Religions of the World and Ecology Series
Judaism and Ecology
Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, ed.
“Table of Contents”
Series Preface | Lawrence E. Sullivan |
Series Foreword | Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim |
Introduction |
“Judaism and the Natural World” Hava Tirosh-Samuelson |
Chapter 1 |
Constructive Jewish Theology of Nature “Toward a Jewish Theology of Nature” |
Chapter 2 |
The Human Condition: Origins, Pollution, and Death “How Much Is Too Much? Conventional versus Personal Definitions of Pollutions in Rabbinic Sources” “Jewish Death Practices: A Commentary on the Relationship of Humans to the Natrual World” “Response: Mastery and Stewardship, Wonder and Connectedness: A Typology of Relations to Nature in Jewish Text/Tradition” |
Chapter 3 |
The Doctrine of Creation “Creation in the Bible and in the Liturgy” “The Doctrine of Creation and the Idea of Nature” “Response: Natural and Supernatural Justice” |
Chapter 4 |
Nature and Revealed Morality “Respect for Nature in the Jewish Tradition” “What are the Ethical Implications of Jewish Theological Conceptions of the Natural World?” “Response: On Designing and Discovering a Jewish Ecological Ethics ” |
Chapter 5 |
Nature in Jewish Mysticism “Nature, Exile, and Disability in R. Nahman of Bratzlav’s The Seven Beggars” “The Attitude of Early Hasidim to the Natural World” “Response: The Textualization of Nature in Jewish Mysticism” |
Chapter 6 | From Speculation to Action “Reverence and Responsibility: Abraham Joshua Heschel on Nature and the Self” Edward E. Kaplan “Can Judaism Make Environmental Policy? Sacred and Secular Language in Jewish Ecological Discourse” “Jewish Environmentalism: Past Accomplishments and Future Challenges” |
Bibliography | |
Notes on Contributors Index |
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Copyright © 2002 Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard Divinity School. Reprinted with permission. |
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