# Religion, Ecology, and Our Planetary Future ## expand\_more "Religions of the World and Ecology" is a ten-volume publication series of the Center for the Study of World Religions (CSWR) at Harvard Divinity School, distributed by Harvard University Press. The series examines the ecological implications of the beliefs, attitudes, rituals, and doctrines of the world's religions, and the resources those traditions may offer for understanding the relationship between human communities and the natural world. The series grew out of a research project based at the Center. Between 1996 and 1998, ten conferences held at Harvard brought together more than six hundred scholars, religious leaders, and environmental specialists from around the world, and closed with culminating gatherings at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the United Nations, and the American Museum of Natural History. The ten volumes that grew out of the conferences were published by the Center over the years that followed, from 1997 to 2004. Each volume develops the themes explored at one of the conferences and opens with an introductory essay by the series editors on the challenge of the environmental crisis. **General Editor:** Lawrence E. Sullivan, Director of the CSWR (1990–2003) **Senior Editor:** Kathryn Dodgson **Series Editors:** Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim [### Buddhism and Ecology ](https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780945454144)*Buddhism and Ecology: The Interconnection of Dharma and Deeds* (1997) Edited by Mary Evelyn Tucker and Duncan Ryūken Williams ![book cover](/sites/g/files/omnuum4346/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-10/Buddhism%20and%20ecology.jpg?h=b3bec05a&itok=QNuK3i3G) [### Confucianism and Ecology ](https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780945454168)*Confucianism and Ecology: The Interrelation of Heaven, Earth, and Humans* (1998) Edited by Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Berthrong ![book cover](/sites/g/files/omnuum4346/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-10/confucianism%20and%20ecology_0.jpg?h=d8b19e7d&itok=6rCrSbq6) [### Hinduism and Ecology ](https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780945454250)*Hinduism and Ecology: The Intersection of Earth, Sky, and Water* (2000) Edited by Christopher Key Chapple and Mary Evelyn Tucker ![book cover](/sites/g/files/omnuum4346/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-10/Hinduism%20and%20ecology.jpg?h=6e9ce281&itok=q3Kv7kY9) [### Christianity and Ecology ](https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780945454205)*Christianity and Ecology: Seeking the Well-Being of Earth and Humans* (2000) Edited by Dieter T. Hessel and Rosemary Radford Ruether ![book cover](/sites/g/files/omnuum4346/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-10/christianity%20and%20ecology_0.jpg?h=83964b00&itok=G9ZGiKF1) [### Indigenous Traditions and Ecology ](https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780945454281)*Indigenous Traditions and Ecology: The Interbeing of Cosmology and Community* (2001) Edited by John Grim ![book cover](/sites/g/files/omnuum4346/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-10/Indigenous%20traditions%20and%20ecology.jpg?h=134e7181&itok=DiD25bhu) [### Daoism and Ecology ](https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780945454304)*Daoism and Ecology: Ways within a Cosmic Landscape* (2001) Edited by N. J. Girardot, James Miller, and Liu Xiaogan ![book cover](/sites/g/files/omnuum4346/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-10/Daoism%20and%20ecology_0.jpg?h=d1de6f6f&itok=Rz5ToTup) [### Jainism and Ecology ](https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780945454342)*Jainism and Ecology: Nonviolence in the Web of Life* (2002) Edited by Christopher Key Chapple ![book cover](/sites/g/files/omnuum4346/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-10/Jainism%20and%20ecology.jpg?h=e91830af&itok=-5Lof4pY) [### Judaism and Ecology ](https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780945454366)*Judaism and Ecology: Created World and Revealed Word* (2002) Edited by Hava Tirosh-Samuelson ![book cover](/sites/g/files/omnuum4346/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-10/Judaism%20and%20Ecology.jpg?h=0449bfae&itok=i-jRT6j5) [### Islam and Ecology ](https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780945454397)*Islam and Ecology: A Bestowed Trust* (2003) Edited by Richard C. Foltz, Frederick M. Denny, and Azizan Baharuddin ![book cover](/sites/g/files/omnuum4346/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-10/Islam%20and%20Ecology.jpg?h=4faea147&itok=Ctb2iARS) [### Ecology of Human Flourishing ](https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780945454458)Edited by Donald K. Swearer and Susan Lloyd McGarry ![book cover](/sites/g/files/omnuum4346/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-10/Ecologies%20of%20Human%20Flourishing.jpg?h=7f48c598&itok=OMw66HGO) ## About the Project The conferences were coordinated by Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim, then of Bucknell University, in collaboration with Lawrence E. Sullivan, the Center's director. At the Center, the conferences were supervised by Don Kunkel and Malgorzata Radziszewska-Hedderick, and the volumes were published under the editorial direction of Kathryn Dodgson. The project was co-sponsored by Bucknell University and by the Center for Respect of Life and Environment, which originally made the conferences possible. Major funding was provided by the V. Kann Rasmussen Foundation, with additional support from the Aga Khan Trust for Culture, the Association of Shinto Shrines, the Nathan Cummings Foundation, the Dharam Hinduja Indic Research Center at Columbia University, the Germeshausen Foundation, the Harvard Buddhist Studies Forum, the Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Studies, the Harvard Divinity School Center for the Study of Values in Public Life, the Jain Academic Foundation of North America, the Albert and Vera List Endowment, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Laurance Rockefeller, the Sacharuna Foundation, the Surdna Foundation, Theological Education to Meet the Environmental Challenge, and the Winslow Foundation.