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  Religion and the New Ecology: Environmental Responsibility in a World in Flux (Paperback) Edited by David M. Lodge, Edited by Christopher S. Hamlin, Foreword by Peter H. Raven, By (author) Elspeth Whitney, By (author) Mark Stoll, By (author) Eugene Cittadino, By (author) Houtan Kyle S. Van, By (author) Stuart L. Pimm, By (author) Gary E. Belovsky

  

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  Short Description for Religion and the New Ecology For many years, ecologists and the environmentalists who looked to ecology for authority depicted a dichotomy between a pristine, stable nature and disruptive human activity. Most contemporary ecologists, however, conceive of nature as undergoing continual change and find that "flux of nature" is a more accurate and fruitful metaphor than "balance of nature." The contributors to this volume addres
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  • Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
  • Published: 30 August 2006
  • Format: Paperback 336 pages
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  • Categories: Religious Groups: Social & Cultural Aspects | Philosophy Of Science | Environmentalist Thought & Ideology | Applied Ecology | Conservation Of The Environment | Ethics & Moral Philosophy | Religion & Science
  • ISBN 13: 9780268034047 ISBN 10: 0268034044
  • Sales rank: 753,035

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• The contributors address how the paradigm of "flux of nature" fits into the broader history of ecological science and the cultural history of the West and, in particular, how environmental ethics and ecotheology should respond to it.