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- catalog abstract ""India, Hinduism's homeland, faces a host of environmental challenges, from deforestation and desertification to environmental stresses caused by urbanization, the construction of dams, and an increase in industrial pollution. This volume explores varied responses to these environmental issues that are emerging from within Hinduism." "In this volume, scholars of Hinduism, Hindu practitioners, and environmental activists discuss the past history and future prospects for the development of environmentally responsive forms of Hinduism. Topics include the Vedic viewpoint on nature, the potential contribution of Gandhian thought, forest ecology in India, the degradation and damming of river systems, and Hindu grassroots approaches to environmental restoration."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11789150.
- catalog contributor b11789151.
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description ""In this volume, scholars of Hinduism, Hindu practitioners, and environmental activists discuss the past history and future prospects for the development of environmentally responsive forms of Hinduism. Topics include the Vedic viewpoint on nature, the potential contribution of Gandhian thought, forest ecology in India, the degradation and damming of river systems, and Hindu grassroots approaches to environmental restoration."--Jacket.".
- catalog description ""India, Hinduism's homeland, faces a host of environmental challenges, from deforestation and desertification to environmental stresses caused by urbanization, the construction of dams, and an increase in industrial pollution. This volume explores varied responses to these environmental issues that are emerging from within Hinduism."".
- catalog description "(cont.) River of love in an age of pollution / David L. Haberman -- Separate domains : Hinduism, politics, and environmental pollution / Kelly D. Alley -- The Narmanda : circumambulation of a sacred landscape / Chris Deegan -- Sacred rivers, sacred dams : competing visions of social justice and sustainable development along the Narmada / William F. Fisher -- Green and red, not saffron : gender and the politics of resistance in the Narmada valley / Pratyusha Basu and Jael Silliman -- Rituals of embedded ecologies : drawing Kolams, marrying trees, and generating auspiciousness / Vijaya Nagarajan -- The ritual capsule of Durga Puja : an ecological perspective / Madhu Khanna -- Ethical and religious dimensions of Chipko resistance / George A. James -- Appendix 1 / Harry Blair -- Appendix 2 / David Lee.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [549]-567) and index.".
- catalog description "Preface / Lawrence E. Sullivan -- Series foreword / Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim -- Introduction / Christopher Key Chapple -- Dharmic ecology / O. P. Dwivedi -- The five great elements (Pancamahabhuta) : an ecological perspective / K. L. Seshagiri Rao -- Nature romanticism and sacrifice in Rgvedic interpretation / Laurie L. Pattin -- State responsibility for environmental management : perspectives from Hindu texts on polity / Mary McGee -- Literary foundations for an ecological aesthetic : Dharma, Ayurveda, the arts, and Abhijnanasakuntalam / T. S. Rukmani -- Reading the Bhagavadgita from an ecological perspective / Lance E. Nelson -- Can Hindu beliefs and values help India meet its ecological crisis? / Anil Agarwal -- Too deep for ecology : Gandhi and the ecological vision of life / Vinal Lal -- The inner logic of Gandhian ecology / Larry D. Shinn -- The natural history of the Ramayana / David Lee -- City, forest, and cosmos : ecological perspectives from the Sanskrit epics / Philip Lutgendorf -- "Sacred grove" and ecology : ritual and science / Frederique Apffel-Marglin and Pramod Parajuli -- "If you cut a branch you cut my finger" : court, forest, and environmental ethics in Rajasthan / Ann Grodzins Gold --".
- catalog extent "xlix, 600 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Hinduism and ecology.".
- catalog identifier "0945454252 (hardcover : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0945454260 (paperback : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Hinduism and ecology.".
- catalog isPartOf "Religions of the world and ecology".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, Mass. : Distributed by Harvard University Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard Divinity School,".
- catalog relation "Hinduism and ecology.".
- catalog spatial "India.".
- catalog subject "294.5/178362 21".
- catalog subject "BL1215.N34 H56 2000".
- catalog subject "Ecology Religious aspects Hinduism.".
- catalog subject "Hinduism Doctrines.".
- catalog subject "Natural history India.".
- catalog subject "Nature Religious aspects Hinduism.".
- catalog tableOfContents "(cont.) River of love in an age of pollution / David L. Haberman -- Separate domains : Hinduism, politics, and environmental pollution / Kelly D. Alley -- The Narmanda : circumambulation of a sacred landscape / Chris Deegan -- Sacred rivers, sacred dams : competing visions of social justice and sustainable development along the Narmada / William F. Fisher -- Green and red, not saffron : gender and the politics of resistance in the Narmada valley / Pratyusha Basu and Jael Silliman -- Rituals of embedded ecologies : drawing Kolams, marrying trees, and generating auspiciousness / Vijaya Nagarajan -- The ritual capsule of Durga Puja : an ecological perspective / Madhu Khanna -- Ethical and religious dimensions of Chipko resistance / George A. James -- Appendix 1 / Harry Blair -- Appendix 2 / David Lee.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Preface / Lawrence E. Sullivan -- Series foreword / Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim -- Introduction / Christopher Key Chapple -- Dharmic ecology / O. P. Dwivedi -- The five great elements (Pancamahabhuta) : an ecological perspective / K. L. Seshagiri Rao -- Nature romanticism and sacrifice in Rgvedic interpretation / Laurie L. Pattin -- State responsibility for environmental management : perspectives from Hindu texts on polity / Mary McGee -- Literary foundations for an ecological aesthetic : Dharma, Ayurveda, the arts, and Abhijnanasakuntalam / T. S. Rukmani -- Reading the Bhagavadgita from an ecological perspective / Lance E. Nelson -- Can Hindu beliefs and values help India meet its ecological crisis? / Anil Agarwal -- Too deep for ecology : Gandhi and the ecological vision of life / Vinal Lal -- The inner logic of Gandhian ecology / Larry D. Shinn -- The natural history of the Ramayana / David Lee -- City, forest, and cosmos : ecological perspectives from the Sanskrit epics / Philip Lutgendorf -- "Sacred grove" and ecology : ritual and science / Frederique Apffel-Marglin and Pramod Parajuli -- "If you cut a branch you cut my finger" : court, forest, and environmental ethics in Rajasthan / Ann Grodzins Gold --".
- catalog title "Hinduism and ecology : the intersection of earth, sky, and water / edited by Christopher Key Chapple and Mary Evelyn Tucker.".
- catalog type "text".