Multicultural and Religious Perspectives on Protecting the Environment, the Biosphere, and Biodiversity

 Introduction

John Lunstroth

1. UNESCO, global bioethics, and the environment

Henk ten Have

2. Integral Ecology, Natural Order & the Relational Self: Towards A Postsecular Synthesis in a New Ecological Age?

Denis Chang

3. Two Sides of the Same Coin: Global Bioethics and Social Teaching of the Church in Convergence for a Sustainable Development Environment

Alberto García Gómez and Claudia Ruiz Sotomayor 

PART 1: SECULAR PERSPECTIVES 

4. The Principle of Environmental Beneficence: towards an ethical principle for environmentally sustainable medicine

John B. Appleby

5. Environmentally Sustainable Healthcare: Reflections by a Christian Realist

Roland Chia

PART 2: MONOTHEISTIC TRADITIONS: ISLAM   

6. Islam, Biodiversity and Bioethics

 Luzita Ball

7. A response to Luzita Ball from a Jewish point of view

David Heyd 

PART 3: MONOTHEISTIC TRADITIONS: CHRISTIANITY  

8. An Orthodox Christian Ecological Ethic

Chris Durante 

9. Bioethics and environmental ethics: a historical perspective on a missed opportunity. A response to Durante from a secular perspective

Vardit Ravitsky

10. Protestant Christianity and the Environment

David Barr 

11. Protestantism and the Environment: A Buddhist Response

Sumalee Mahanarongchai

PART 4: MONOTHEISTIC TRADITIONS: JUDAISM   

12. Jewish Environmental Ethics: A Proposal for Non-Anthropocentrism

Jonathan K. Crane

13. Abrahamic and Indian Environmental Ethics

Paul Ulhas Macneill

PART 5: ASIAN TRADITIONS: DAOISM

14. A Chinese Concept of Integral Ecology from a Daoist Perspective

Edmund S.T. Kwok & Christine T.C. Lai

15. Terms of Engagement: A Muslim Reflection on Human Ecology in Response to Kwok and Lai

Aasim I. Padela 

PART 6: ASIAN TRADITIONS: CONFUCIANISM   

16. Environmental protection and obligations: A Confucian perspective

Jonathan Chan 

17. Catholic Thoughts on a Confucian Perspective on the Environmental Crisis

Colleen M. Gallagher 

PART 7: ASIAN TRADITIONS: BUDDHISM   

 18. A Construction of Environmental Ethics from a Buddhist Perspective

Ellen Y. Zhang 

19. The Buddhist Principle of Non-harm to Life (Ashima) in Different Cultural Regions: A Confucian Response to Ellen Zhang

Ruiping Fan

20. Buddhist Perspectives on Bioethics: ‘Interbeing,’ ‘Ecodharma,’ and ‘Ecosattva’

Ven. Anil Sakya

21.Dialogue between Buddhism and Global Bioethics on Ecology

Lílian Santos

PART 8: ASIAN TRADITIONS: HINDUISM   

22. Are there norms in the Indian Tradition regarding the Environment? Hinduism as State Religion

John Lunstroth

23. Modernity, religion, and India: weaving the threads of a complex historical process together

Sameer Advani

24. Environment, Hinduism and the Words of Wisdom

R. R. Kishore

25. Protecting the Environment, the Biosphere, and Biodiversity: A Response to Prof. Kishore

Soraj Hongladarom. 

Index

Biography

Joseph Tham teaches bioethics at Ateneo Pontificio Regina Apostolorum (Rome, Italy) and is the former Dean of the School of Bioethics. He is a Fellow of the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics and Human Rights.

John Lunstroth is a lecturer in the Medicine and Society Program at the University of Houston, USA, and a Fellow of the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics and Human Rights (Rome, Italy).

Sameer Advani is the director of the Christianity and Culture Program and Professor of Systematic Theology at Ateneo Pontificio Regina Apostolorum (Rome, Italy).