Greening Philosophy of Religion

Jea Sophia Oh is professor of philosophy at West Chester University of Pennsylvania. John Quiring is adjunct instructor in philosophy at Victor Valley College and former program director at the Center for Process Studies.

• Foreword by John B. Cobb, Jr. Introduction: What is the Scope of Greening Philosophy of Religion? by Jea Sophia Oh and John QuiringPart I: Process Ecological Philosophy of Religion Chapter 1: Gridlock and Depolarization in Philosophy of Religion and Political Ecology by John Quiring Chapter 2: Trees of Life: Rhizomatic vs. Arboreal Ecotheosis by Roland Faber Chapter 3: A Place for Ecological Democracy in Whitehead’s Philosophy of Religious Entanglements by Sam MickeyPart II: Concepts of Religion and Nature in Process ThoughtChapter 4: Charles Hartshorne, the New Atheism, and Dipolar Theism's Green Hue by Donald Wayne VineyChapter 5: Process Thought and Naturalism by Les MurayChapter 6: Transforming Axial Paradigms in Seizing an Ecological Civilization by Anand VeerarajPart III: Comparative Philosophies and Ecoaesthetic Process Chapter 7: One Good Turn Serves Another: Comparative Philosophy as Companion to a ‘Greening’ of Philosophy of Religion by Robert SmidChapter 8: Ecoaesthetic Individuality: Some Confucian Reflections on a Deweyan Theme in Facing the Climate Catastrophe by Joseph E. HarroffPart IV: Imagining Process Sustainable EthicsChapter 9: Imagining a Greener Social Union: Moving beyond Fear to an Ethic of Trust by Sheela PawarChapter 10: A Process Ethic of Sustainable “Robbery”: A Comparative Philosophy of Seeds by Jea Sophia Oh

Greening Philosophy of Religion: Process, Ecology, and Ethics is a welcome collection of essays that moves in two directions. Either, they start with problems in philosophy of religion (or theology) and move toward the problems treated in environmental ethics, or they start with topics in environmental ethics and explore the philosophical/theological dimensions of these problems that are usually left in an implicit state. Further, the processual character of these two movements is explicated in several illuminating ways. Ecophilosophers, ecotheologians, and those who are taken by the spiritual dimensions of nature and naturalism will all benefit from this book.