Protecting Nature, Saving Creation

Introduction; Pasquale Gagliardi Ariadne and the Minotaur: A Thread Winding Through the Labyrinth (A Guide for Readers); Anne Marie Reijnen PART I: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 'DIALOGUE' 1. Taking in the Real: Human Beings and the Earth (Opening Speech); Angelo Scola, Patriarch of Venice 2. Ecological Conflicts and Religious Passions: a Patchwork of Beliefs 3. 'Nature' or 'Creation'? Difficult choices of the Church Fathers; Izabela Jurasz 4. 'Dame Nature cares nothing for us'; Simon Schaffer 5. Creation and Salvation; Bruno Latour 6. Harmonious Cosmos and the World of the Fall: Natural and Counter-natural in the Orthodox Christian Tradition; Elizabeth Theokritoff 7. Transforming the World, Contemplating the Cosmos: A Protestant Trajectory; Anne Marie Reijnen 8. Roman Catholic Contributions to Address the Current Ecological Crisis; Andrea Vicini 9. The 'cosmism' of Islam as a Possible Response to the Current Ecological Crisis; Eric Geoffroy 10. Economies and Ecologies of the Sacred in Zimbabwe; Matthew Engelke 11. Economic Development, Anthropomorphism, and the Principle of Reasonable Sufficiency; Eduardo Viveiros de Castro 12. Economic and Ecological Challenges: Is There a Role for Religion?; Ignazio Musu 13. Modernization as Liberation Theology; Ted Nordhaus and Michael Schellenberger PART II: AFTERTHOUGHTS A Preliminary Notice; Pasquale Gagliardi 1. Afterthought: Of Maker's Knowledge; Simon Schaffer 2. Thoughts after the Dialogue…; Izabela Jurasz 3. Mobilizing Religions for the Ecological Crisis: An Urgent but Difficult Task; Ignazio Musu 4. Evolve: Modernization as the Road to Salvation; Michael Schellenberger and Ted Nordhaus 5. My Manifesto for the Dialogue; Bruno Latour 6. The Balance of Nature. What Can Be Learned from the History of the Earth and Life; George Theokritoff 7. Conclusive Remarks: Roman Catholic Commitment to Promoting Sustainability; Andrea Vicini 8. What is My Personal Outcome From this Dialogue ?; Eric Geoffroy 9. Part of Creation Called to be Gods: Further Thoughts on the Place of Humans; Elizabeth Theokritoff 10. Defining the Commonplace as the Common Place: Cosmopolitanism and the Cross; Anne Marie Reijnen