Contents // Acknowledgements | ix // List of Contributors | xi // The Tensions and Promises of Religion and Ecology’s Past, // Present, and Future | 1 // Whitney A. Bauman, Richard R. Bohannon II, and Kevin J. O’Brien // Nature Religion and the Problem of Authenticity | 18 // Evan Berry // The Importance and Limits of Taking Science Seriously: Data and // Uncertainty in Religion and Ecology | 42 // Sarah E. Fredericks and Kevin J. O’Brien // What Traditions Are Represented in Religion and Ecology? A // Perspective from an American Scholar of Islam | 64 // Eleanor Finnegan // Opening the Language of Religion and Ecology: Viable Spaces for // Transformative Politics | 80 // Whitney A. Bauman // Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies in Religion and // Ecology: Where We Have Been, Where We Are Now, and Where // We Might Go I 102 // Tovis Page // Practically Natural: Religious Resources for Environmental // Pragmatism | 125 // Lucas F. Johnston and Samuel Snyder // viii Contents // 8 How Does It Feel to Be an Environmental Problem? Studying // Religion and Ecology in the African Diaspora | 148 // Elonda Clay // 9 Saving the World (and the People in It, Too): Religion in // Eco-Justice and Environmental Justice | 171 // Richard R. Bohannon II and Kevin J. O’Brien // 1 Q Religion and Ecology on the Ground: "Practice” and "Place” as // Key Concepts | 188 // Brian G. Campbell // 11 Religion and the Urban Environment | 211 // Richard R. Bohannon II // 1 2 The Buzzing,
Breathing, Clicking, Clacking, Biting, Stinging, // Chirping, Howling Landscape of Religious Studies | 230 // Gavin Van Horn ’ // Conclusion: The Territory Ahead | 251 // Whitney A. Bauman, Richard R. Bohannon II, and Kevin J. O’Brien // Index | 261