Author: Christopher Key Chapple
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 252
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8120820452
Description
In the struggle to sustain the earth’s environment as viable for future generation, environment studies have, thus far, left religion unprobed, in contrast to the emphasis given to science and technology.
Yet, no understanding of the environment is adequate without a grasp of the religious life that constitutes human societies.
As all encompassing, religious ideas not just content with other ideas as equals; they frame the mind set within which all sorts of ideas commingle in cosmology. Built on the premise that religions of the world maybe instrumental in addressing moral dilemmas created by environmental crisis, this book discusses Jain Cosmology, its Ethics and Worldview. The voices included reflect a wide spectrum of approaches.
This book in the S L Jain Research Series, intends to expand his discussion, inviting further collaboration on a topic of common concern-the fate of the Earth as a religious responsibility.
Contents
FOREWORD
Satya Ranjan Banerjee
INTRODUCTION
Christopher Key Chapple
1. Jain theories about the Nature of the Universe
2. Challenges to the Possibility of a Jain Environment Ethic
3. Voices within he Tradition: Jainism Is Ecological
4. Tradition and Modernity: Can Jainism Meet the Environmental Challenge?
APPENDIX:
The Jain Declaration on Nature
L M Singhvi
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX