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Earth Ethics, James Martin-Schramm, Daniel Spencer, Laura A. Stivers Nov 2015

Earth Ethics, James Martin-Schramm, Daniel Spencer, Laura A. Stivers

Laura Stivers

A thoroughly revised and updated edition of Christian Environmental Ethics: A Case Method Approach, this volume introduces new topics in environmental ethics, including hydraulic fracturing, greenhouse gases, food consumption, and resource stewardship, and revisits traditional topics in environmental ethics, while expanding beyond a specifically Christian hermeneutic. ~ Amazon.com

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Earth-Honoring Faith: Religious Ethics In A New Key By Larry Rasmussen, Laura Stivers Oct 2015

Earth-Honoring Faith: Religious Ethics In A New Key By Larry Rasmussen, Laura Stivers

Laura Stivers

Larry Rasmussen’s new book, Earth-Honoring Faith: Religious Ethics in a New Key, like his last environmental ethics masterpiece Earth Community Earth Ethics (won the 1997 Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion), is eloquently written and incorporates a multitude of interdisciplinary sources to argue for Creation justice.

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To Be Or Not To Be A Vegetarian, Laura Stivers Oct 2014

To Be Or Not To Be A Vegetarian, Laura Stivers

Laura Stivers

Teaching Goals: To explore personal integrity in environmental ethics. To understand the connection between environmental destruction and meat eating. To explore attitudes towards nature and nonhuman animals and the interconnections with attitudes towards various human animals. To explore the differences between individual and holistic ecocentrism. To explore how theology informs the question of whether to be vegetarian.

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Solidarity Ethics: Transformation In A Globalized World. By Rebecca Todd Peters [Review], Laura Stivers Apr 2014

Solidarity Ethics: Transformation In A Globalized World. By Rebecca Todd Peters [Review], Laura Stivers

Laura Stivers

{2] Rebecca Todd Peters writes from her personal experience of metanoia, or seeing with new eyes, when at the age of twenty-four she attended a women’s leadership development conference in Jamaica that was sponsored by faith-based organizations. At the conference she developed relationships with women whose lives were very different from her own and listened to their stories of struggle and challenge. These personal relationships gave her a new vantage point for understanding economic globalization. Her even deeper transformation occurred when after sharing her story of being called to help people by doing mission work in the two-thirds world, a …

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Water As Earth's Bloodstream: Latina Ecofeminist Spirituality And Water Justice, Laura A. Stivers Jul 2011

Water As Earth's Bloodstream: Latina Ecofeminist Spirituality And Water Justice, Laura A. Stivers

Laura Stivers

Spirit and Nature is a collection of essays exploring how the resources of Christian spirituality can inform the practice of a more ecologically sustainable faith. Our current ecological situation calls for people of religious faith to reexamine the way they envision the practice of spirituality. As environmental ethicists have called us to reconsider the human-Earth relationship so that the planet is not seen as simply an endless supply of resources to fill human wants and needs, so these essays call us to reconsider spiritual practice as it relates to Earth's ecology. Rather than viewing spirituality as an escape from the …

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Spotlight On Teaching: Environmental And Economic Injustice, Laura Stivers Apr 2011

Spotlight On Teaching: Environmental And Economic Injustice, Laura Stivers

Laura Stivers

No abstract provided.

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Care For Creation And Greening Of Church Communities, Laura Stivers Oct 2008

Care For Creation And Greening Of Church Communities, Laura Stivers

Laura Stivers

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Water As Earth’S Bloodstream Or As Market Commodity? Examination Of Latina Ecofeminist Theology And The Privatization Of Water, Laura Stivers Feb 2008

Water As Earth’S Bloodstream Or As Market Commodity? Examination Of Latina Ecofeminist Theology And The Privatization Of Water, Laura Stivers

Laura Stivers

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Conserving Divine Creation, Laura Stivers Oct 2007

Conserving Divine Creation, Laura Stivers

Laura Stivers

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Panel Participant On Environmental Racism And Ecofeminist/Ecowomanist Theology Panel, Laura Stivers Oct 2007

Panel Participant On Environmental Racism And Ecofeminist/Ecowomanist Theology Panel, Laura Stivers

Laura Stivers

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To Be Or Not To Be A Vegetarian, Laura Stivers Feb 2002

To Be Or Not To Be A Vegetarian, Laura Stivers

Laura Stivers

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