Religion and Sustainable Agriculture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Religion and Sustainable Agriculture write by Todd LeVasseur. This book was released on 2016-10-21. Religion and Sustainable Agriculture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Distinct practices of eating are at the heart of many of the world's faith traditions -- from the Christian Eucharist to Muslim customs of fasting during Ramadan to the vegetarianism and asceticism practiced by some followers of Hinduism and Buddhism. What we eat, how we eat, and whom we eat with can express our core values and religious devotion more clearly than verbal piety. In this wide-ranging collection, eminent scholars, theologians, activists, and lay farmers illuminate how religious beliefs influence and are influenced by the values and practices of sustainable agriculture. Together, they analyze a multitude of agricultural practices for their contributions to healthy, ethical living and environmental justice. Throughout, the contributors address current critical issues, including global trade agreements, indigenous rights to land and seed, and the effects of postcolonialism on farming and industry. Covering indigenous, Buddhist, Hindu, Christian, Muslim, and Jewish perspectives, this groundbreaking volume makes a significant contribution to the study of ethics and agriculture.
Religion and Agriculture
Religion and Agriculture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Religion and Agriculture write by J. Lindsay Falvey. This book was released on 2005. Religion and Agriculture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Religion is a powerful expression of culture that is most obviously expressed in our relationships with nature. As our major meeting point with nature is food, this provides a fertile field for cultivating the wisdom that Professor Falvey concludes is the essence of all sustainability. By bringing sustainability, agriculture, global issues, Buddhism, Christianity and a host of other factors into play, we see that our motivations belie our rhetoric -- in environmental actions through to trade and aid. This open-spirited book contains a wealth of analysis and alternative logics that make it essential to serious readers about nature, the environment, spirituality and religion, Asia and ourselves. Beginning with science and spirituality, the discussion moves from immortality to theology to literal misinterpretations and unifies these themes around unacknowledged Western core values. Shifting to philosophy, ethics, and rights, an ecological argument about our selective 'liberation' of nature is proffered as an introduction to global issues, including traditional values of poor countries and lost traditions in the West. An engrossing hybrid Oriental-Western dialectic allows chapters to be read alone or as part of an accumulating thesis. Thus Buddhist and Christian teachings are applied to agriculture and sustainability -- and they are found to be at one with each other. Whether it is biblical metaphor, karmic logic or enlightened self-interest, the continuous thread of a strong suture stitches a complex set of subjects into a coherent sutra that will vivify the current moribund dialogue between agriculture, science and religion. -- back cover.
Religious Agrarianism and the Return of Place
Religious Agrarianism and the Return of Place - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Religious Agrarianism and the Return of Place write by Todd Levasseur. This book was released on 2018-07-02. Religious Agrarianism and the Return of Place available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Examines religious communities as advocates of environmental stewardship and sustainable agriculture practices.
Food, Farming, and Faith
Food, Farming, and Faith - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Food, Farming, and Faith write by Gary W. Fick. This book was released on 2012-04-24. Food, Farming, and Faith available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Food, Farming, and Faith looks at agricultural sustainability and Christianity. Using scripture and science, Gary W. Fick—a Christian agricultural scientist—demonstrates that faith can inform decisions about creating, managing, even consuming our food. The book highlights such topics as food and celebration, environmental care, ecology and faith, soil and water stewardship, animal welfare, and the impact of poverty on women and our food supply. Throughout, Fick presents and discusses biblical passages that comment on these areas and provides insight from personal experiences growing up in a ranching family, in teaching sustainable agriculture, and as a scientist. Ultimately, Fick challenges the reader to think about eating more thoughtfully so that we have good food, a healthy environment, and a comfortable lifestyle all at the same time.
Sustainable Agriculture
Sustainable Agriculture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sustainable Agriculture write by Mark E. Graham. This book was released on 2009-07-01. Sustainable Agriculture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book . . . is an invitation to all Christians to begin constructing a food ethics; to the academic Christian ethicist, it presents an opportunity to join a discussion on a topic relevant in so many ways to the life of every American; to the Christian for whom the spark of the divine is detectable in the everyday life, it is a chance to begin making ethical sense out of something done every day for the entirety of one's natural life-participating in agriculture. -from the Introduction In Sustainable Agriculture, Mark Graham joins the vibrant, substantive discussion about the moral issues in American agriculture by revealing what is going on in current agricultural practices and analyzing them in light of morality and sustainability. Graham's constructive proposal for change is based on a moral vision that identifies a group of core values around which our agricultural system should be developed, including: a) a consistent, safe food supply; b) vital, sustainable communities; and c) personal and environmental health.
