The literature on hinduism and the environment is vast, and growing quickly. Hindu views of nature and the environment springerlink. Law, literature, and philosophy this book argues that the standard arguments for and against the. As in humanism, supernatural beliefs are rejected in favour of critical, evidencebased thinking. These books are used by students of top universities, institutes and colleges. Jainism, dharma, and environmental ethics academic commons. Accepted december, 2011 the indian religious traditions are intertwined with equally disparate cultural, social, linguistic. Buy hinduism and environmental ethics routledge hindu studies series 1 by framarin, christopher isbn. Encyclopaedia of religion and ethics by hastings, james, 18521922. This book argues that the standard arguments for and against the claim that certain. Naturally, scholars of jain environmental ethics, such as christopher chapple, have advocated the ascetic model for environmental ethics in their writings, while scholars of hindu environmental ethics, such as vasudha narayanan and david haberman, have emphasized the devotional model. The journal of hinduchristian studies is a publication of the society for hindu christian studies.
Religion and environmentalism is an emerging interdisciplinary subfield in the academic disciplines of religious studies, religious ethics, the sociology of religion, and theology amongst others, with environmentalism and ecological principles as a primary focus. Jainism, dharma, and environmental ethics page 3 unt. First, hinduism is a dharmic religion, where the concept of dharma is considered to be the. Pdf instrumentalist interpretations of hindu environmental ethics. Hinduism and environmental ethics routledge hindu studies. In his recent book hinduism and environmental ethics, christopher framarin claims that it.
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