Ecologies of human flourishing / edited by Donald K. Swearer and Susan Lloyd McGarry.

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Language
English
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Cambridge, Mass. : Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard Divinity School : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2011.
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xvi, 214 p. ; 22 cm.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • Introduction : an ecology of human flourishing / Donald K. Swearer
  • Does Thoreau have a future? : reimagining voluntary simplicity for the twenty-first century / Lawrence Buell
  • Response. Voluntary simplicity : Thoreau and Gandhi / Diana Eck
  • Ecologies of human flourishing : a case from precolonial South India / Anne E. Monius
  • Response. Love and longing in the time of rain / Archana Venkatesan
  • Religious values and global health / Arthur Kleinman and Bridget Hanna
  • Response. Personal efficacy and moral engagement in global health / Paul Farmer
  • A world in crisis : the relevance of spiritual-moral principles / Chandra Muzaffar
  • Response. Practice and power / Ronald F. Thiemann
  • Cities, climate change, and Christianity : religion and sustainable urbanism / Sallie McFague
  • Response. An ethic of the ordinary / David C. Lamberth
  • Human flourishing depends on what we do now / Bill McKibben
  • Response. Hope and the climate scientist / Daniel P. Schrag
  • Flourishing and its enemies : the ideology of self-interest as self-fulfilling / Barry Schwartz.
ISBN
  • 9780945454458 (alk. paper)
  • 0945454457 (alk. paper)
LCCN
2011023814
OCLC
555660603
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