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Throughout the world religious organizations are exploring and implementing into action ideas about the relevance of religion and spirituality in dealing with a growing multitude of environmental issues and problems. Religion and spirituality have the potential to be extremely influential for the better at many levels and in many ways through their intellectual, emotional, and activist components. This collection focuses on providing a set of captivating essays on the specifics of concrete cases of environmental activism involving most of the main Asian religions from several countries. Particular case studies are drawn from the religions of Animism, Buddhism, Daoism, Hinduism, Islam, and Jainism. They are from the countries of Bhutan, China, India, Indonesia, and Thailand. Thereby this set of case studies offers a very substantial and rich sampling of religious environmental activism in Asia. They are grounded in years of original field research on the subjects covered. Collectively these case studies reveal a fascinating and significant movement of environmental initiatives in engaged practical spiritual ecology in Asia. Accordingly, this collection should be of special interest to a diversity of scientists, academics, instructors, and students as well as communities and leaders from a wide variety of religions, environmentalism, and conservation.

n/a --- political ecology --- domestic waste --- Ecological Civilization --- new religious movements --- indigenous --- Ganga --- Buddhist agriculture --- Xishuangbanna --- Taoism --- animate landscapes --- Hinduism --- sustainability --- ethnic minorities --- India --- deforestation --- sustainable development --- conservation --- geopiety/geopolity --- Islam --- rural development --- waste reduction --- mobilizations --- religious environmental activism --- women --- re-use --- Anuvrat Movement --- common property regimes --- solid waste management --- Daoism --- rights of nature --- environmentalism --- Jainism --- eco-conscious living --- Thailand --- vital landscapes --- discard studies --- ecology --- ecological vow-taking --- Buddhism --- civilizing projects --- China --- anthropocene --- reincarnation --- rivers --- Vajrayana Buddhism --- Bhutan --- biodiversity --- spiritual ecology --- waste transformation --- fatwa --- Yamuna --- ecological civilization --- materiality --- watersheds --- sacred natural sites

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The institution of monasticism in the Christian Church is in general decline, at least in so-called “first world” nations. Though there are many reasons for this, monastic leaders are confronted by the reality of fewer communities, monks, and nuns nonetheless. At the same time, many younger Christians are rediscovering the rich heritage of the monastic tradition. Though they themselves might not be called to join a traditional monastery, they are eager to appropriate monastic practices in their own lives. This had led to a movement known as the “new monasticism” or “secular monasticism.” Despite lacking a unified vision and any central organization, these new/secular monastics are attempting, in their own ways, to carry on the tradition and practices of Christian monasticism. As well, there is a movement within historical Christian monasteries to pour new wine into old wineskins. Traditional forms of monasticism are also generally flourishing in developing nations, breathing new life into monasticism. This volume looks at the current monastic landscape to assess where monasticism stands and to imagine ways in which it will grow in the future, leading not only to a renewed Christian monasticism but to new monasticisms.

n/a --- artist --- religion and ecology --- Catholic monasticism --- religious pluralism --- Centering Prayer --- New Monastic Communities --- lay contemplatives --- Anselm --- environmental humanities --- new monasticism --- Proslogion --- creativity --- double monasteries --- monogamy --- religious ambiguity --- Vatican Council II --- monastic rules --- history of monasticism --- religious life --- art --- vows --- development --- spiritual ecology --- gender cohabitation --- Africa --- monk --- community --- spirituality --- contemplative Christianity --- spiritual formation --- intentional community --- greening of religion --- monotheism --- monasticism --- proof of God’s existence --- Beguine --- cultural transfer --- Orthodox monasticism --- landscape --- Monasticism and religious orders. --- Spiritual life --- Christianity. --- Monachism --- Monastic orders --- Monasticism and religious orders for men --- Monasticism and religious orders of men --- Orders, Monastic --- Orders, Religious --- Religious orders --- Brotherhoods --- Christian communities --- Brothers (Religious) --- Friars --- Monks --- Superiors, Religious --- proof of God's existence