Tucker, Mary Evelyn, Williams, Duncan Ryūken, Barnhill, David Landis, Chapple, Christopher Key, Eckel, Malcolm David, Habito, Ruben L. F., Harris, Ian, Ingram, Paul O., Kaza, Stephanie, Kraft, Kenneth, Lancaster, Lewis, Loori, John Daido, Natadecha-Sponsel, Poranee, Odin, Steve, Parkes, Graham, Rockefeller, Steven C., Sponberg, Alan, Sponsel, Leslie E., Swearer, Donald K., Yamauchi, Jeff: Books
Buddhism and Ecology: The Interconnection of Dharma and Deeds (Religions of the World and Ecology)
by Mary Evelyn Tucker (Editor), Duncan Ryūken Williams (Editor), David Landis Barnhill (Contributor), Christopher Key Chapple (Contributor), Malcolm David Eckel (Contributor), Ruben L. F. Habito (Contributor), & 14 more
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“A volume of this kind is an important step in engaging scholarship to address critical issues of our time. The potential of religious traditions offering resources for rethinking our relation to the earth is one of the most exciting themes to emerge from scholarship in many years. This volume will be a first important step to the full understanding of the contribution humankind's perceptions of the sacred can make to the way we care for our earth.”―Rodney L. Taylor Professor of Religious Studies and Associate Dean
of the Graduate School, University of Colorado
“What a significant advance these articles represent for the study of religion and ecology. The potential contribution to the new field of J religious ecology is immense. These papers will help to create a coherent field for the study of Buddhism and ecology. What is even more important, though this is not the precise task of scholarship, these papers will help define the modern Buddhist response to ecological ethics.”―John Berthrong, Associate Dean for Academic and Administrative Affairs, Boston University School of Theology, and Director, Institute for Dialogue among Religions
About the Author
Mary Evelyn Tucker is Senior Lecturer, Yale Divinity School.
An ordained Buddhist priest in the Soto Zen tradition, Duncan Ryūken Williams has spent years piecing together the story of the Japanese American community during World War II. A renowned scholar of Buddhism, he has taught at the University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Irvine, and Trinity College, and is now the Director of the Shinso Ito Center for Japanese Religions and Culture at the University of Southern California. He has published five other books, including The Other Side of Zen.
Christopher Key Chapple is Navin and Pratima Doshi Professor of Indic and Comparative Theology, Loyola Marymount University.
Malcolm David Eckel is Associate Professor of Religion at Boston University.
Donald K. Swearer is Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Harvard Divinity School’s Center for the Study of World Religions and Professor of Religion, Emeritus, at Swarthmore College.
Product details
Publisher : Harvard University Press (January 15, 1998)
Language: : English
Paperback : 467 pages
ISBN-10 : 0945454147
ISBN-13 : 978-0945454144
Item Weight : 1.91 pounds
Dimensions : 6.25 x 1.25 x 9.25 inches
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great book and service.Reviewed in the United States on December 13, 2016
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Important early writing on Buddhist environmentalism. Delivered well.
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A very well done and thought provoking series.
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R. Griffiths
4.0 out of 5 stars An excellent introduction to Buddhist environmentalismReviewed in the United States on November 22, 2000
This is a first rate academic introduction to Buddhist environmentalism. 'Buddhism and Ecology' is one of a series of volumes on world faiths and ecology produced by the Harvard University Center for the Study of World Religions. It contains 19 essays from a variety of perspectives, all seeking to make a Buddhist contribution to the ongoing discussion of the environmental crisis.
While a number of essays are philosophical in nature, practical outcomes are not neglected. The essays consider Buddhism as practised in Thailand, Japan, India, America and elsewhere. Theravada, Mahayana and Zen traditions are specifically considered, as is 'engaged Buddhism'.
I would recommend this work as an excellent introduction to a continuing discussion, with only the following two reservations. First, most of the essays are written by American, or American based, authors. This is not necessarily a problem, and it reflects the nature of the conference which produced the papers presented here. But given the wealth of writers on Buddhism around the world, a greater breadth could have been represented. This leads to my second minor gripe, which is that there are no essays specifically on Tibetan Buddhism. This is a great shame, although, clearly, not everything can be considered, even in a fairly weighty tome such as this.
There is an extremely useful bibliography, and I now recommend this book to interested people, alongside 'Dharma Gaia', which covers similar ground, but in a more populist, less academic way. 'Dharma Rain' is another recent work covering similar ground in a slightly less academic fashion.
