God and Gaia: Science, Religion and Ethics on a Living Planet

God and Gaia explores the overlap between traditional religious cosmologies and the scientific Gaia theory of James Lovelock. It argues that a Gaian approach to the ecological crisis involves rebalancing human and more-than-human influences on Earth by reviving the ecological agency of local and indigenous human communities, and of nonhuman beings.

Present-day human ecological influences on Earth have been growing at pace since the Scientific and Industrial Revolutions, when modern humans ad...