Protecting Nature, Saving Creation

Protecting Nature, Saving Creation

Edited by Pasquale Gagliardi, Anne Marie Reijnen and Philipp Valentini

Palgrave Macmillan, New York 2013

This book is drawn out of a “Dialogue”, held in Venice at the Fondazione Cini in September 2010, aimed at exploring the relationship between ecology and theology. The meeting involved experts from different disciplines (theologians, anthropologists, ecologists, economists, philosophers and historians), sharing the awareness that the gamut of passions mobilised by ecology so far has not reached the level or intensity required for the huge task facing humanity today concerning the fate of the Earth. Can religions help us tackle the ecological crisis we are now facing? Can we redefine our relationship with the Earth, giving spiritual depth to ecological issues? How to mobilise the notions, cosmologies and rituals characterising some religious traditions without overlooking the conflicts underlying the ecological debate and the essential role of politics?