Connecting Ecologies

Integrating Responses to the Global Challenge

Patrick Riordan, Gavin Flood

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Routledge
03 June 2024

Religion & science; Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church; Politics & government; The environment; Environmental science, engineering & technology

Series: Routledge Studies in Religion and Environment

Connecting Ecologies focuses on the environmental aspects of Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si’ and the challenge to care for our common home. It considers how best to devise and implement the new societal models needed to tackle the ecological problems facing the world today. The book addresses the need for and complexity of an integral ecology, one that looks not only at physical and biological processes but also allows for the contributions of theology, philosophy, spirituality, and psychology, including the implications for the human and social sciences. The contributions document four categories of resonances, resources, requirements, and responses evoked by a reading of Laudato Si’ and include consideration of other faith traditions. They reflect on how care for our common home motivates people in different places, cultures, and professions to cooperate for myriad goods in common. The volume is particularly relevant for scholars working in religious studies and theology with an interest in ecology, the environment, and the Anthropocene.

Edited by: Patrick Riordan, Gavin Flood
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9780367251901
ISBN 10: 0367251906
Series: Routledge Studies in Religion and Environment
Pages: 242
Publication Date: 03 June 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

1. Laudato Si’: Resonances, Resources, Requirements, and Responses 2. Connecting Ecologies: Catholic Social Teaching and Agroecology 3. Connecting Ecologies: A Jewish View 4. Islamic Approaches to Integral Ecology 5. Hinduism and Nature 6. Integral Ecology, the Resource Curse, and Global Inequity 7. Dependent Arising and Buddhist Integral Ecology 8. Vespers: Contemplative Ecology and the Common Life 9. Sacred Groves or Profitable Commodities? Exploring Dispositions Towards Our Environment in Interreligious Dialogue 10. Women, Justice, and Integral Ecology 11. A Holistic Framework to Connect People’s Movements with Our ‘Common Home’ 12. Water Jurisprudence, Property Rights and Catholic Thought 13. Recovering the Good: The Challenge of Integral Ecology to Social and Economic Sciences

Patrick Riordan SJ is Senior Fellow for Political Philosophy and Catholic Social Thought at Campion Hall, University of Oxford. His work is focused on the topic of the common good, as in the 2021 D’Arcy Lectures and in his books Global Ethics and Global Common Goods (2016) and Human Dignity and Liberal Politics: Catholic Possibilities for the Common Good (2023). Gavin Flood FBA is Professor of Hindu Studies and Comparative Religion at Oxford University, a Senior Research Fellow of Campion Hall, and the Piramal Dean of Academic Affairs at the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies. Among his books are Religion and the Philosophy of Life (2019) and The Truth Within (2014).