Religious Resonance in the Contemporary World

ISBN-13: 9783639097672 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 60 str.

James Hitchcock

Opis

As the global population continues to increase at an alarming rate, the world, as a whole, now faces the issue of overpopulation. If the worlds natural resource consumption and environmental pollution/destruction continue at their current pace, then the earth will eventually no longer be able to sustain all of its inhabitants. Social change is the only way to prevent this. The worlds religious traditions possess particular motivational qualities with respect to peoples worldviews and behaviors. All of the worlds religious traditions are responding, in some way, to overpopulation. Traditions in isolation, however, do not address the complexities of the current ecological crisis. Overpopulation requires a broader approach that unites the respective responses. This book examines the value of responses to overpopulation from certain Buddhist intellectuals in the contemporary religion and ecology discourse concerning overpopulation while also underscoring instances of resonance between those responses and ones from modern Christian thinkers.

O autorze

James Harold Hitchcock III, BA from Valdosta State University
(2005), MA from Georgia State University (2008).