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Religion and Sustainable Agriculture

Author : Todd LeVasseur
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 081316799X
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Religion and Sustainable Agriculture written by Todd LeVasseur and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2016-10-21 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distinct practices of eating are at the heart of many of the world's faith traditions -- from the Christian Eucharist to Muslim customs of fasting during Ramadan to the vegetarianism and asceticism practiced by some followers of Hinduism and Buddhism. What we eat, how we eat, and whom we eat with can express our core values and religious devotion more clearly than verbal piety. In this wide-ranging collection, eminent scholars, theologians, activists, and lay farmers illuminate how religious beliefs influence and are influenced by the values and practices of sustainable agriculture. Together, they analyze a multitude of agricultural practices for their contributions to healthy, ethical living and environmental justice. Throughout, the contributors address current critical issues, including global trade agreements, indigenous rights to land and seed, and the effects of postcolonialism on farming and industry. Covering indigenous, Buddhist, Hindu, Christian, Muslim, and Jewish perspectives, this groundbreaking volume makes a significant contribution to the study of ethics and agriculture.

Soil and Sacrament

Author : Fred Bahnson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451663307
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Soil and Sacrament written by Fred Bahnson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-08-06 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the author's experiences founding a faith-based community garden in rural North Carolina, and emphasizes how growing one's own food can help readers reconnect with the land and divine faith.

Religion and Agriculture

Author : J. Lindsay Falvey
Publisher : lindsay falvey
ISBN 13 : 0975100025
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (751 download)

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Download or read book Religion and Agriculture written by J. Lindsay Falvey and published by lindsay falvey. This book was released on 2005 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religion is a powerful expression of culture that is most obviously expressed in our relationships with nature. As our major meeting point with nature is food, this provides a fertile field for cultivating the wisdom that Professor Falvey concludes is the essence of all sustainability. By bringing sustainability, agriculture, global issues, Buddhism, Christianity and a host of other factors into play, we see that our motivations belie our rhetoric -- in environmental actions through to trade and aid. This open-spirited book contains a wealth of analysis and alternative logics that make it essential to serious readers about nature, the environment, spirituality and religion, Asia and ourselves. Beginning with science and spirituality, the discussion moves from immortality to theology to literal misinterpretations and unifies these themes around unacknowledged Western core values. Shifting to philosophy, ethics, and rights, an ecological argument about our selective 'liberation' of nature is proffered as an introduction to global issues, including traditional values of poor countries and lost traditions in the West. An engrossing hybrid Oriental-Western dialectic allows chapters to be read alone or as part of an accumulating thesis. Thus Buddhist and Christian teachings are applied to agriculture and sustainability -- and they are found to be at one with each other. Whether it is biblical metaphor, karmic logic or enlightened self-interest, the continuous thread of a strong suture stitches a complex set of subjects into a coherent sutra that will vivify the current moribund dialogue between agriculture, science and religion. -- back cover.

Religious Agrarianism and the Return of Place

Author : Todd LeVasseur
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438467745
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Religious Agrarianism and the Return of Place written by Todd LeVasseur and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2017-10-27 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gold Medalist, 2018 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the Religion Category Finalist for the 2017 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Religion category Writing at the interface of religion and nature theory, US religious history, and environmental ethics, Todd LeVasseur presents the case for the emergence of a nascent "religious agrarianism" within certain subsets of Judaism and Christianity in the United States. Adherents of this movement, who share an environmental concern about the modern industrial food economy and a religiously grounded commitment to the values of locality, health, and justice, are creating new models for sustainable agrarian lifeways and practices. LeVasseur explores this greening of US religion through an extensive engagement with the scholarly literature on lived religion, network theory, and grounded theory, as well as through ethnographic case studies of two intentional communities at the vanguard of this movement: Koinonia Farm, an ecumenical Christian lay monastic community, and Hazon, a progressive Jewish environmental group.

Religion and Sustainable Agriculture

Author : Todd LeVasseur
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813167981
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Religion and Sustainable Agriculture written by Todd LeVasseur and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2016-10-21 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distinct practices of eating are at the heart of many of the world's faith traditions—from the Christian Eucharist to Muslim customs of fasting during Ramadan to the vegetarianism and asceticism practiced by some followers of Hinduism and Buddhism. What we eat, how we eat, and whom we eat with can express our core values and religious devotion more clearly than verbal piety. In this wide-ranging collection, eminent scholars, theologians, activists, and lay farmers illuminate how religious beliefs influence and are influenced by the values and practices of sustainable agriculture. Together, they analyze a multitude of agricultural practices for their contributions to healthy, ethical living and environmental justice. Throughout, the contributors address current critical issues, including global trade agreements, indigenous rights to land and seed, and the effects of postcolonialism on farming and industry. Covering indigenous, Buddhist, Hindu, Christian, Muslim, and Jewish perspectives, this groundbreaking volume makes a significant contribution to the study of ethics and agriculture.

