Troubled Waters: Religion, Ethics, and the Global Water CrisisWater--although it covers more than two-thirds of the earth's surface, clean, potable water is in critically short supply. As more and more people globally show greater interest in what their religious traditions say about our natural world, Troubled Waters: Religion, Ethics, and the Global Water Crisis examines the central role of water in various traditions and rituals, arriving at creative new ways to approach the growing water crisis worldwide. Chamberlain outlines many of the current water problems and lays out clear principles for action that engaged citizens from various traditions can undertake to meet the growing water challenges through conservation and water management policies. The book describes many religious practices from around the world that help sustain and restore water by using new technologies and reviving old ones. Offering creative suggestions for both personal practices and group action, Chamberlain advocates conservation, preservation, and restoration of our troubled waters. |
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A Tenuous Relationship Human Need and Water Resources | 93 |
Water Management Privatization Problems and Resistance | 115 |
Rights to Water and a New Water Ethic | 131 |
I Like Fountain Flow Religion Revisited | 155 |
Where Do We Go from Here? | 177 |
Selected Bibliography | 199 |
Web Resources | 211 |
Index | 215 |
About the Author | 227 |
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Página 139 - The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.
Página 146 - A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.
Página 1 - Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean. Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.
Página 12 - Geertz's famous definition of religion as a cultural system: religion is "a system of symbols which acts to establish powerful, pervasive, and longlasting moods and motivations in men by formulating conceptions of a general order of existence and clothing these conceptions with such an aura of /actuality that the moods and motivations seem uniquely realistic" (italics added).80 Geertz's definition can be challenged in at least three ways.
Página 134 - To halve, by the year 2015, the proportion of the world's people whose income is less than one dollar a day and the proportion of people who suffer from hunger and, by the same date, to halve the proportion of people who are unable to reach or to afford safe drinking water.
Página 40 - God made the vault, and separated the water under the vault from the water above it, and so it was; and God called the vault heaven. Evening came, and morning came, a second day. God said, "Let the waters under heaven be gathered into one place, so that dry land may appear"; and so it was. God called the dry land earth, and the gathering of the waters he called seas; and God saw that it was good.
Página 44 - To a Christian a tree can be no more than a physical fact. The whole concept of the sacred grove is alien to Christianity and to the ethos of the West. For nearly two millennia Christian missionaries have been chopping down sacred groves, which are idolatrous because they assume spirit in nature.
Página 25 - Heaven is my father and Earth is my mother, and even such a small creature as I finds an intimate place in their midst. Therefore that which fills the universe I regard as my body and that which directs the universe I regard as my nature. All people are my brothers and sisters, and all things are my companions.
Página 40 - In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth; Now the earth was a formless void, there was darkness over the deep, and God's spirit hovered over the water.
Informações bibliográficas
| Título | Troubled Waters: Religion, Ethics, and the Global Water Crisis |
| Autor | Gary Chamberlain |
| Editora | Rowman & Littlefield, 2008 |
| ISBN | 0742552454, 9780742552456 |
| Num. págs. | 227 páginas |
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