Religion and Ecology in the Public Sphere

Professor Heinrich Bedford-Strohm ist Professor in Systematic Theology and Director of the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Research Centre for Public Theology, University of Bamberg, Germany. Professor Celia Deane-Drummond is Director of the Centre for Religion and the Biosciences at the University of Chester, UK.

• Editors' Introduction; The Baltic Sea as Case Study: The Ecological and Political Challenges of the Baltic Sea; Who Shall Speak for the Environment?; Right out of Time? Politics and Nature in a Postnatural Condition; Climate Change and The Economic Value of Nature; Latin American Liberation Theologians' Turn to Eco-Theology; Geology vs. Theology? Uranium prospecting and theological arguments in Northern Carelia; Toward and African Inculturated Christology; Environmental Amnesia or the Memory of Place? The Need for Local Ethics of Memory in a Philosophical Theology of Place; Public Theology as Eco-Theology. An Ecumenical Approach; Public Theology as Contested Ground: Theological Arguments for Climate Justice.

"'Ecology and Environment are among the most demanding global challenges of our era. It is time to mobilize the best religious and cultural energies of humankind to address this issue' - Wolfgang Huber, Presiding Bishop em. of the Protestant Church in Germany."