Religion and the Environment

This work is an analysis of the whole frontier between religion and the environment. It deals in turn with their interactions and the effects of each on the other in the major world religions. It considers the religious impact on human uses of time, space, materials, transport, foods, and the environmental effects of religious influence on major topics such as population pressures, morbidity, mortality, marital arrangements, contraception, the treatment of animals, and environmental management.

Ralph Tanner has taught in the Universities of East Africa and London and was Chairman of the East African Institute of Social Research.

Colin Mitchell served on the United Nations team assessing the Ethiopian national development plan.