About Island Press -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Our Journey into Religion and Ecology -- 1. Problems and Promise of Religions: Limiting and Liberating -- 2. The Nature of Religious Ecology: Orienting, Grounding, Nurturing, Transforming -- 3. Religious Ecology and Views of Nature in the West -- 4. Ecology, Conservation, and Ethics -- 5. Emergence of the Field of Religion and Ecology -- 6. Christianity as Orienting to the Cosmos -- 7. Confucianism as Grounding in Community -- 8. Indigenous Traditions and the Nurturing Powers of Nature -- 9. Hinduism and the Transforming Affect of Devotion -- 10. Building on Interreligious Dialogue: Toward a Global Ethics -- Epilogue. Challenges Ahead: Creating Ecological Cultures -- Questions for Discussion -- Glossary -- Appendix A: Common Declaration of Pope John Paul II and the Ecumenical Patriarch His Holiness Bartholomew I -- Appendix B: Influence of Traditional Chinese Wisdom of Eco Care on Westerners -- Appendix C: Selections from the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, 2007 -- Appendix D: Save the Fraser Declaration -- Appendix E: Yamuna River Declaration Resulting from the Workshop "Yamuna River: A Confluence of Waters, a Crisis of Need" -- Appendix F: The Earth Charter, 2000 -- Appendix G: Online Resources for Religious Ecology -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Board of Directors.