Jainism and ecology nonviolence in the web of life

Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-231) and index.

Machine generated contents note: I. Jain Theories about the Nature of the Universe -- The Jain Worldview and Ecology -- Nathmal Tatia 3 -- Jain Ecological Perspectives -- John M. Koller 19 -- The Nature of Nature: Jain Perspectives on the -- Natural World -- Kristi L. Wiley 35 -- II. Challenges to the Possibility of a Jain Environmental Ethic -- Green Jainism? Notes and Queries toward a Possible Jain -- Environmental Ethic -- John E. Cort 63 -- The Limits of a Jain Environmental Ethic -- Paul Dundas 95 -- The Living Earth of Jainism and the New Story: -- Rediscovering and Reclaiming a Functional Cosmology -- Christopher Key Chapple 119 -- Ecology, Economics, and Development in Jainism -- Padmanabh S. Jaini 141 -- III. Voices within the Tradition: Jainism Is Ecological -- The Environmental and Ecological Teachings of Tirthaikara Mahavira -- Sadhvi Shilapi 159 -- Ecology and Spirituality in the Jain Tradition -- Bhagchandra Jain 'Bhaskar' 169 -- Jain Ecology -- Satish Kumar 181 -- IV. Tradition and Modernity: Can Jainism Meet the Environmental Challenge? -- From Liberation to Ecology: Ethical Discourses among Orthodox and Diaspora Jains -- Anne Vallely 193 -- Appendix: -- The Jain Declaration on Nature -- L. M. Singhvi 217.