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Book Synopsis Sacred Custodians of the Earth? by : Alaine M. Low
Download or read book Sacred Custodians of the Earth? written by Alaine M. Low and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These 13 workshop-based papers critique ecofeminist assumptions about traditional societies viewing women as closer to nature and more spiritual than men. Following an overview by Low (history, Open U.) and Tremayne (social and cultural anthropology, U. of Oxford), the first contribution frames the debate over gender politics and environmentalism. Next, case studies illustrate sacred landscape (not intrinsically ecologically-oriented) in such societies past and present. Part III treats nature and gender in several major world religions. The final paper discusses contemporary paganism's quest for wholeness. The cover title reads Women as sacred custodians of the earth? Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Book Synopsis Sacred Custodians of the Earth? by : Alaine M. Low
Download or read book Sacred Custodians of the Earth? written by Alaine M. Low and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These 13 workshop-based papers critique ecofeminist assumptions about traditional societies viewing women as closer to nature and more spiritual than men. Following an overview by Low (history, Open U.) and Tremayne (social and cultural anthropology, U. of Oxford), the first contribution frames the debate over gender politics and environmentalism. Next, case studies illustrate sacred landscape (not intrinsically ecologically-oriented) in such societies past and present. Part III treats nature and gender in several major world religions. The final paper discusses contemporary paganism's quest for wholeness. The cover title reads Women as sacred custodians of the earth? Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Book Synopsis Women as Sacred Custodians of the Earth? by : Alaine Low
Download or read book Women as Sacred Custodians of the Earth? written by Alaine Low and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2001-12-30 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literature on women, development and environment is abundant. The relationship between women and ecology has been analyzed by various disciplines, by specialists from the North as well as the South. This book offers a new perspective, specifically to challenge the assumption that women have a special affinity with the Earth and therefore a historic mission for the care of the environment. The book explores spiritual, religious and philosophical beliefs concerning women and ecology, and whether women are truly "sacred custodians" of the Earth. This concept has evolved from ideas developed by eco-feminists. Whether and how different belief systems can be put to use to create an awareness to protect, preserve and improve ecological conditions is discussed. The collection of papers demonstrates the complexity of the issues and the variations and vulnerability of the assumed relationship between women and the environment in different cultural and political contexts. The book challenges policy solutions which are devised to be on a global scale and to create unrealistic global aspirations, and the value of targeting women in a particular attempt to achieve environmentally sustainable development.
Book Synopsis This Sacred Earth by : Roger S. Gottlieb
Download or read book This Sacred Earth written by Roger S. Gottlieb and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-11-07 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Updated with nearly forty new selections to reflect the tremendous growth and transformation of scholarly, theological, and activist religious environmentalism, the second edition of This Sacred Earth is an unparalleled resource for the study of religion's complex relationship to the environment.
Book Synopsis The Sacred Universe by : Thomas Berry
Download or read book The Sacred Universe written by Thomas Berry and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A leading scholar, cultural historian, and Catholic priest who spent more than fifty years writing about our engagement with the Earth, Thomas Berry possessed prophetic insight into the rampant destruction of ecosystems and the extinction of species. In this book he makes a persuasive case for an interreligious dialogue that can better confront the environmental problems of the twenty-first century. These erudite and keenly sympathetic essays represent Berry's best work, covering such issues as human beings' modern alienation from nature and the possibilities of future, regenerative forms of religious experience. Asking that we create a new story of the universe and the emergence of the Earth within it, Berry resituates the human spirit within a sacred totality.
Book Synopsis Land, Law and Environment by : Allen Abramson
Download or read book Land, Law and Environment written by Allen Abramson and published by Pluto Press. This book was released on 2000-11-20 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In ten essays, anthropologists (mostly) focus more on the practical rather than cultural and ideological issues of postcolonial legacies in land law, contemporary claims on ancestral lands, and conservation issues--from Australia to West Africa. Abramson is with U. College London. Theodossopoulos is at the U. of Wales-Lampeter. The book is distributed by Stylus. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Sacred Places written by James Swan and published by Inner Traditions / Bear & Co. This book was released on 1990-04 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Supporting Lovelock's thesis that the Earth is a living being, Swan suggests natural sites such as Serpent Mound, Machu Pichu, and Kilauea Center have the power to move us in ways modern science cannot explain.
Book Synopsis Inherited Land by : Whitney A. Bauman
Download or read book Inherited Land written by Whitney A. Bauman and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2011-08-04 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Religion and ecology" has arrived. What was once a niche interest for a few academics concerned with environmental issues and a few environmentalists interested in religion has become an established academic field with classic texts, graduate programs, regular meetings at academic conferences, and growing interest from other academics and the mass media. Theologians, ethicists, sociologists, and other scholars are engaged in a broad dialogue about the ways religious studies can help understand and address environmental problems, including the sorts of methodological, terminological, and substantive debates that characterize any academic discourse.This book recognizes the field that has taken shape, reflects on the ways it is changing, and anticipates its development in the future. The essays offer analyses and reflections from emerging scholars of religion and ecology, each addressing her or his own specialty in light of two questions: (1) What have we inherited from the work that has come before us? and (2) What inquiries, concerns, and conversation partners should be central to the next generation of scholarship?The aim of this volume is not to lay out a single and clear path forward for the field. Rather, the authors critically reflect on the field from within, outline some of the major issues we face in the academy, and offer perspectives that will nurture continued dialogue.
