Part One: Traditional cultures -- Mistassini Cree: hunting as a religious ritual -- Australian Aboriginal religion: the sacralization of the land -- Ainu and Koyukon religion: selected themes -- Native American religion: ecological themes -- Part Two: Asian religious traditions -- Hinduism: ecological themes -- Chinese religions: ecological themes -- Buddhism: ecological themes -- Part Three: Background to the contemporary discussion of ecology and religion -- Christianity as ecologically harmful -- Christianity as ecologically responsible -- Nature disenchanted: the modern view of nature -- Ecological spirituality in Thoreau, Muir, and Leopold -- Part Four: Contemporary discussion of ecology and religion -- Contemporary ecotheology -- Animal rights and ecological ethics -- Deep ecology: from anthropocentrism and biocentrism -- Ecoactivism -- Ecofeminism: the exploitation of nature and women -- Four ecovisionaries.