So fervent has this preoccupation become that, since the early 1970s, “green” has become a synonym for “environmental” in its original adjectival form, and it has now also mutated into verb and adverb, regularly deployed to signal environmentally protective action. Much of this concern has involved a hope for a “greening” of religion in other words, it envisioned religion promoting environmentally responsible behavior. Religion and Nature Conundrums In the second half of the twentieth century, as environmental alarm grew and intensified, so did concern about the possible role of religion in nature.
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The “Readers Guide,” located after this introduction, should not be missed, for it describes the different types of entries included in the encyclopedia and explains how to use it. The introduction explains the questions that gave rise to this project, describes the approach taken and rationale for editorial judgments made along the way, spotlights some of the volume’s most important entries, and speculates about the future of nature-related religion as well as the increasingly interdisciplinary scholarly field that has emerged to track it. This introduction and the “readers guide” that follows it provide a map to this terrain. This encyclopedia represents an effort to explore this question in a way that illuminates these relationships without oversimplifying the dynamic relations between human beings, their religions, and the natural environment. The answers to it, however, are difficult and complex, intertwined with and complicated by a host of cultural, environmental, and religious variables. The question animating this encyclopedia can be simply put. Introduction Introducing Religion and Nature What are the relationships between human beings, their diverse religions, and the Earth’s living systems? This book is printed on acid-free paper, sewn, and cased in a durable buckram cloth. Printed and bound in the UK by Antony Rowe Ltd. Typeset in Rotis Serif and Rotis Sans by RefineCatch Ltd, Bungay, Suffolk. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any way or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the written permission of the copyright holder. Michael York Bath Spa University Bath, United Kingdomįirst published in 2005 by Thoemmes Continuum 11 Great George Street Bristol BS1 5RR, England The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature 2 Volumes: ISBN 1 84371 138 9 © Thoemmes Continuum, 2005 British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A CIP record of this title is available from the British Library All rights reserved. Jeffrey Kaplan Consulting Editor The University of Wisconsin OshkoshĮxecutive Editors Laura Hobgood-Oster Southwestern University Austin, TexasĪdrian Ivakhiv University of Vermont Burlington, Vermont Taylor Editor-in-Chief The University of Florida Nash Boston University School of Theology Celia Nyamweru St Lawrence University Terry Rey Florida International University David Seidenberg Maon Study Circleīron R. Harry Hahne Golden Gate Theological Seminary
Trompf University of Sydney AustraliaĪssistant Editors Sigurd Bergmann Norwegian University of Science and Technology Norway Penelope S. Graham St John University of Queensland Australia Kocku von Stuckrad University of Amsterdam The Netherlands Sarah McFarland Taylor Northwestern University Garry W. Pike California State University, Chico Lynn Ross-Bryant University of Colorado Graham Harvey The Open University United Kingdom Lois Ann Lorentzen University of San Francisco Anna Peterson University of Florida Sarah M.
Foltz University of Florida Matthew Glass University of Guelph Canada Rebecca Kneale Gould Middlebury College Associate Editors David Landis Barnhill University of Wisconsin Oshkosh Christopher Key Chapple Loyola Marymount University Richard C.
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