A Pragmatic Approach to Religion And Sustainability

This volume outlines various religious practices followed across the global south and highlights their correlation to sustainability. It features more than 30 chapters from scholars across diverse disciplines, including philosophy, economics, ethics, theology, sociology, ritual studies, and education. The interdisciplinary volume mines religious rituals and practices for answers that could aid and alleviate unsustainable lifestyles. Delving deep into the cultural practices of tribal religions in India, the book highlights humanistic elements to establish sustainable ways of thinking, feeling, acting, and being. Including perspectives from Buddhism, Judaism, Hinduism, Christianity, and tribal religious traditions, this book is a must for scholars interested in sustainability and religion in the global south.

Auteur

Prof. Deepanjali Mishra earned her PhD in English from Utkal University, Bhubaneswar. Her Area of interest includes Folklore and Culture studies, Sociolinguistics, English Language Teaching, Management and Cybersecurity and Gender studies, and has over 17 years of teaching and research experience. Deepanjali Organised a National Workshop on Publishing Manuscript in 2019 and International Conference on "Incorporating Folklore studies in Management Practices" in Dec 2017. Her research titled, "A Method For Analyzing And Optimizing Violence Against Women On Social Networking Sites" has been granted patent rights by the Australian Government She has published two books titled 'I am a Woman' with Bahri Publishers New Delhi in 2017 and "Corporate Communication: an insight". She has also published an edited volume titled, "Science and Spiritualism for a Sustainable World" with IGI Global, Pennsylvania publishers in 2019 and "Corporate Communication- an insight" in 2019. Her book titled "Exploring Feminism through Shobha De's Novels" has recently been published. Her edited volume titled, "Learning How to Learn has been published with Springer LNET. She is the guest editor of Rupkatha, Research Chronicler, Literaria and Indian Journal of Communication. Apart from that she has organized two International Webinars on Interdisciplinary Perspectives of Digital Humanities in 2020 and 21. She has published more 30 research papers in reputed international journals and has presented her papers in various International conferences in India and abroad like IIT, IIM, BHU, South Korea, China and Nepal.

Jeffery D. Long is the Carl W. Zeigler Professor of Religion, Philosophy, and Asian Studies at Elizabethtown College, in Pennsylvania, where he has taught since receiving his doctoral degree from the University of Chicago Divinity School in the year 2000. In 2021, Elizabethtown College gave Dr. Long its Ranck Award for Research Excellence. In 2018, he received the Hindu American Foundation's Dharma Seva Award for his ongoing work to promote accurate, culturally sensitive portrayals of Indic traditions in the American education system and popular media. And in 2013, he gave the inaugural Virchand R. Gandhi Lecture in Jain Studies at Claremont University. He has spoken in a variety of prestigious venues, including the University of Chicago, Yale University, Princeton University, and the United Nations. Dr. Long has published numerous articles and is the author of several books, including Hinduism in America and Jainism: An Introduction, the editor of Perspectives on Reincarnation: Hindu, Christian, and Scientific, as well as the co-editor, with Christopher Miller and Michael Reading, of Beacons of Dharma and, with Michael Long, of Nonviolence in the World's Religions. He also co-edited the Buddhism and Jainism and Hinduism and Tribal Religions volumes of the Springer Encyclopedia of Indian Religions. He edits the series Explorations in IndicTraditions: Ethical, Philosophical, and Theological for Lexington Books.