Religion and Ecological Crisis

Mette Halskov Hansen is Professor of China Studies at the University of Oslo, Norway.Kenneth Bo Nielsen is Associate Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo, Norway, where he also heads the Centre for South Asian Democracy.

• Acknowledgments About the Authors Introduction. Religion and Ecological Crisis: Responses from Asia - Mette Halskov Hansen and Kenneth Bo Nielsen Chapter 1. Enlisting the Divine Farmer, Shennong: Spirituality, Science and Environmentalism in Taiwan - Koen Wellens and Mette Halskov Hansen Chapter 2. Yogic Ecology? Spirituality, Science, and Pseudoscience in Indian Agroecological Movements for Soil Health - Daniel Münster Chapter 3. Ecopractices, Self-realization, and Interpretations of Tradition in a Chinese Ecovillage - Wengkang Qian, Zhaohui Liu, and Rune Svarverud Chapter 4. Hòa Hảo Buddhism and the Target of Net-Zero Plastic Waste in the Mekong Delta - Nhung Lu Rots Chapter 5. Pragmatic Environmentalism: Sikhism and Grassroots Environmental Advocacy in North India - Aase Jeanette Kvanneid Chapter 6. "Purity at the Source": Tzu Chi's Organizational and Communal Storytelling about Recycling and Vegetarianism - Lu Chen and Hongtao Li Chapter 7. Agroecology as Christian Environmentalism in a Hindu Majoritarian Context - Kenneth Bo Nielsen and Nihar Gokhale Chapter 8. The Purest Food: Cowmilk, Transcendent Claims, and Ecological Sustainability in India - Amita Baviskar Chapter 9. Ecologies of Gods and States: Theogenic Soils and Forests in the Blang Mountains, China - Daniel Mohseni Kabir Bäckström Afterword: The Jury Is Still Out - Robert Weller Index