Integral Ecology for a More Sustainable World

Dennis O&#039;Hara; Matthew Eaton; Michael T. Ross

doi:10.5771/9781498580069

Summary

Laudato Si’ insists on a revolutionary human response to the public challenges of our time concerning the ecological crisis. The volume takes up the revolutionary spirit of Pope Francis and speaks to the economic, technological, political, educational, and religious changes needed to overcome the fragile relationships between humans and Earth. This volume identifies various systemic factors that have produced the anthropogenic ecological crisis that threatens the planet and uses the ethical vision of Laudato Si’ to promote practical responses that foster fundamental changes in humanity’s relationships with Earth and each other. The essays address not only the immediate behavioral changes needed in individual human lives, but also the deeper, societal changes required if human communities are to live sustainable lives within Earth’s integral ecology. Thus, this volume intentionally focuses on a plurality of cultural contexts and proposes solutions to problems encountered in a variety of global contexts. Accordingly, the contributors to this volume are scholars from a breadth of interdisciplinary and cultural backgrounds, each exploring an ethical theme from the encyclical and proposing systemic changes to address deeply entrenched injustices. Collectively, their essays examine the social, political, economic, gender, scientific, technological, educational, and spiritual challenges of our time as these relate to the ecological crisis.

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Copyright year: 2019
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4985-8005-2
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4985-8006-9
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 390
Product type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
2. Preface No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 10
1. 1. Locating Laudato Si’ within Catholic Social Thought No access
  2. Social Analysis and Political Engagement in Catholic Social Teaching No access
  3. Ecological Conversion: Personal, Social, and Political Transformation No access
  4. Notes No access
  5. Bibliography No access
2. 1. Tackling Climate Change and Pollution Head-on No access
  2. Responses from the Scientific Community No access
  3. Papal Ambivalence Regarding Science No access
  4. Resonances of Laudato Si’ with Pioneering Environmental Scientists No access
  5. Pope as an Integral Ecologist No access
  6. Conclusion No access
  7. Notes No access
  8. Bibliography No access
1. 1. Neutrality and Growth No access
  2. Laudato Si’ and an Ecological Economy No access
  3. Conclusion No access
  4. Notes No access
  5. Bibliography No access
2. 1. Joined-Up Social Ethics: An “Integral Ecology” No access
  2. Walking the Walk as Well as Talking the Talk: Joined-Up Social Ethics Means Joined-Up Social Praxis No access
  3. Uncompromising Social Ethics Grounded on the Gospel No access
  4. The Bottom Line: Moral and Social Leadership for a World in Need No access
  5. Notes No access
  6. Bibliography No access
3. 1. Hyperagency No access
  2. Theological Responses to Hyperagency No access
  3. Ecological Virtues for Hyperagents No access
  4. Conclusion No access
  5. Notes No access
  6. Bibliography No access
4. 1. The Peril of Agriculture No access
  2. A Way Forward? No access
  3. Conclusion No access
  4. Notes No access
  5. Bibliography No access
1. 1. Weaving the Brown Thread: Toward Integral Ecology No access
  2. St. Bonaventure of Bagnoregio On the Reduction of the Arts to Theology No access
  3. Notes No access
  4. Bibliography No access
2. 1. Laudato Si’ ’s Call to Ecological Conversion No access
  2. Lonergan on Conversion No access
  3. Ormerod and Vanin: Ecological Conversion No access
  4. An Ecofeminist Interpretation of Ecological Conversion No access
  5. Conclusion No access
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3. 1. Accepting an Evolutionary Cosmology No access
  2. Conclusion No access
  3. Notes No access
  4. Bibliography No access
4. 1. The Trajectory of Concern Leading Up to Laudato Si’12 No access
  2. Pope Francis and Laudato Si’ No access
  3. Where We Might Go from Here No access
  4. Notes No access
  5. Bibliography No access
1. 1. Galileo No access
  2. The New Style of Science No access
  3. Science, the Church, and the Specola Vaticana No access
  4. Laudato Si’ No access
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2. 1. Science, Ecology, and Theology No access
  2. How Did the Universe Die? No access
  3. Beyond Scientism and Materialism No access
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3. 1. Laudato Si’ and the Technocratic Paradigm No access
  2. Gibson Winter and Root Metaphors No access
  3. Robert Doran and a Cultural Dialectic No access
  4. The Cultural Roots of the Ecological Crisis and Its Remedy No access
  5. Conclusion No access
  6. Notes No access
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4. 1. The Internet No access
  2. Google No access
  3. The Technocratic Paradigm at Google No access
  4. Two Principles to Act Against the Technocratic Paradigm No access
  5. Conclusion No access
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1. 1. Ecological Citizenship No access
  2. Habitus No access
  3. Contemporary Understandings of Habitus No access
  4. Notes No access
  5. Bibliography No access
2. 1. Environmental Frameworks in Relation to Smart Growth No access
  2. Analysis of Frameworks No access
  3. Insights from Laudato Si’ for Smart Growth and Racial Justice No access
  4. Critiques of Laudato Si’ for Smart Growth and Racial Justice No access
  5. Conclusion No access
  6. Notes No access
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3. 1. A Background on Energy in South Africa No access
  2. Resistance to Nuclear Energy No access
  3. The Nuclear Court Case No access
  4. Laudato Si’ and Nuclear Energy No access
  5. Taking Action: Resisting Nuclear Energy and Promoting Integral Development No access
  6. Conclusion No access
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  8. Bibliography No access
4. 1. Population in Laudato Si’ and its Sources No access
  2. Dialogue and Hints of Change No access
  3. Development and Demographics—What the Experts Say No access
  4. Common Ground: Responsible Parenthood No access
  5. “Changing Historical Situations” No access
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1. 1. Far Beyond Responding to the Bell: Transformative Education and Laudato Si’ in Conversation No access
  2. Fostering Integral Ecology through Education No access
  3. Telling and Teaching History in Support of Integral Ecology No access
  4. Conclusion: Education as a Nexus for Cooperation to Care for our Common Home No access
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2. 1. Laudato Si’: The Pope, the Patriarch, and the Liturgy No access
  2. Laudato Si’ and a Theology of Liturgical Ecology No access
  3. Laudato Si: The Ecological Imperative of the Liturgy No access
  4. The Liturgical Imperative: Saying “Amen” No access
  5. Notes No access
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3. 1. Global Warming and Religion No access
  2. Predictors of Catholic Global Warming Risk Perception and Policy Support No access
  3. Conclusion No access
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1. Laudato Si’ and the Fate of Earth No access
2. Ecocide as Deicide No access
3. Eschatological Lamentation and the Possibility of Hope No access
4. Notes No access
5. Bibliography No access
Index No access Pages 373 - 380
About the Editors No access Pages 381 - 382
About the Contributors No access Pages 383 - 390