Jainism and Ecology: Nonviolence in the Web of Life Book

	Preface
	Series Foreword
	Introduction
I	Jain Theories about the Nature of the Universe
	The Jain Worldview and Ecology	3
	Jain Ecological Perspectives	19
	The Nature of Nature: Jain Perspectives on the Natural World	35
II	Challenges to the Possibility of a Jain Environmental Ethic
	Green Jainism? Notes and Queries toward a Possible Jain Environmental Ethic	63
	The Limits of a Jain Environmental Ethic	95
	The Living Earth of Jainism and the New Story: Rediscovering and Reclaiming a Functional Cosmology	119
	Ecology, Economics, and Development in Jainism	141
III	Voices within the Tradition: Jainism Is Ecological
	The Environmental and Ecological Teachings of Tirthankara Mahavira	159
	Ecology and Spirituality in the Jain Tradition	169
	Jain Ecology	181
IV	Tradition and Modernity: Can Jainism Meet the Environmental Challenge?
	From Liberation to Ecology: Ethical Discourses among Orthodox and Diaspora Jains	193
App	The Jain Declaration on Nature	217
	Select Bibliography	225
	Notes on Contributors	233
	Index	237