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Author:   Laura Hartman (, UW Oshkosh)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 23.60cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 16.00cm
Weight:   0.590kg
ISBN:  

9780190456023

ISBN 10:   0190456027
Pages:   328
Publication Date:   30 August 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Acknowledgements List of Contributors Introduction by Laura M. Hartman Part 1: Flourishing and Its Costs Chapter 1: Buddha, Aristotle, and Science: Rediscovering Purpose and the Value of Flourishing in Nature by Colette Sciberras Chapter 2: Eating: Glimpsing God's Infinite Goodness by Nelson Reveley Chapter 3: Dialogue: Sciberras and Reveley Part 2: Animals and Care Chapter 4: Daoism, Natural Life, and Human Flourishing by David E. Cooper Chapter 5: All God's Creatures are Communities Like You (Qur'an 6:38): Precedents for Eco-halal Meat in Muslim Traditions by Sarah E. Robinson-Bertoni Chapter 6: Dialogue: Cooper and Robinson-Bertoni Part 3: Climate and Culture Chapter 7: Yoga Bodies and Bodies of Water: Solutions for Climate Change in India? By Christopher Miller Chapter 8: Understanding a 'Broken World': Islam, Ritual, and Climate Change in Mali, West Africa by Dianna Bell Chapter 9: Dialogue: Miller and Bell Part 4: Texts and Traditions Chapter 10: Intertextually Modified Organisms: Genetic Engineering, Jewish Ethics, and Rabbinic Text by Rebecca J. Epstein-Levi Chapter 11: Flourishing in Crisis: Environmental Issues in the Catholic Social Teachings by Jennifer Phillips Chapter 12: Dialogue: Epstein-Levi and Phillips Part 5: Communities and Human Agency Chapter 13: Flourishing in Nature Religion by Chris Klassen Chapter 14: Interfaith Environmentalism and Uneven Opportunities to Flourish by Amanda Baugh Chapter 15: Dialogue: Klassen and Baugh Part 6: Respect and Relationality Chapter 16: Developing a Mengzian Environmental Ethic by Cheryl Cottine Chapter 17: Relationality, Reciprocity and Flourishing in an African Landscape by Michael Hannis and Sian Sullivan Chapter 18: Dialogue: Cottine, Hannis, and Sullivan Conclusion by Laura M. Hartman

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In this fascinating, timely, and suggestive collection, the contributors extend the concept of 'flourishing' beyond human-centered virtue ethics to the wider world of ecology and environmental ethics. As a work of comparative religious ethics, it exemplifies a novel and welcome approach to cross-cultural analysis: the chapters each combine specialist attention to particular cases in context, with ongoing constructive dialogue around important aspects of human, animal, and environmental flourishing. * Aaron Stalnaker, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Indiana University * Laura Hartman has done something extraordinary: she produced a volume on comparative religious ethics whose organization replicates the type of productive dialogue at the core of this enterprise. When you add that the chapters are written in an accessible and engaging style, and this is the first comparative religious ethics collection that focuses on the non-human world, it is a must read for all ethicists. * Elizabeth Bucar, author of Pious Fashion: How Muslim Women Dress * Written from a process of learned exchange across traditions, this book hosts a focused dialogue on something that matters for every living thing: what it means to flourish. Curated with originality and carefully written, this volume will be especially useful for teaching in courses on religion, on environmental studies, and on cultural dialogue. * Willis Jenkins, Professor of Religious Studies and Co-Director of the Institute for Practical Ethics at the University of Virginia *

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Laura M. Hartman blends her passions for religion and the environment in her work on consumption, climate engineering, ecological restoration, feminism, virtue, and other topics. She is author of The Christian Consumer: Living Faithfully in a Fragile World and editor of That All May Flourish: Comparative Religious Environmental Ethics.

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