Title:
Religion and sustainable agriculture : world spiritual traditions and food ethics / edited by Todd LeVasseur, Pramod Parajuli, and Norman Wirzba ; foreword by Vandana Shiva.
Author:
LeVasseur, Todd, editor.
Parajuli, Pramod, editor.
Wirzba, Norman, editor.
Shiva, Vandana, writer of foreword.
Publication Information:
Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, [2016]
©2016
Call Number:
S494.5.S86 R45 2016
Abstract:
"In this wide-ranging collection, eminent scholars, theologians, activists, and lay farmers illuminate how religious beliefs influence and are influenced by the values and practices of sustainable agriculture. Together, they analyse a multitude of agricultural practices for their contributions to healthy, ethical living and environmental justice."-- Provided by publisher.
ISBN:
9780813167978
Series:
Culture of the land : a series in the new agrarianism
Culture of the land.
Physical Description:
x, 376 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Contents:
Our flesh was made from corn / Soils, spirits and the cosmocentric economy: Recreating Amazonian dark earth in Peru / Renewal of non-western methods for sustainable living / Nature spirituality, sustainable agriculture, and the nature/culture paradox: the permaculture scene in Lower Puna, Big Island of Hawaii / Hindu traditions and peasant farming in the Himalayan foothills of Nepal / Dharma for the earth, water, and agriculture: Perspectives from the Swadhyaya / Thailand's moral rice revolution: Cultivating a collective eccological consciousness / The seven species and their relevance to sustainable agriculture in Israel today / Tending to the Garden of Eden: Sacred Jewish agriculture traditions / Religion, local community, and sustainable agriculture / Heideggerian reflections on three Mennonite cookbooks and a Mennonite farm in Northwest Ohio / Steward or Priest? The possibilities of a Christian chicken farmer / Religion and agriculture: How Islam forms the moral core of SEKEM's holistic development approach in Egypt / Tohono O'odham Himdag and Agri/culture / Conclusion: Searching for Annapurna; or, Cultivating earthbound regenerative abundance in the anthropocene
