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Population, consumption, and the environment : religious and secular responses /

"This book concentrates on the different ways in which the major world religions view the problems of overpopulation and excess resource consumption and how they approach possible solutions. After examining the natural background and the human context, the book moves on to consider both religio...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Coward, Harold G.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, ©1995.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The natural background / F. Kenneth Hare
  • The human context / Anne Whyte
  • Aboriginal spirituality, population, and the environment / Daisy Sewid-Smith
  • Judaism, population, and the environment / Sharon Joseph Levy
  • A Christian response to the population apocalypse / Catherine Keller
  • Islam, population, and the environment : a textual and juristic view / Nawal H. Ammar
  • Hinduism, population, and the environment / Klaus K. Klostermaier
  • Buddhist resources for issues of population, consumption, and the environment / Rita M. Gross
  • Chinese religions, population, and the environment / Jordan Paper and Li Chuang Paper
  • Prescriptions from religious and secular ethics for breaking the impoverishment/environmental degradation cycle / Michael McDonald
  • Projected population patterns, North-South relations, and the environment / Mahendra K. Premi
  • Environmental degradation and the religion of the market / A. Rodney Dobell
  • Ethics, family planning, status of women, and the environment / Jael M. Silliman
  • International law, population pressure, and the environment / Elizabeth A. Adjin-Tettey
  • The Northern consumption issue after Rio and the role of religion and environmentalism / Yuichi Inoue.