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Spiritual Ecology: Is It the Ultimate Solution for the Environmental Crisis?: Works Cited

By Leslie E. Sponsel

Works Cited

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Websites

(All websites in this article were accessed December 6, 2013.)

Bron Taylor, University of Florida

Ecological Buddhism: A Buddhist Response to Global Warming

The Forum on Religion and Ecology, by Mary Evelyn Tucker and John A. Grim.  Yale University.

International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture

“Religion and Ecology,” by John Grim et al.  Oxford, 2013.

Spiritual Ecology: A Quiet Revolution, by Leslie E. Sponsel

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