1st Edition

Connecting Ecologies Integrating Responses to the Global Challenge

Edited By Patrick Riordan, Gavin Flood Copyright 2024
252 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

252 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

252 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Connecting Ecologies focuses on the environmental aspects of Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si’ and the challenge to care for our common home. It considers how best to devise and implement the new societal models needed to tackle the ecological problems facing the world today. The book addresses the need for and complexity of an integral ecology, one that looks not only at physical and... Read more

1. Laudato Si’: Resonances, Resources, Requirements, and Responses

Patrick Riordan

2. Connecting Ecologies: Catholic Social Teaching and Agroecology

Matthew Philipp Whelan

3. Connecting Ecologies: A Jewish View

Norman Solomon

4. Islamic Approaches to Integral Ecology

Minlib Dallh

5. Hinduism and Nature

Gavin Flood

6. Integral Ecology, the Resource Curse, and Global Inequity

Jack Parsons

7. Dependent Arising and Buddhist Integral Ecology

Dhivan Thomas Jones

8. Vespers: Contemplative Ecology and the Common Life

Douglas E. Christie

9. Sacred Groves or Profitable Commodities? Exploring Dispositions Towards Our Environment in Interreligious Dialogue

Michael Stoeber

10. Women, Justice, and Integral Ecology

Suzanne Mulligan

11. A Holistic Framework to Connect People’s Movements with Our ‘Common Home’

Xavier Jeyaraj

12. Water Jurisprudence, Property Rights and Catholic Thought

Rodrigo Pablo Pérez

13. Recovering the Good: The Challenge of Integral Ecology to Social and Economic Sciences

Patrick Riordan

Biography

Patrick Riordan SJ is Senior Fellow for Political Philosophy and Catholic Social Thought at Campion Hall, University of Oxford. His work is focused on the topic of the common good, as in the 2021 D’Arcy Lectures and in his books Global Ethics and Global Common Goods (2016) and Human Dignity and Liberal Politics: Catholic Possibilities for the Common Good (2023).

Gavin Flood FBA is Professor of Hindu Studies and Comparative Religion at Oxford University, a Senior Research Fellow of Campion Hall, and the Piramal Dean of Academic Affairs at the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies. Among his books are Religion and the Philosophy of Life (2019) and The Truth Within (2014).