RELIGION, ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA

Editors and Contributors

Preface: Foreword:

I. Indigenous

David O. Ogungbile & Oyeronke Olademo Olatunde Bayo Lawuyi

Resources on Environmental Maintenance

Religion, Environment and Sustainable Development in Africa
8. Islam and Noise Pollution 123

Musa Adesina Abdu-Raheem

9. Islam, Environment and Sustainable Development 138 – Abdul-Fatah Kola Makinde

10. Planet in Peril: Islam and the Global Imperative of Environmental Security 156

Misbahud-din O. Raheemson
Ill. Theologies and Theological Discourses on Environmental

Sustainability

1. Survival, Sustainability, and the Sacred: An Analysis of
Nasr’s Perspectives on the Environmental Crisis in Africa

Oludamini Ogunnaike
2. The Relevance of Environment in Indigenous Religious

l1.The Garden of God and the Responsibility of Man (Gen. 2:7- 17): Towards Environmental Sustainability in Nigeria 180

Practices of the Yoruba in South-western Nigeria Adelowo Felix Adetunji

Samson o. Olanisebe & Abiola A.Olaniyi

3. ‘Alternative’ Medicine in Africa as a Means of Sustainable Development 31

12. Creation and Providence in the New Testament: Is Sustainability of Environment in God’s or Human’s Hand 201

Adewale J. Adelakun

13. From Primordial Curse to Eschatological Restoration: Ecological Challenges from the Theologies of Creation in Genesis 3:14-20 and Romans 8:18-25 212

George Olufemi Folarin
14.Liturgic~1 Theology in a Graced World: Linking Christianity

and African Traditional Religion with Environmental
Concerns for the Possibility of Redeeming Nature from Human Degradation 224

Izunna Okonkwo

15.Image of God and Image of Women in Africa: Towards the Sustainability of Feminist Liberation Theology 239

– Oyeronke Olademo

4. Pax Herbal Centre: An Environmental Impact on the Roman Catholic Church in Contemporary Nigeria

Celestina Omoso Isiramen

39

II. Environmental Concerns, Religious Responses and Human Responsibility

70 and Muslim Students in Nigerian Universities 71

5. Space Contestation and Religious Identity among Christian David Olugbenga Ogungbi/e

6. New Religious Movements and Space Contestation 86 Enoch Olujide Gbadegesin

7. New Religious Movements and Space Contestation: A Study of Lagos-Ibadan Expressway 113

Francis Omoyele Falako

– Thomson Temitope Bello Select Bibliography