Ecological Imaginations in the World Religions

The field of religion and ecology is an emerging and growing movement that is becoming relevant and influential in the world. It seeks to analyse encourage inspire use compare and combine religious traditions to engage and shape environmental issues. Tony Watling seeks to ethnographically analyse this important field and its expressions. In particular he analyses and compares its explorations of different world religions for ecological themes and the resulting expressions of ecological visions in what he terms 'religious ecotopias' - idealized environmentally-friendly re-imaginings of nature and humanity and correspondingly religion which seek to influence environmental attitudes.