Daedalus Issue on Climate Change

The fall 2001 issue of the journal Daedalus focuses on interdisciplinary issues regarding religion and ecology that specifically relate to issues raised by global climate change.

See the list of the articles contained in this issue below.

For more information about the  issue and to read the full text of all of the articles contained therein, go to the issue page on the American Academy of Arts and Sciences site. 

Daedalus is the journal of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Drawing on the enormous intellectual capacity of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, whose members are among the world’s most prominent thinkers in the sciences, humanities, arts, and social sciences, as well as the professions and public life, each issue of Dædalus features multidisciplinary, authoritative essays centered on a theme or subject.

Essays in the issue:

Introduction: The Emerging Alliance of World Religions and Ecology

Mary Evelyn Tucker and John A. Grim

 

Religion, Modern Secular Culture, and Ecology

George Erik Rupp

 

Perspectives on Environmental Change: A Basis for Action

Michael Brendan McElroy

 

The Ethical Dimensions of Global Environmental Issues

Donald A. Brown

 

Multicultural Environmental Ethics

J. Baird Callicott

 

Nature in the Sources of Judaism

Hava Tirosh-Samuelson

 

New House Rules: Christianity, Economics, and Planetary Living

Sallie McFague

 

Islam and Ecology: Toward Retrieval and Reconstruction

S. Nomanul Haq

 

Water, Wood, and Wisdom: Ecological Perspectives from the Hindu Traditions

Vasudha Narayanan

 

The Living Cosmos of Jainsim: A Traditional Science Grounded in Environmental Ethics

Christopher Key Chapple

 

Principles and Poetry, Places and Stories: The Resources of Buddhist Ecology

Donald K. Swearer

 

The Ecological Turn in New Confucian Humanism: Implications for China and the World

Tu Weiming

 

Envisioning the Daoist Body in the Economy of Cosmic Power

James Miller

 

Indigenous Americans: Spirituality and Ecos

Jack D. Forbes

 

Where Do We Go from Here?

Bill McKibben

 

 


Header photo: “Fridays for Future” demonstration, Berlin