1st Edition
Religion and Ecological Crisis The “Lynn White Thesis” at Fifty
1. Introduction
Todd LeVasseur and Anna Peterson
2. Lynn White Jr.’s ‘The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis’ after Fifty Years
Elspeth Whitney
3. The Historical Roots of Environmental Philosophy
J. Baird Callicott
4. Sinners in the Hands of an Ecological Crisis: Lynn White's Environmental Jeremiad
Mark R. Stoll
5. Lynn White Jr. Right and Wrong: The Anti-Ecological Character of Latin Christianity, and the Pro-Ecological Turn of Protestantism
Michael S. Northcott
6. Animism and Reincarnation: Lynn White in Indian Country
Shepard Krech III
7. Lynn White Jr., One Catalyst in the Historical Development of Spiritual Ecology
Leslie Sponsel
8. Continuing the Conversation: Applying Lynn White Jr.’s Prescriptions for a Christian Environmental Ethic
Christopher Cone
9. Lynn White, Jr. and India: Romance? Reality?
Christopher Key Chapple
10. The Challenges of Worldview Transformation: ‘To Rethink and Refeel our Origins and Destiny’
Heather Eaton
11. Gender and Genesis: Religion, Secular Science, and the Project of Power and Control
Chaone Mallory
12. A Lens, a Path, a Return Journey—Lynn White and the Question of Animal Protection
Paul Waldau
13. What’s Left (Out) of the Lynn White Narrative?
Whitney A. Bauman
14. Therefore the Winds: Some Thoughts on the ‘Roots’
William R. Jordan III
Biography
Todd LeVasseur is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the College of Charleston in South Carolina, in the Religious Studies Department, and he is currently Program Director of Environmental Studies. He has published numerous articles and chapters on topics including climate change, sustainability, radical environmentalism, sustainable agriculture, and ecolinguistics. He is lead editor for a forthcoming book from the University Press of Kentucky titled Religion and Sustainable Agriculture: World Spiritual Traditions and Food Ethics.
Anna Peterson is professor in the Department of Religion at the University of Florida. She received her PhD from the University of Chicago Divinity School and her AB from the University of California at Berkeley. Her research interests are in religion and social change, especially in Latin America; environmental and social ethics; and the place of animals in environmental thought. She has published a number of articles, chapters, and books, including Being Human: Ethics, Environment, and Our Place in the World (2001), Everyday Ethics and Social Change: The Education of Desire (2009) and Being Animal: Beasts and Boundaries in Nature Ethics (2013). Presently she is working on two research projects: on one the place of practice in ethical theory and another on the companion animal rescue movement.
