This thought-provoking volume unites bioethics experts from seven major world religionsBuddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Daoism, Hinduism, Islam, and Judaismalongside secular thinkers, to explore environmental protection through the lens of the UNESCO Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights.
This thought-provoking volume unites bioethics experts from seven major world religionsBuddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Daoism, Hinduism, Islam, and Judaismalongside secular thinkers, to explore environmental protection through the lens of the UNESCO Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights. It foregrounds the power of diverse perspectives in addressing one of humanity's most pressing challengesthe ecological crisis. The contributions provide rich and distinct religious and cultural viewpoints as they confront the anthropological, ethical, and social dimensions of this crisis. Showcasing dialogue where traditions and philosophies collide, they offer unique insights into global bioethics and human rights that should inspire new ways of thinking and foster meaningful collaboration in the fight for our planet's future. The book is valuable reading for researchers, scholars and students in bioethics, environmental ethics, religious studies and beyond.
Introduction
1. UNESCO, global bioethics, and the environment
2.
Integral Ecology, Natural Order & the Relational Self: Towards A Postsecular
Synthesis in a New Ecological Age?
3. Two Sides of the Same Coin: Global
Bioethics and Social Teaching of the Church in Convergence for a Sustainable
Development Environment PART 1: SECULAR PERSPECTIVES
4. The Principle of
Environmental Beneficence: towards an ethical principle for environmentally
sustainable medicine
5. Environmentally Sustainable Healthcare: Reflections
by a Christian Realist PART 2: MONOTHEISTIC TRADITIONS: ISLAM
6. Islam,
Biodiversity and Bioethic
7. A response to Luzita Ball from a Jewish point of
view PART 3: MONOTHEISTIC TRADITIONS: CHRISTIANITY
8. An Orthodox Christian
Ecological Ethic
9. Bioethics and environmental ethics: a historical
perspective on a missed opportunity. A response to Durante from a secular
perspective
10. Protestant Christianity and the Environment
11. Protestantism
and the Environment: A Buddhist Response PART 4: MONOTHEISTIC TRADITIONS:
JUDAISM
12. Jewish Environmental Ethics: A Proposal for Non-Anthropocentrism
13. Abrahamic and Indian Environmental Ethics PART 5: ASIAN TRADITIONS:
DAOISM
14. A Chinese Concept of Integral Ecology from a Daoist Perspective
15. Terms of Engagement: A Muslim Reflection on Human Ecology in Response to
Kwok and Lai PART 6: ASIAN TRADITIONS: CONFUCIANISM
16. Environmental
protection and obligations: A Confucian perspective
17. Catholic Thoughts on
a Confucian Perspective on the Environmental Crisis PART 7: ASIAN TRADITIONS:
BUDDHISM
18. A Construction of Environmental Ethics from a Buddhist
Perspective
19. The Buddhist Principle of Non-harm to Life (Ashima) in
Different Cultural Regions: A Confucian Response to Ellen Zhang
20. Buddhist
Perspectives on Bioethics: Interbeing, Ecodharma, and Ecosattva
21.Dialogue between Buddhism and Global Bioethics on Ecology PART 8: ASIAN
TRADITIONS: HINDUISM
22. Are there norms in the Indian Tradition regarding
the Environment? Hinduism as State Religion
23. Modernity, religion, and
India: weaving the threads of a complex historical process together
24.
Environment, Hinduism and the Words of Wisdom
25. Protecting the Environment,
the Biosphere, and Biodiversity: A Response to Prof. Kishore.
Joseph Tham teaches bioethics at Ateneo Pontificio Regina Apostolorum (Rome, Italy) and is the former Dean of the School of Bioethics. He is a Fellow of the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics and Human Rights.
Sameer Advani is the Director of the Christianity and Culture Program and Professor of Systematic Theology at Ateneo Pontificio Regina Apostolorum (Rome, Italy).
John Lunstroth is a Lecturer in the Medicine and Society Program at the University of Houston, USA and a Fellow of the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics and Human Rights (Rome, Italy).
