Religion and the Human Future An Essay on Theological Humanism

187

19 On this, see Iris Murdoch, 20 William James, Murdoch and the Search for Human GoodnessPenguin, 1993); also Maria Antonaccio and William Schweiker (eds.), Press, 1996). Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human NatureMetaphysics as a Guide to Morals (Chicago: University of Chicago (London: Allen Lane/Iris

(New York: Collier, 1961), p. 392. James is quoting Professor Leuba’s essay, “The Contents of Religious Consciousness” in ( July, 1901). The Monist 11, no. 536

1 William French, “Ecology” in 2 The most famous of these arguments is Lynne White, “The Historical Roots of William Schweiker (Oxford: Blackwell, 2005), p. 469.Chapter 6 Our Endangered GardenThe Blackwell Companion to Religious Ethics, ed.

3 See George Ritzer, Changing Character of Contemporary Social Lifesion and response to these claims, see James A. Nash, Our Ecological Crisis,” in Integrity and Christian ResponsibilityThe McDonaldization of Society: An Investigation into the Science 155 (March 10, 1967): 1203–7. For a discus- (Nashville: Abingdon, 1991). (Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge, Loving Nature: Ecological

4 See Huntington, University of Minnesota Press, 1996); Anthony Giddens, Benjamin R. Barber, Appadurai, 1993). Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of GlobalizationClash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World OrderJihad vs McWorld (New York: Time, 1995); Arjun Modernity and Self- (Minneapolis: ;

5 On this, see Manfred B. Steger, Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern AgeUniversity Press, 1991); Anthony D. King (ed.), World-System: Contemporary Conditions for the Representation of Identity(Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997).Globalization: A Very Short IntroductionCulture, Globalization and the (Stanford, CA: Stanford (Oxford:^

6 Roland Robertson, 7 John Tomlinson, Oxford University Press, 2003).Sage, 1992).Press, 1999), p. 2. As the human rights theorist Richard Falk puts it, globaliza-Globalization and CultureGlobalization: Social Theory and Global Culture (Chicago: University of Chicago (London:

8 See Saskia Sassen, tion “is creating a stronger sense of shared destiny among diverse peoples of the world, even while it is also generating a more stressful sense of ethnic, religious, and cultural difference.” See Richard A. Falk, Pursuit of Justice in a Globalizing WorldGlobalization and Its Discontents: Essays on the New Mobility of (New York: Routledge, 2000), p. 2.Human Rights Horizon: The

9 Ulrich Beck, Anthony Giddens, and Scott Lash, People and Money(Cambridge: Polity, 1994). (New York: New Press, 1998), p. xx.Refl exive Modernization

Notes to Pages 90–100

9 9781405155267_5Notes.indd 187 781405155267 5 _Notes.indd 187 5 5/2/2008 8:08:07 PM/ 2 / 2008 8 : 08 : 07 PM