Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Ecology and Hindu traditions 3. Ecology and modern India 4. Struggles for the forests 5. Ecology and Buddhism 6. Thailand: a case study 7. India since Independence 8. Signs of hope 9. Expanding our horizons
David L. Gosling trained as a nuclear physicist and more recently was the first Spalding Fellow in Religions at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, where he is currently based. He was Director of Church and Society at the World Council of Churches at the University of Geneva and has published widely on environmental issues in south Asia.
'This is a deep and intense book, written with empathy for
everything involved, and is of vital global, social significance.'
- Revd Mary Sellers, Church Times
'Gosling's work is clearly and passionately written, betraying
careful scholarship in science and religious studies. It should
help to clarify the role of religious traditions in increasing
ecological awareness, and, it is to be hoped, in promoting some
resolution of the social and environmental problems our world
faces' - Times Higher Education Supplement
'The book is a must in any serious library dealing with ecology in
India and Southeast Asia' - G. Gispert-Sauch, VJTR
'... a book which should allow Hinduism and Buddhism, and activists
from India and Thailand, to challenge those of us from "religions
of the book".' - Andrew Wingate, Theology
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