Multicultural and Religious Perspectives on Protecting the Environment, the Biosphere, and Biodiversity [Hardcover]

Introduction? 1. UNESCO, global bioethics, and the environment? 2. Integral Ecology, Natural Order & the Relational Self: Towards A Postsecular Synthesis in a New Ecological Age?? 3. Two Sides of the Same Coin: Global Bioethics and Social Teaching of the Church in Convergence for a Sustainable Development Environment??PART 1: SECULAR PERSPECTIVES??4. The Principle of Environmental Beneficence: towards an ethical principle for environmentally sustainable medicine? 5. Environmentally Sustainable Healthcare: Reflections by a Christian Realist??PART 2: MONOTHEISTIC TRADITIONS: ISLAM??6. Islam, Biodiversity and Bioethic? 7. A response to Luzita Ball from a Jewish point of view??PART 3: MONOTHEISTIC TRADITIONS: CHRISTIANITY??8. An Orthodox Christian Ecological Ethic? 9. Bioethics and environmental ethics: a historical perspective on a missed opportunity. A response to Durante from a secular perspective? 10. Protestant Christianity and the Environment? 11. Protestantism and the Environment: A Buddhist Response??PART 4: MONOTHEISTIC TRADITIONS: JUDAISM??12. Jewish Environmental Ethics: A Proposal for Non-Anthropocentrism? 13. Abrahamic and Indian Environmental Ethics??PART 5: ASIAN TRADITIONS: DAOISM??14. A Chinese Concept of Integral Ecology from a Daoist Perspective? 15. Terms of Engagement: A Muslim Reflection on Human Ecology in Response to Kwok and Lai??PART 6: ASIAN TRADITIONS: CONFUCIANISM??16. Environmental protection and obligations: A Confucian perspective? 17. Catholic Thoughts on a Confucian Perspective on the Environmental Crisis??PART 7: ASIAN TRADITIONS: BUDDHISM??18. A Construction of Environmental Ethics from a Buddhist Perspective? 19. The Buddhist Principle of Non-harm to Life (Ashima) in Different CullC