The Ecology of Coexistence and Conflict in Cyprus

1. Introduction
PART I
	2. Chapter 1: Nature, culture and religion in theory: an exploration of ideas
		2.1. Tracing Western thought on nature
		2.2. Culture and religion in classical evolution
		2.3. Nature and culture in American neoevolutionism
			2.3.1. Religion in American neoevolutionism
		2.4. Ecosystem and religion: restoring balance on islands
			2.4.1. Ecosystem and religion I: Roy Rappaport
			2.4.2. Ecosystem and religion II: Stephen Lansing
		2.5. From contextuality to cognition: sum ergo cogito
			2.5.1. Sharing culture through ecological relations
			2.5.2. Folkecology and religious belief
			2.5.3. Religion and adaption
	3. Chapter 2: Nature, culture and religion in Mediterranean context
		3.1. The prehistory of islands settlement: inputs from the Mediterranean Neolithic
		3.2. Contemplating cultural unity: three synoptics of the historical Mediterranean
			3.2.1. Honour and shame: a Mediterranean unity of values
	4. Chapter 3: Environmental ethics and ecotheology: a discourse on values
		4.1. Indigeneity and the ethics of nature conservation
		4.2. The historical roots of our ecological crisis
		4.3. Eastern Orthodox ecotheology: tracing Eastern thoughts on nature
			4.3.1. Principles of Orthodox ecotheology: icons, liturgy and asceticism
		4.4. Islamic ecotheology: the doctrine of unity
			4.4.1. Creation as trust: principles of Islamic nature conservation
		4.5. Eastern Orthodox and Islamic ecotheology in comparison
PART II
	5. Chapter 4: Cyprus in the Ottoman Mediterranean: a historical introduction to Part II
		5.1. New paradigms for an Ottoman Mediterranean
		5.2. Agricultural patterns, agrarian cycles and the rural economy
		5.3. Ottoman island society and statepeasant relations
		5.4. The Church of Cyprus as Ottoman stakeholder: an economy of nationbuilding
	6. Chapter 5: The ecology of coexistence
		6.1. The texture of neighbourhood: from social to ecological parameters
		6.2. Religious belonging and residential patterns in Ottoman Cyprus
		6.3. The Ottoman system of land administration
		6.4. Land, forests and water: ecological strategies of Ottoman Cyprus
	7. Chapter 6: Religion and ecology in premodern Cyprus
		7.1. Institutional conservation and resource management
		7.2. Local religion: property, folklore and ethnoecology
			7.2.1. Folklore studies: tree worship and the problem of survivals
		7.3. Syncretism and the discourse on Mediterranean plurality
		7.4. Syncretism in Cyprus: developing an ecocognitive approach
PART III
	8. Chapter 7: From colonial rule to modern division: a historical introduction to Part III
		8.1. Colonial division
		8.2. Postcolonial division
	9. Chapter 8: the ecology of conflict
		9.1. British colonial landscapes: a vision of orderliness and control
			9.1.1. British agricultural reforms: modernizing property
		9.2. The rise of the realestate market: commodification and conflict
			9.2.1. The land market as a setting of ethnic conflict
		9.3. Property relations after division: the property issue
	10. Chapter 9: Nature conservation and sustainability in conflict discourse
		10.1. An environmental conflict? Nature conservation and intercommunal relations
		10.2. The Akamas issue: a tragedy of the commons
		10.3. Environmentalism in Cyprus: a postcolonial perspective
		10.4. Nationalism and the ecumenical: considering ecclesiastical politics
			10.4.1. A concern for landscape: the Church and the cultural heritage in the North
	11. Conclusion
	12. Appendix
	13. Bibliography
Subject Index