Confucianism and Ecology Paperback by Mary Evelyn Tucker

Product Details

• Publisher: Harvard University Press (1998-08-18)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 428 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780945454168
• Item Weight: 368.55 grams
• Dimensions: 0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0 cm

Confucianism demonstrates a remarkable wealth of resources for rethinking human-earth relations. This second volume in the series on religions of the world and the environment includes sixteen essays that address the ecological crisis and the question of Confucianism from three perspectives: the historical describes this East Asian tradition's views of nature, social ethics, and cosmology, which may shed light on contemporary problems; a dialogical approach links Confucianism to other philosophic and religious traditions; an examination of engaged Confucianism looks at its involvement in concrete ecological issues.

About the Author

Mary Evelyn Tucker is Senior Lecturer, Yale Divinity School.

John Berthrong is Associate Dean for Academic and Administrative Affairs, Boston University School of Theology.

Peter K. Bol is Charles H. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University.

William Theodore de Bary was John Mitchell Mason Professor of the University, Emeritus, and Provost Emeritus at Columbia University.

Tu Wei-ming is Director of the Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies, Peking University, and Harvard-Yenching Professor of Chinese History and Philosophy and of Confucian Studies, Emeritus, Harvard University. He directed the Harvard-Yenching Institute from 1996 to 2008.

Lawrence E. Sullivan is Emeritus Professor of Theology, University of Notre Dame, and former Director of the Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University.