Jainism and ecology : nonviolence in the web of life /

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Chapple, Christopher Key
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, MA : Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard Divinity School : distributed by Harvard University Press, c2002.
Subjects:
Human ecology > Religious aspects > Jainism
Jainism > Doctrines.
Environmental ethics.
Online Access:http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy033/2002023800.html
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: I. Jain Theories about the Nature of the Universe
  • The Jain Worldview and Ecology
  • Nathmal Tatia 3
  • Jain Ecological Perspectives
  • John M. Koller 19
  • The Nature of Nature: Jain Perspectives on the
  • Natural World
  • Kristi L. Wiley 35
  • II. Challenges to the Possibility of a Jain Environmental Ethic
  • Green Jainism? Notes and Queries toward a Possible Jain
  • Environmental Ethic
  • John E. Cort 63
  • The Limits of a Jain Environmental Ethic
  • Paul Dundas 95
  • The Living Earth of Jainism and the New Story:
  • Rediscovering and Reclaiming a Functional Cosmology
  • Christopher Key Chapple 119
  • Ecology, Economics, and Development in Jainism
  • Padmanabh S. Jaini 141
  • III. Voices within the Tradition: Jainism Is Ecological
  • The Environmental and Ecological Teachings of Tirthaikara Mahavira
  • Sadhvi Shilapi 159
  • Ecology and Spirituality in the Jain Tradition
  • Bhagchandra Jain 'Bhaskar' 169
  • Jain Ecology
  • Satish Kumar 181
  • IV. Tradition and Modernity: Can Jainism Meet the Environmental Challenge?
  • From Liberation to Ecology: Ethical Discourses among Orthodox and Diaspora Jains
  • Anne Vallely 193
  • Appendix:
  • The Jain Declaration on Nature
  • L. M. Singhvi 217.

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