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Title Purifying the earthly body of God : religion and ecology in Hindu India / edited by Lance E. Nelson
Published Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, ©1998

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 366 pages)
Series SUNY series in religious studies
SUNY series in religious studies.
Contents Toward an indigenous Indian environmentalism / Christopher Key Chapple -- Ecological implications of karma theory / Harold Coward -- Attitudes to nature in the early Upaniṣads / Arvind Sharma -- Dualism of nondualism : Advaita Vedānta and the irrelevance of nature / Lance E. Nelson -- Sacred immanence : reflections of ecofeminism in Hindu Tantra / Rita DasGupta Sherma -- Models and images for a Vaiṣṇava environmental theology : the potential contribution of Śrīvaiṣṇavism / Patricia Y. Mumme -- Sin and rain : moral ecology in rural north India / Ann Grodzins Gold -- On the ethics and aesthetics of recycling in India / Frank J. Korom -- Learning the story of the land : reflections on the liberating power of geography and pilgrimage in the Hindu tradition / David Kinsley -- Theology and ecology at the birthplace of Kṛṣṇa / Bruce M. Sullivan -- Earth as goddess Bhū Devī : toward a theory of "embedded ecologies" in folk Hinduism / Vijaya Rettakudi Nagarajan -- Idioms of degeneracy : assessing Gaṅga's purity and pollution / Kelly D. Alley
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Human ecology -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Hinduism -- Doctrines.
Human ecology -- India
RELIGION -- Hinduism -- General.
Hinduism -- Doctrines.
Human ecology -- India.
Human ecology -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Hinduism -- Doctrines
Human ecology
Human ecology -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism
India
Form Electronic book
Author Nelson, Lance E., 1947-
LC no. 97050608
ISBN 0585059659
9780585059655
9780791439234
0791439232
9780791439241
0791439240
1438414382
9781438414386