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    RESOURCES

    Please find below a growing list of books, videos, and website links to help you prepare and continue your studies.  If you have additional resources you would like to suggested, please email us via info@spiritualpaths.net, or join the online discussions on this topic.

    GENERAL BOOKS AND WEBSITES

    Wilson, Edward O. The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth
    Gardner, Gary. Inspiring Progress: Religions' Contributions to Sustainable Development, Worldwatch Institute, 2007
    David Abram, The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in the More than Human World (New York: Vintage Books, 1996). (Recommended by Mike McGinnis)


    CHRISTIANITY
    Bourgeault, Cynthia, Centering Prayer and Inner Awakening  
    Bourgeault, Cynthia, The Wisdom Way of Knowing: Reclaiming An Ancient Tradition to Awaken the Heart
    Bourgeault, Cynthia, Encountering the Wisdom Jesus
    Radford Ruether, Gaia and God: An Ecofeminist Theology of Earth Healing (San Francisco: Harper, 1992)
    Berry, Wendell. "Christianity and the Survival of Creation." In Sex, Economy, Freedom, and Community: Eight Essays, ed. Wendell Berry, 93–116. New York: Pantheon, 1993.
    DeWitt, Calvin B. Caring for Creation: Responsible Stewardship of God's Handiwork. eds. James W. Skillen and Luis E. Lugo. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Books, 1998.
    Hessel, Dieter T. and Rosemary Radford Ruether, eds. Christianity and Ecology: Seeking the Well-being of Earth and Humans. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Center for the Study of World Religions/Harvard University Press, 2000.
    McKibben, Bill. The Comforting Whirlwind: God, Job, and the Scale of Creation. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1994
    HINDUISM
    General Reading
    Vrajaprana, Pravrajika. Vedanta: A Simple Introduction. Hollywood: Vedanta Press, 1999.
    Prabhavananda, Swami and Christopher Isherwood. Song of God: The Bhagavad Gita. New York: New American Library, 2002.
     Prabhavananda, Swami and Christopher Isherwood. How to Know God: The Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali. Hollywood: Vedanta Press, 1996.
    Specialized Reading
    Chapple, Christopher Key and Mary Evelyn Tucker, eds. Hinduism and Ecology: The Intersection of Earth, Sky and Water. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000.
    Nelson, Lance, ed. Purifying the Earthly Body of God: Religion and Ecology in Hindu India (New York: SUNY Press, 1998).
    Sohoni, Shrinivas S. Hymn to the Earth: The Prithvi Sukta. New Delhi: Sterling Publications Pvt Ltd., 1991.
    Websites
    Vedanta Society (www.vedanta.org)

    BUDDHISM
    Tucker, M.E. and D. R. Williams, editors. 1997. Buddhism and Ecology: The Interconnection of Dharma and Deeds. Harvard University Press, Cambridge.
    Wapola, Rahula. What the Buddha Taught
    Dalai Lama. The Universe in a Single Atom: The Convergence of Science and Spirituality
    Bhikkhu Nyanasobhano, Landscapes of Wonder: Discovering Buddhistg Dhamma in the World Around Us (Boston, Wisdom Publications, 1998)

    ISLAM & SUFISM
    (Recommended by Shaikh Kabir Helminski)
    Nasr, Dr. Seyyed Hossein,  Man and Nature: The Spiritual Crisis in Modern Man
    (This is a spiritual tour de force which explores the relationship between Man and Nature as found in Taoism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity and Islam, particularly its Sufi dimension.)
    Helminski, Camille, The Book of Nature, Spiritual Perspectives on Nature and the Environment
    (An anthology of great nature writing from around the world organized according to spiritual categories suggested by the Qur'an. (Copies will be available at the conference) )

    JUDAISM
    (Recommended by Rabbi Rami Shapiro)
    Benstein, Jeremy, The Way Into Judaism and the Environment, Jewish Lights 2006
    Bernstein, Ellen, Splendor of Creation: A Biblical Ecology, Pilgrim Press, 2005
    Bernstein, Ellen. Ecology & the Jewish Spirit: Where Nature and the Sacred Meet, Jewish Lights 2006
    Biers-Ariel, Matt Spirit in Nature: Teaching Judaism and Ecology on the Trail, Behrman 2000
    Blanchard, Tzvi, Judaism and Ecology, Jewish Lights 2003
    Green, Arthur. Torah of the Earth: Exploring 4,000 Years of Ecology in Jewish Thought, Volumes 1 & 2, Jewish Lights 2000



     

     


     

     

     

     
     
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