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Catholic Ecology

"Our duties towards the environment are linked to our duties towards the human person, considered in himself and in relation to others. It would be wrong to uphold one set of duties while trampling on the other. Herein lies a grave contradiction in our mentality and practice today: one which demeans the person, disrupts the environment, and damages society."

Native American Prayers

"My words are tied in one with the great mountains, with the great rocks, with the great trees, in one with my body and heart. All of you see me, one with this world." Yokuts Prayer (Web Site)

An Assessment of Buddhist Eco-Philosophy 
By Donald K. Swearer

In response to the growing global environmental crisis, scholars have begun to iinterrogate religious traditions as a possible resource for the development of an environmental ethic.  It is not surprising to discover that different points of view regarding environmental ethics and religion, or what is referred to more generally as "religion and ecology," have materialized. At one end of the spectrum are apologists who see the world's religions as a key resource in addressing the environmental crisis; at the other, critics point to religion as redounding to the crisis. 
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A Study on Environmental Issues with Reference to the 
Qur'an and the  Sunna
By Mohammad Assayed Jamil

Concern for environmental issues has increased today as skills have developed more quickly than wisdom and rationalism and as environmental problems have become a reality endangering human life both in the present and in the future. The situation could become worse unless human beings change their behavior to the better.  It goes without saying that if human beings had abided by the teachings of Islam, complied with its injunctions, and heeded its warnings, they would have avoided all the causes at the root of environmental problems.  
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Healing the Rift? Christians and Ecology 
By Mary Taylor

A further implication of the doctrine of creation from nothing is that all of God’s creatures are
intimately connected to one another in an echo of the primordial coinherence of the Trinitarian
persons. Since all creation is centered in God, all finite things, despite their enormous differences in size, position, quality, or metaphysical status, are linked together as ontological siblings. When Francis of Assisi spoke of ‘brother sun and sister moon,’ he was using language not only poetically evocative but metaphysically precise.
 
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‘Green Muslims,’ Eco-Islam and Evolving Climate Change Consciousness
By John Wihbey 

High levels of climate concern, bounded by costs of managing climate risks, characterize much of the Muslim world, with interesting differences from the West on the science/religion relationship … and with a preference for viewing climate change through a broader prism of global environmental concerns. Full Text Here.

Ecology: A Primer for Christian Ethics 
By Holmes Rolston

An ecological ethics mixes how the natural world is with how humans ought to  behave in it, mixing science  and  conscience,  often with this suggestion that humans ought to find a lifestyle more respectful of,  or harmonious with, nature. Ample numbers of Christian theologians and 
ethicists have felt that religion too needs to pay more attention to ecol­ogy,  and perhaps also vice versa.
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Our Sacred Earth Hinduism and The Environment
By Matthew McDermott

Wherever you look in Hindu scripture, you find references reinforcing the central pillar of Hindu environmental thought: All is God, all is Divine, all is to be treated with reverence and respect, all is sacred. As O.P. Dwivedi points out, three grand concepts build on this truism: Vasudeva sarvam (the Supreme resides in all beings); Vasudhaiva kutumbakam (the family of Mother Earth--the original "global village"); and Sarva bhuta hita (the welfare of all beings) (Hinduism and Ecology).  Full Text Here.

Ecology: Some Theological Challenges 
By K.C. Abraham

Ecological crisis is a spiritual crisis.  The relation between human and nature is based on 
a vision of God who created heaven and Earth as an  interdependent organism of unity.  Any 
disruption in this fragile unity mostly by human irresponsibility and avarice is a grievous 
problem and plunges our life into great peril.  The purpose of this article is not to analyse the 
Earth crisis and to suggest a remedy, but to look afresh some of the challenges it brings to our 
understanding and practise of Christian faith, including raising some critical observations about 
some aspects of church’s tradition.  We are committed to a vision of human wholeness, which 
includes not only our relationship with one another as humans, but also our relationship vis-à-vis  nature and universe.
 Full Text Here.

Islam and Ecology (Bibliography)
By Richard Foltz

Hinduism and Ecology (Bibliography)
By Christopher Key Chapple

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This site promotes the orientation, activities, resources and projects of the Centre for the Study of Sustainable Futures and Spirituality (GCSSFS). The Centre is supported in the area of content generation, project execution, design and general administration by Public Media Agency (PMA),  Petaling Jaya, Malaysia under the direct care of one of their creative consultants, Dr. M. Nadarajah (Nat). Nat works as consultant on different projects.  He supports PMA on its various projects supporting social causes. Nat is presently engaged with Xavier University@Bhubaneshwar, India, with it School of Sustainability. He works with Loyola College@Chennai, India on issues related sustainability and spirituality. He is associated with the Centre for Diaspora Studies@MSU, Tirunelveli, India. He continues to support Pesticide Action Network Asia and the Pacific (PAN AP), which is based in Penang, Malaysia, as consultant on a project to set up a 'blended' institution, International People's Agroecology Multiversity (IPAM), to promote agroecology across Asia and the Pacific. He is also a member of the Asian Public Intellectual (API)  community.

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