Abstract: Introduction: Religion and Ecology—What Is the Connection and Why Does It Matter? – Judaism – Catholicism – The Earth as Sacrament: Insights from Orthodox Christian Theology and Spirituality – The World of Nature according to the Protestant Tradition – Jainism and Ecology: Transformation of Tradition – Hindu Religion and Environmental Well-being – The Greening of Buddhism: Promise and Perils – Islam – Daoism and Nature – Motifs for a New Confucian Ecological Vision – Religion and Ecology in African Culture and Society – Indigenous Traditions: Religion and Ecology – Population, Religion, and Ecology – Genetic Engineering and Nature: Human and Otherwise – So Near and Yet So Far: Animal Theology and Ecological Theology – Religious Ecofeminism: Healing the Ecological Crisis – Science and Religion in the Face of the Environmental Crisis – Religion and Ecology: Survey of the Field – The Spiritual Dimension of Nature Writing – Religion, Environmentalism, and the Meaning of Ecology – Religious Environmentalism in Action – Religion and Environmental Struggles in Latin America – African Initiated Churches as Vehicles of Earth-Care in Africa – The Scientist and the Shepherd: The Emergence of Evangelical Environmentalism – Religion and Environmentalism in America and Beyond

Keywords: African religion, Buddhi, Buddhism, Catholic, Christ, church, ecology, environment, healing, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, sacrament, science and religion, spiritual, Theology, tradition, action, Christian, Latin, matter, religious, spirit, spirituality