Religion and Ecology in the Public Sphere [Hardcover]

Acknowledgements/List of Contributors/Introduction, Celia Deane-Drummond and Heinrich Bedford Strohm/The Baltic Sea as a Case Study: The Ecological and Political Challenges of the Baltic Sea, Erik Bonsdorff/Part I: Concepts of Religion in the Public Sphere/Chapter 1: Who Shall Speak for the Environment? Translating Religious, Scientific, Economic, and Political Regimes of Power and Knowledge in a Globalized Society, Peter Beyer/Chapter 2: Public Theology of Ecology and Civil Society, Heinrich Bedford-Strohm/Chapter 3: Right Out of Time? Politics and Nature in a Postnatural Condition, Peter Manley Scott/Chapter 4: Climate Change and the (Economic) Value of Nature - The Role of Economic Thinking in the Public Sphere, Hans Diefenbacher/Part II: Contextual Approaches/Chapter 5: Latin American Liberation Theologians's Turn to Eco(theo)logy - Critical Remarks,
Elina Vuola/Chapter 6: Geology vs. Theology? Uranium Prospecting and Theological Arguments in Northern Carelia 2006-2009, Pauliina Kainulainen/
Chapter 7: Towards An African Inculturated Sophiology: The Case of African Wisdom Tradition from Myths for Ecological Concerns, Loreen Maseno/Part III: Towards Public Theologies of Nature/Chapter 8: Environmental Amnesia or the Memory of Place?The Need for Local Ethics of Memory in a Philosophical Theology of Place, Forrest Clingerman/Chapter 9: Public Theology as a Substantial Contribution to an Ecumenical and Ecological Culture, Daniel Munteanu/Chapter 10: Public Theology as Contested Ground: Arguments for Climate Justice, Celia Deane-Drummond/Bibliography/Index

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