About this Book

Introduction /​ Carol J. Adams PART 1. Revisioning religion. 1. Ecofeminism: symbolic and social connections of the oppression of women and the domination of nature /​ Rosemary Radford Ruether 2. Sin, nature, and Black women's bodies /​ Delores S. Williams 3. Talk about the weather: the greening of eschatology /​ Catherine Keller 4. Acting with compassion: Buddhism, feminism, and the environmental crisis /​ Stephanie Kaza 5. Feminist Judaism and repair of the world /​ Judith Plaskow 6. An earthly theological agenda /​ Sallie McFague 7. Ganga: purity, pollution, and Hinduism /​ Lina Gupta PART 2. Envisioning ecofeminism. 8. A feminist philosophical perspective on ecofeminist spiritualities /​ Karen J. Warren 9. Ecofeminist consciousness and the transforming power of symbols /​ L. Teal Willoughby 10. The good mother: from Gaia to Gilead /​ Ellen Cronan Rose 11. For all those who were Indian in a former life /​ Andy Smith 12. Toward an ecofeminist ethic of Shamanism and the sacred /​ Gloria Feman Orenstein 13. Ecology is a sistah's issue too: the politics of emergent Afrocentric ecowomanism /​ Shamara Shantu Riley PART 3. Embodying ecofeminist spiritualities. 14. Animal, vegetable, and mineral: the sacred connection /​ Carol Lee Sanchez 15. Nuclear power and the sacred: or why a beautiful woman is like a nuclear power plant /​ Jane Caputi 16. New moon over Roxbury: reflections on urban life and the land /​ Rebecca Johnson 17. Earthbody and personal body as sacred /​ Charlene Spretnak 18. Natural resources: a conversation between Byllye Avery and Mary E. Hunt 19. Taking life or "taking on life"? Table talk and animals /​ Carol J. Adams, Marjorie Procter-Smith 20. Ecofeminist education: adolescence, activism, and spirituality /​ Zoe Weil.