Religion and Sustainability: Interreligious Resources, Interdisciplinary Responses: Intersection of Sustainability Studies and Religion, Theology, Phi

This volume brings sustainability studies into creative and constructive conversation with religion and theology. It features more than 30 chapters from scholars from a range of disciplines. These include economics, ethics, sociology, ritual studies, theology, and visual culture. This interdisciplinary content presents new insights into how to prevent the devastation of the ecosphere, which is inextricably linked to unsustainable financial, societal, racial, geopolitical, and cultural relationships.

The chapters show how humanistic elements can help enable the establishment of sustainable ways of thinking, feeling, and acting. This includes the aesthetic and emotive dimension of life. The contributors cover such topics as empowering women and girls to systemically reverse climate change, industrial agriculture and Hindu Vaiṣṇava animal ethics, and decolonizing landscapes. Coverage also looks at the issue from a variety of religious and theological perspectives. These include Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, and Christianity.

To enable the restoration and flourishing of the ecosystems of the biosphere, human societies need to be reimagined and reordered in terms of economic, cultural, religious, racial, and social equitability. This volume illustrates transformative paradigms that can help bring about such change. It introduces new principles, practices, ethics, and insights to the discourse. This edited work appeals to students, scholars, and professionals researching the ethical, moral, social, cultural, psychological, developmental, and other social scientific impacts of religion on the key markers of sustainability.