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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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
