JBE Publication News: 10th October 1995

[d.keown at gold.ac.uk]

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JOURNAL OF BUDDHIST ETHICS
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GENERAL EDITORS:     Damien Keown (Goldsmiths, London),
                     Charles S. Prebish (Penn State)

TECHNICAL EDITOR:    Wayne Husted (Penn State)

BOOK REVIEW EDITOR:  Karen Lang (Virginia)

EDITORIAL BOARD:

Masao Abe (Nara), George Bond (Northwestern), David Chappell
(Hawaii), Lance Cousins (Manchester), Richard Gombrich
(Oxford), Charles Hallisey (Harvard), Ian Harris (St Martin's,
Lancaster), Peter Harvey (Sunderland), Richard Hayes (McGill),
Christopher Ives (Puget Sound), Leslie Kawamura (Calgary), Winston
King (Emeritus, Vanderbilt), Kenneth Kraft (Lehigh University),
Karen Lang (Virginia), Reginald Ray (Colorado), Lambert Schmithausen
(Hamburg), Robert Thurman (Columbia), Paul Williams (Bristol).

The editors are pleased to announce the publication of the following
Research Article:

GETTING TO GRIPS WITH BUDDHIST ENVIRONMENTALISM: A PROVISIONAL
TYPOLOGY

IAN HARRIS
University College of St. Martin
Dept of Religious Studies and Social Ethics
Lancaster LA1 3JD, UK
E-mail: i.harris at lancaster.ac.uk

Publication Date: October 10th, 1995

ABSTRACT

This paper offers a survey of current writing and practice within the
area of Buddhist environmental ethics. Consideration of the manner in
which sections of contemporary Buddhism have embraced a range of
environmental concerns suggests that four fairly distinct types of
discourse are in the process of formation, i.e. eco-spirituality,
eco-justice, eco-traditionalism and eco-apologetics. This fourfold
typology is described and examples of each type are discussed. The
question of the 'authenticity', from the Buddhist perspective, is
addressed to each type in turn.

Citation: Vol. 2 1995: 173-190
Directory: /vol 2
Filename: Harris.txt
Publication Date: 10 October 1995