils and Forests in the Blang Mountains, China
- Daniel Mohseni Kabir Bäckström
- Afterword. The Jury Is Still Out
- Robert P. Weller
- Index.
- Notes:
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 94-006-0572-2
- 9789400605725
- OCLC:
- 1572418608
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