Considers how Jewish history, thought, and texts can help us to understand the environment and address climate change and natural disasters, today and in the future.
Considers how Jewish history, thought, and texts can help us to understand the environment and address climate change and natural disasters, today and in the future.
Dean Phillip Bell (PhD, University of California, Berkeley) is President/CEO and Professor of Jewish History at Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership. He teaches a wide range of courses in Jewish history and Jewish leadership and has delivered programs and workshops and led working groups on the theme of religion and the environment. He is author of dozens of scholarly articles and author or editor of more than a dozen books, including recently as co-author of Interreligious Resilience: Interreligious Leadership for a Pluralistic World with Michael S. Hogue (Bloomsbury, 2022).
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Acknowledgements Introduction Part 1: Historical Cases: Toward a Jewish Environmental History 1. Earthquakes: Understanding Nature and Natural Disasters 2. Plague as Natural Disaster 3. Floods: From Theology to Technology-Understanding, Mitigation, and Prevention 4. Learning with Fire 5. Comparative Perspectives: Natural Disasters, Jews, and Islam Part 2: Disaster, History, and Religion: Tradition and Innovation 6. Beyond History: Disasters and Crises in the Anthropocene 7. History, Narratives, and Temporality 8. Religion and the Environment: Some Traditional Assessments and Applications 9. Religion: New Conceptions and Opportunities Part 3: New Approaches in the Anthropocene 10. Complexity, Polarization, and Resilience 11. From Conceptual Challenges to Practical Applications Bibliography Index
Acknowledgements Introduction Part 1: Historical Cases: Toward a Jewish Environmental History 1. Earthquakes: Understanding Nature and Natural Disasters 2. Plague as Natural Disaster 3. Floods: From Theology to Technology-Understanding, Mitigation, and Prevention 4. Learning with Fire 5. Comparative Perspectives: Natural Disasters, Jews, and Islam Part 2: Disaster, History, and Religion: Tradition and Innovation 6. Beyond History: Disasters and Crises in the Anthropocene 7. History, Narratives, and Temporality 8. Religion and the Environment: Some Traditional Assessments and Applications 9. Religion: New Conceptions and Opportunities Part 3: New Approaches in the Anthropocene 10. Complexity, Polarization, and Resilience 11. From Conceptual Challenges to Practical Applications Bibliography Index
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