Note: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- Notes on contributors -- Preface to the second edition -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Connecting religion and ecology in a context of environmental degradation -- The academic field of religion and ecology -- The methodologies of religion and ecology -- Format of the book -- PART I: Religion and ecology: defining the terms -- 1. Religion: what is it, who gets to decide, and why does it matter? -- Five definitions of "religion" -- Why defining religion matters -- Studying religion inside and out -- Conclusion -- References -- Further reading -- 2. Case study: religion and the twenty-first century North American anti-extraction movement -- Discussion questions -- Note -- References -- Further reading -- 3. Ecology: what is it, who gets to decide, and why does it matter? -- Five questions about ecology -- How should religion respond to ecology? -- Religion and ecology -- Conclusion -- References -- Further reading -- 4. Case study: religion and disaster: the Merapi volcano eruption -- Discussion questions -- References -- Further reading -- PART II: Mapping your location -- 5. Gender and queer studies -- Patriarchy: a brief history -- Feminist, ecofeminist, and queer challenges to patriarchy -- Religion, gender, and sexuality -- Nature is queer -- Challenging anthropocentrism with queer eyes -- Case study - the Radical Faeries: challenging human-human, human-earth relations -- Discussion questions -- Notes -- References -- Further reading -- 6. Race and ethnicity -- Introduction -- The nature-culture binary logic and its extension to race/ethnicity -- Rethinking race and racism -- Religious naturalism: conjoining ecology, race, and religion -- Religious naturalism and the racialization of nature. , Promises of religious naturalism: ethical considerations -- Case study - "Environmental justice: a grassroots movement anticipating religious naturalism" -- Discussion questions -- Notes -- References -- Further reading -- 7. The power of place -- Place matters -- Phenomenology: perceiving and experiencing place -- Bioregionalism: re-inhabiting place -- Cultural geography: power, difference, and global connections -- Religion, place, and the environment -- Case study - Stone Mountain: a sacred site, commodified and contested -- Discussion questions -- Notes -- References -- Further reading -- PART III: Key issues -- 8. Globalization -- The claims of globalization -- Globalization and nature -- Globalization and religion -- The globalization/religion/environment nexus in Latin America -- Case study: what's yours is mined -- Discussion questions -- Note -- References -- Further reading -- 9. Climate change -- What exactly is anthropocentric global warming? -- The role of ideas -- Framing climate change -- The gap between belief and action -- Case study -- Discussion questions -- Notes -- References -- Further reading -- 10. Food -- What are GMOs and what's the fuss all about? -- Narrative realms and rhetorical analysis -- Frankenfoods and runaway genes -- Religious and theological perspectives -- Playing God: risk, ethics, and theology -- Perceptions of risk and the precautionary principle -- Livelihood, social justice, and culture: criteria in practice - evaluating GMOs -- Biopiracy, neo-colonialism, and culture -- Food democracy, justice, and science -- Conclusion -- Case study: the religious roots of GMO movements -- Discussion questions -- References -- Further reading -- 11. Animals -- Introduction -- Tradition-based approaches -- Recovery -- Reinterpretation, evolution, innovation -- Thinking animals, rethinking religion. , New directions in animals and religion: Jacques Derrida and Aaron Gross -- Case study: creation stories and views of animals -- Discussion questions -- Notes -- References -- Further reading -- 12. Technology -- What is technology? -- The insufficiency of the instrumental view -- Controlling nature -- Escaping nature -- The end of nature? -- The limits of technology -- Case study -- Discussion questions -- References -- Further reading -- 13. Justice -- The reality of environmental injustice: two examples -- The environmental justice movement: mitigating the human cost of environmental problems -- The ideal of eco-justice: imagining a global ethic -- Distinguishing environmental justice and eco-justice -- Synthesizing eco-justice and environmental justice -- Case study -- Discussion questions -- Notes -- References -- Further reading -- 14. Sustainability -- History of sustainability ideas -- The idea of sustainability -- Three models of sustainability -- Economic models of sustainability -- Ecological models of sustainability -- Political models of sustainability -- Conclusion -- Case study: the Misali Ethics Project5 -- Discussion questions -- Notes -- References -- Further reading -- 15. Economics -- Economics: what is it, who gets to decide, and why does it matter? -- Religion and economics -- Ecology and economics -- Religion, ecology, and economics -- Case study: Food Not Bombs -- Discussion questions -- Notes -- References -- Further reading -- 16. Conclusion: despair, hope, and action -- Working with despair -- Hope in place -- The boldness to hope for the earth -- Balancing hope and despair -- References -- Index.

Note: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of maps -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The problem with knowing the answer -- Background and assumptions -- Four uncertainties in environmental ethics -- Justice -- Interconnectedness -- Urgency -- Wonder -- Climate mitigation, climate adaptation, and climate engineering -- Uncertainty in tough political times -- Notes -- 1. Ethical action in an ambiguous world -- The planetary abject: undoing identities -- Technologies of unknowing in religious traditions -- The pace of ambiguity -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 2. The depths of ambiguity: Ethical pluralism and wonder in Marjory Stoneman Douglas and Rachel Carson -- Wicked problems and the blindspots of certainty -- Marjory Stoneman Douglas: multiperspectivalism in environmental ethics -- Rachel Carson: wonder, humility, and sea ethics -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 3. Good and evil without progress -- Naming the problem: climate change as a network of environmental challenges -- Charging towards the solution: climate change without certainty -- Toward a participatory environmental ethics -- An ethics of ambiguity: process over progress -- Conclusion: ethics at the end of the world -- Notes -- 4. Complexity in action: The challenging uncertainties of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X -- Called to action: responding to real injustices -- Dreams and nightmares: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the precariousness of progress -- Learning from King: contemporary environmentalism at the pace of ambiguity -- The challenge of the truth: Malcolm X and the rhetoric of critical opposition -- Learning from X: toward a critically oppositional environmentalism -- Divergent paths and uncertain legacies -- Notes -- 5. Loving the world without certainty -- What are we loving when we love the world? -- Love, knowledge, and unknowing. , An irreverent lover in a diverse world -- Love of the unknown -- Notes -- 6. The dangers of building without ambiguity: Spirituality and utopianism in Frank Lloyd Wright -- The philosophy and religion of Frank Lloyd Wright -- Organic architecture -- Nature and the city: the emergence of the suburban -- Loving garbage -- Notes -- 7. Concluding ideas on ambiguous time -- The anxiety of chronological time and the bubbling present -- Becoming uneasy -- Learning from the undercommons -- Thinking un-apocalyptically -- The universality of imperfection -- Environmental ethics in uncommon times -- Notes -- 8. Concluding practices for an uncertain stand: Fracking, protesting, and engineering the climate -- The uncertainties of fracking -- Why fracking is a bad idea -- Why not fracking might be a bad idea, too -- Climate protests -- Why not protesting would be a bad idea -- Why protesting might be a bad idea -- Climate engineering -- Why engineering the climate is a bad idea -- Why not engineering the climate might be a bad idea -- Ambiguous decisions -- Notes -- References -- Index.