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"The Earth Cries Out describes best practices in religious responses to the impending climate and sustainability emergency, and presents the next steps for faith communities in the years ahead"--
How might understandings of environmentalism and the environmental humanities shift by incorporating Islamic perspectives? In this book, Anna M. Gade explores the religious and cultural foundations of Islamic environmentalisms. She blends textual and ethnographic study to offer a comprehensive and interdisciplinary account of the legal, ethical, social, and empirical principles underlying Muslim commitments to the earth. Muslim Environmentalisms shows how diverse Muslim communities and schools of thought have addressed ecological questions for the sake of this world and the world to come. Gade draws on a rich spectrum of materials―scripture, jurisprudence, science, art, and social and poli...
This book confronts issues relating to climate change and sustainable development innovations in Asia, with attention to key issues and applications in terms of advocacy, governance, citizen science, tradition, faith, leadership, and education. With contributions by 31 leading thinkers from countries in Asia, the book presents issues and poses potential solutions for sustainable development, responding to questions relating to problems prioritized by non-state actors for civic engagement. It also puts forward key strategies and methods used for civic engagement. Drawing from diverse sets of practical and scholarly experience and expertise in geographical and social arenas, authors draw from ...
For the first time, Sharia' and common law are compared from the perspective of environmental law to delve into their common grounds.
Without question, inter-religious relations are crucial in the contemporary age. While most dialogue works on past and contemporary matters, this volume takes on the relations among the Abrahamic religions and looks forward, toward the possibility of real and lasting dialogue. The book centers upon inter-faith issues. It identifies problems that stand in the way of fostering healthy dialogues both within particular religious traditions and between faiths. The volume's contributors strive for a realization of already existing common ground between religions. They engagingly explore how inter-religious dialogue can be re-energized for a new century.
Articulating a contemporary Islamic environmental ethic is all the more urgent because Western-style conservation efforts do not fit all cultural and philosophical traditions. This volume outlines the Islamic world view and reviews the ways it can be interpreted, reassessed, and applied to environmental problems like pollution and water scarcity.
Environmental education in Islamic religious education in Jawa Barat and Banten Province, Indonesia.
Bumi ini memang telah tua, alam telah berubah. Tetapi tampaknya banyak yang belum menyadari bahwa demi memenuhi gaya hidup dan konsumsinya, manusia telah mempercepat laju kerusakan. Keseimbangan bumi terancam akibat kerakusan yang menekan dan menghilangkan sistem pertahanan bumi seperti ekosistem dan eksistensi iklim yang seimbang. Tantangan global, seperti perubahan iklim, terus dinegosiasikan, ironinya di negara-negara berkembang seperti Indonesia, modalitas kemajuannya masih bertumpu pada sumber daya yang ekspoitatif yang memicu pupusnya keanekaragaman hayati, termasuk drastisnya kepunahan spesies penting untuk mempertahankan keseimbangan. Padahal sumber daya hayati perlu dipertahankan dan dimanfaatkan secara bekelanjutan untuk menopang keseimbangan dan modal utama bagi pembangunan berkelanjutan. Buku ini tidak hanya mengetengahkan fakta, namun juga menawarkan solusi pada tingkat kebijakan pemerintah hingga pada tataran kearifan dan etika agama dalam upaya mempertahankan kehidupan di bumi untuk keberlanjutan kehidupan.
Throughout the world religious organizations are exploring and implementing into action ideas about the relevance of religion and spirituality in dealing with a growing multitude of environmental issues and problems. Religion and spirituality have the potential to be extremely influential for the better at many levels and in many ways through their intellectual, emotional, and activist components. This collection focuses on providing a set of captivating essays on the specifics of concrete cases of environmental activism involving most of the main Asian religions from several countries. Particular case studies are drawn from the religions of Animism, Buddhism, Daoism, Hinduism, Islam, and Ja...