Download or read book Sacred Earth written by Arthur Versluis and published by Inner Traditions / Bear & Co. This book was released on 1992-06 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Placing Native American spirituality in the context of the world's great religions, Sacred Earth contrasts contemporary society's arrogant belief in its own power with native traditions of reverence for the earth. This eye-opening journey through the terrain of Native American spirituality is an urgent call to rediscover and become firmly grounded on the sacred earth again.
Book Synopsis This Sacred Earth by : Roger Gottlieb
Download or read book This Sacred Earth written by Roger Gottlieb and published by . This book was released on 2003-11-27 with total page 781 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Updating a survey of religion's complex relationship to the environment, "This Sacred Earth," second edition reflects a decade's tremendous growth and transformation of scholarly, theological and activist religious environmentalism.
Book Synopsis The Sacred Earth by : Brian Leigh Molyneaux
Download or read book The Sacred Earth written by Brian Leigh Molyneaux and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Experiencing and Protecting Sacred Natural Sites of Sámi and other Indigenous Peoples by : Leena Heinämäki
Download or read book Experiencing and Protecting Sacred Natural Sites of Sámi and other Indigenous Peoples written by Leena Heinämäki and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-02-24 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses specifically on the experience and protection of indigenous, and particularly Sámi sacred sites in the Arctic. Sacred sites are being increasingly recognized as important reservoirs of Arctic cultural and biological diversity, as a means for the transmission of culture and identity, and a tool for the preservation of fragile northern social-ecological systems. Yet, legal protection of Arctic sacred sites and related policies are often still lacking or absent. It becomes increasingly difficult for site custodians in the Arctic to protect these ancient sites, due to disruptive changes, such as climate change, economic developments and infrastructural development. With contributions from Sámi and non-Sámi scholars from Arctic regions, this book provides new insights into our understanding of the significance and legal protection of sacred sites for Sámi of the Arctic. It examines the role of international human rights, environmental law, and longstanding customary law that uphold Arctic indigenous peoples’ rights in conservation, and their associated management systems. It also demonstrates the complex relationships between indigenous knowledge, cultural/spiritual values and belief systems and nature conservation. The book looks forward to providing guidelines for future research and practice for improved integration of the ethical, cultural and spiritual values of nature into law, policy, planning and management. As such, this book offers a contribution to upholding the sanctity of these sites, their cultural identity and the biodiversity associated with them.
Book Synopsis Sacred Natural Sites by : Bas Verschuuren
Download or read book Sacred Natural Sites written by Bas Verschuuren and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-06-25 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sacred Natural Sites are the world's oldest protected places. This book focuses on a wide spread of both iconic and lesser known examples such as sacred groves of the Western Ghats (India), Sagarmatha /Chomolongma (Mt Everest, Nepal, Tibet - and China), the Golden Mountains of Altai (Russia), Holy Island of Lindisfarne (UK) and the sacred lakes of the Niger Delta (Nigeria). The book illustrates that sacred natural sites, although often under threat, exist within and outside formally recognised protected areas, heritage sites. Sacred natural sites may well be some of the last strongholds for building resilient networks of connected landscapes. They also form important nodes for maintaining a dynamic socio-cultural fabric in the face of global change. The diverse authors bridge the gap between approaches to the conservation of cultural and biological diversity by taking into account cultural and spiritual values together with the socio-economic interests of the custodian communities and other relevant stakeholders.
Book Synopsis The Sacred Balance by : David Suzuki
Download or read book The Sacred Balance written by David Suzuki and published by Greystone Books Ltd. This book was released on 2007 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten years after this important book was first published, David Suzuki re-examines our place in teh natural world in light of the recent sweeping environmental changes and advances in scientific knowledge.
Book Synopsis Mother Earth, Mother Africa & African Indigenous Religions by : Nobuntu Penxa Matholeni
Download or read book Mother Earth, Mother Africa & African Indigenous Religions written by Nobuntu Penxa Matholeni and published by African Sun Media. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Africans embrace all of life, the humanity of each person, the world, and the creation of God. Consequently, African indigenous education reflects the completeness of life itself. The various chapters in this volume recount religious events and experiences from individual perspectives as they are unfolding on the continent. The different voices show how modernity, colonisation, urbanisation, Christianity, and technology have sidelined beliefs and practices of African traditional religions (ATRs) to the detriment of the environment. This volume brings together voices from leading proponents of ATRs and African religious heritage to help us appreciate how values are richly entrenched in African religious life. It demonstrates the detailed richness of ATRs and culture and showcases how far the academic study of ATRs in Africa has come, and calls for a concerted effort through partnership between various actors to ensure environmental sustainability.
Book Synopsis This Sacred Earth by : Roger S. Gottlieb
Download or read book This Sacred Earth written by Roger S. Gottlieb and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive survey of the critical connections between religion, nature and the environment. It includes writings from sacred texts and a broad spectrum of new eco-theological selections. Historical and contemporary selections from key authors and a multicultural range of sources make This Sacred Earth an invaluable teaching resource and a unique introduction to the theory and practice of religious environmentalism.
Book Synopsis On Being an Earth Being by : Norman C. Habel
Download or read book On Being an Earth Being written by Norman C. Habel and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-02-14 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when you discover you are an Earth being and not just a human being? This volume traces my journey from being a child of Mother Church to being a child of Mother Earth, from being a human being cursed with original sin to being an Earth being blessed with innate spirituality. My journey includes probing the maze of mysteries called ecology, attending the Wisdom School of the ancient world, taking a cosmic journey with the traumatized Job, joining Aboriginal peoples of Australia in reading the spiritual landscape, and celebrating life in a cosmic sanctuary called Earth. These reflections are suitable not only for personal meditation, but for readings in worship contexts and for spirituality retreats or workshops.
