Includes bibliographical references (p. 613-631) and index.

Transforming tradition -- Religion and ecology : conflicts and connections -- Religious environmental activism. Judaism / Hava Tirosh-Samuelson -- Catholicism / John Hart -- The earth as sacrament : insights from Orthodox Christian theology and spirituality / John Chryssavgis -- The world of nature according to the Protestant tradition / H. Paul Santmire and John B. Cobb Jr. -- Jainism and ecology : transformation of tradition / Christopher Key Chapple -- Hindu religion and environmental well-being / O.P. Dwivedi --The greening of Buddhism : promise and perils / Stephanie Kaza -- Islam / Richard C. Foltz -- Daoism and nature / James Miller -- Motifs for a new Confucian ecological vision / John Berthrong -- Religion and ecology in African culture and society / Jacob Olupona -- Indigenous traditions : religion and ecology / John A. Grim -- Population, religion, and ecology / Daniel C. Maguire -- Genetic engineering and nature : human and otherwise / Thomas A. Shannon -- So near and yet so far : animal theology and ecological theology / Andrew Linzey -- Religious ecofeminism : healing the ecological crisis / Rosemary Radford Ruether -- Science and religion in the face of the environmental crisis / Holmes Rolston III -- Religion and ecology : survey of the field / Mary Evelyn Tucker -- The spiritual dimension of nature writing / David Landis Barnhill -- Religion, environmentalism, and the meaning of ecology / Lisa H. Sideris -- Religious environmentalism in action / Roger S. Gottlieb -- Religion and environmental struggles in Latin America / Lois Ann Lorentzen and Salvador Leavitt-Alcantara -- African initiated churches as vehicles of earth-care in Africa / Marthinus L. Daneel -- The scientist and the shepherd : the emergence of evangelical environmentalism / Calvin B. Dewitt -- Religion and environmentalism in America and beyond / Bron Taylor.