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Religion and the Environment

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  • © 2002

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  1. Ralph Tanner
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  2. Colin Mitchell
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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction: Religion and the Environment

    • Ralph Tanner, Colin Mitchell
    Pages 1-16

  3. Types of Religions

    • Ralph Tanner, Colin Mitchell
    Pages 17-44

  4. The Limitations on Religion/Environment Interactions

    • Ralph Tanner, Colin Mitchell
    Pages 45-52

  5. Perceptions of the Environment

    • Ralph Tanner, Colin Mitchell
    Pages 53-71

  6. The Effect of the Environment on Religions

    • Ralph Tanner, Colin Mitchell
    Pages 72-85

  7. The Impact of Religious Behaviour on the Environment

    • Ralph Tanner, Colin Mitchell
    Pages 86-125

  8. Socio-economic Activities and the Environment

    • Ralph Tanner, Colin Mitchell
    Pages 126-149

  9. Religious Influence and Population Pressures

    • Ralph Tanner, Colin Mitchell
    Pages 150-159

  10. Religious Acts with Consequences on Communal Lifestyle

    • Ralph Tanner, Colin Mitchell
    Pages 160-171

  11. Religious Influences on the Life Cycle and the Maintenance of Environmental Balance

    • Ralph Tanner, Colin Mitchell
    Pages 172-192

  12. The Impact of Religion on the Treatment of Animals

    • Ralph Tanner, Colin Mitchell
    Pages 193-203

  13. Religion and Environmental Management

    • Ralph Tanner, Colin Mitchell
    Pages 204-208

  14. Religion and the Environment: an Overview

    • Ralph Tanner, Colin Mitchell
    Pages 209-211

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 212-246
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About this book

This book is an analysis of the whole frontier between religion and the environment. It deals in turn with their interactions and the effects of each on the other in the major world religions. It considers the religious impact on human uses of time, space, materials, transport, and foods, and the environmental effects of religious influence on major topics such as population pressures, morbidity, mortality, marital arrangements, contraception, the treatment of animals, and environmental management.

About the authors

RALPH TANNER has taught in the Universities of East Africa and London and was Chairman of the East African Institute of Social Research. He is co-author of Social Ecology of Religion and author of Transition in African Belief, the Witch Murders in Sukumaland and numerous articles on the sociology of religion.

COLIN MITCHELL served on the United Nations team assessing the Ethiopian national development plan. He has many years experience in soil survey and land evaluation, both as a project manager and a university lecturer and has worked in many areas, especially Moslem countries, southern Europe, Africa and China, including Tibet.

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