Fiction writers and religious prophets have for long spoken of the end of the world. Unfortunately now we seem to be inching towards it, silently but surely. We have been caught in a vortex of the end-game of the earth making the problem of ecology paramount today. A religion exercises the greatest power on the human psyche, it is necessary to draw upon the wisdom of religion to instill in man the importance of ecology.
This book is the first of its kind in India because it asserts emphatically that in our age religions have been misused for drawing sustenance and propagation of religious fundamentalism and narrow sectarian outlook full of zingoism but religions truly preach concepts of true brotherhood, fellow feeling and respect for each other. One of the most significant dimension of all religions has been the assertion of the precept that man and nature are inextricably connected with each other for survival and therefore each can use the other avoid misusing each other. What, however, is happening around us is just the contrary of this concept and the result is alarming. The book adumbrates on textual interpretation of all religions that there should be a happy balance between use and misuse of the two.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Janardan Kumar
Janardan Kumar initially inducted as a lecturer in History, Bihar University, Muzaffarpur rose to the highest ladder of the academic world, i.e., Vice-Chancellor, L.N. Mithila University, Bihar. His keen interest in higher historical studies yielded many outstanding works, for example, Indo-Chinese Trade, The Company India, Select Documents on Indian Trade & Industry and Buddha, Buddhism and Vaishali. He has been contributing regular articles on varied subjects concerning history and political science. In the company of Sri Rajdeva Narayan he was drawn to the study of the most burning problem of modern times, i.e., ecology.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Rajdeva Narayan
Rajdeva Narayan is a practicing tax lawyer of repute and has been evincing keen interest in socio-economic problems of varied dimensions and of late has taken up the study of environmental issues for his special attention. He is a devoted follower of Gandhi-Lohia school of social philosophy and believes that the precepts of this philosophy can be successfully extended for developing and understanding and solution of the present day ecological problems. To achieve this end, he has been organizing seminars and symposia of social and political activists and intellectuals of diverse shades. The present book is a significant result of this venture.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Shri Jagmohan
Shri Jagmohan, Honble Union Minister of Tourism, Statistics and Programme Implementation, in his foreword to this book remarks: "I am confinent that this book will go a long way to serve as a guide post to readers everywhere since it deals with religions prevailing all over the world. I commend this book not only to activists, social scientists, anthropologists and others academically interested in the field of environment and religion, but also to the general reader."
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