RELG 022: Religion and Ecology (SC) [Spring 2014]: Getting Started

The first half of this book has chapters on religious traditions, including three chapters on Christianity (Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox). The second half of the book has chapters on approaches (ecofeminism) and information on religious environmental activism. The footnotes and bibliographies will lead you to related sources.

Religions of the World and Ecology
An important series that has individual volumes on major religious traditions.

Excellent collection of articles on various religious traditions and contemporary perspectives (ecofeminism etc.). The bibliographies at the end of each section list the most important books on that topic, though not all bibliographies are up to date.

Chapter Four, “The Various Christian Ethics of Species Conservation,” lists ecological position statements by denominations, organizations, and individuals and categorizes them.

Surveys Catholic environmentalism in North and South America.

A collection of both mainstream and alternative essays.

Collection of important essays. Has good introduction to Ecofeminism and Environmental Continental Philosophy. Also has interesting essay by Sturgeon on ecofeminism and indigenous women.

"What is the environment, and how does it figure in an ethical life? This book is an introduction to the philosophical issues involved in this important question, focusing primarily on ethics but also encompassing questions in aesthetics and political philosophy. Topics discussed include the environment as an ethical question, human morality, meta-ethics, normative ethics, humans and other animals, the value of nature, and nature's future. ."--BOOK JACKET.

After two useful overview chapters, other chapters survey the following traditions: Hindu, Jain, Confucian, Daoist, Buddhist, Christian, Jewish, and Islamic.