Purifying the earthly body of God religion and ecology in Hindu India (State University of New York Press, 1998)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Toward an indigenous Indian environmentalism - Christopher Key Chapple -- - Ecological implications of karma theory - Harold Coward -- - Attitudes to nature in the early Upaniṣads - Arvind Sharma -- - Dualism of nondualism : Advaita Vedānta and the irrelevance of nature - Lance E. Nelson -- - Sacred immanence : reflections of ecofeminism in Hindu Tantra - Rita DasGupta Sherma -- - Models and images for a Vaiṣṇava environmental theology : the potential contribution of Śrīvaiṣṇavism - Patricia Y. Mumme -- - Sin and rain : moral ecology in rural north India - Ann Grodzins Gold -- - On the ethics and aesthetics of recycling in India - Frank J. Korom -- - Learning the story of the land : reflections on the liberating power of geography and pilgrimage in the Hindu tradition - David Kinsley -- - Theology and ecology at the birthplace of Kṛṣṇa - Bruce M. Sullivan -- - Earth as goddess Bhū Devī : toward a theory of "embedded ecologies" in folk Hinduism - Vijaya Rettakudi Nagarajan -- - Idioms of degeneracy : assessing Gaṅga's purity and pollution - Kelly D. Alley