Agrarian Spirit

Author : Norman Wirzba
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780268203115
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Agrarian Spirit written by Norman Wirzba and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

To the Table

Author : Lisa Graham McMinn
Publisher : Brazos Press
ISBN 13 : 1493401858
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (934 download)

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Download or read book To the Table written by Lisa Graham McMinn and published by Brazos Press. This book was released on 2015-12-29 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the growing farm-to-table movement and popularity of local farmers' markets, we are becoming more conscious of where our food originates. This spirituality of eating and food helps us reflect on current realities and understand how eating forms our souls inwardly, upwardly, and outwardly. The author offers practical guidance on what it means to eat alone or in community with more intention, compassion, humility, and gratitude. She also tells the story of food as it transitions from seed to table. Sidebars contain gardening and food tips, recipes, and food preservation guides. End-of-chapter questions for individual and group use are included.

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Religion and Materiality

Author : Vasudha Narayanan
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118688325
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (186 download)

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Download or read book The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Religion and Materiality written by Vasudha Narayanan and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-04-16 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Religion and Materiality provides a thoughtfully organized, inclusive, and vibrant project of the multiple ways in which religion and materiality intersect. The contributions explore the way that religion is shaped by, and has shaped, the material world, embedding beliefs, doctrines, and texts into social and cultural contexts of production, circulation, and consumption. The Companion not only contains scholarly essays but has an accompanying website to demonstrate the work of performers, architects, and expressive artists, ranging from musicians and dancers to religious practitioners. These examples offer specific illustrations of the interplay of religion and materiality in everyday life. The project is organized from a comparative perspective, highlighting examples and case studies from traditions originating in both East and West. To summarize, the volume: Brings together the leading figures, theories and ideas in the field in a systematic and comprehensive way Offers an interdisciplinary approach drawing together religious studies, anthropology, archaeology, history, sociology, geography, the cognitive sciences, ecology, and media studies Takes a comparative perspective, covering all the major faith traditions

Spiritual Agriculture

Author : Cornerstone Godwin
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book Spiritual Agriculture written by Cornerstone Godwin and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2024-02-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One incontrovertible truth is that the natural atmosphere reflects the spiritual hemisphere to the extent that there is a spiritual dimension of agriculture which I call, Spiritual Agriculture. It has been God's antidote for economic meltdown and global food crises. The fact that Natural Agriculture has failed and can no longer meet the food needs of our world despite all the investments in the sector is glaring. Food crises have remained a recurring decimal, all over the world. The urgency to diversify the agricultural sector, all over the world, from dependence on Natural Agriculture to Spiritual Agriculture has quadrupled mainly because of the debilitating effects of global food scarcity which has become a potent threat to the prospects of human survival and more so because of an impending food crisis that will shake the whole world down to the very foundation. The coming crisis is different from the usual economic problem that can be solved using natural economic expertise. Rather, it is a spiritual adversity that only spiritual capacity and sagacity can resolve. This is not a doomsday prophecy nor is it an empty threat. It is not a threat. It's real. It's a done deal. Heaven is set with the agenda and only those who subscribe to Spiritual Agriculture will have a future to boast of. It's God's divine agenda for the end-time and the purpose is to humble the proud people of the world who take pride in dishonoring God. Men of wealth will be reduced to nothing. People of means will be devastated right before our very eyes. The mighty will be falling in the full glare of the world. Women of power and influence, who were once untouchable, will be shaken out of relevance and significance. The whole world will feel the pangs of hunger in an excruciating dimension. It will be so severe, such that the economies of nations will crumble under its heavy weight. The banking industry will be sorely and surely affected and the value of money will drastically nosedive. Businesses will crash and bankruptcy will become the order of the day. Governments worldwide will be more confused and confounded when they realize that their economic theories are incapable of solving the upcoming spiritual problem. All these coalesce to reveal the incapacitation and limitations of humankind, as mortal beings, to solve the problem - hence the urgent need for a reverse to Divinity, for a spiritual solution which is, Spiritual Agriculture. The supernatural brand of agrarian practices (copiously explained in this book) remains the only antidote for the imminent food holocaust. It is only the spiritual dimension of Agriculture that can resolve the coming global calamity having been proven to be God's antidote for famine all through the ages. Packaged in five knowledge-packed chapters, the book sets out with a conceptual explanation of Spiritual Agriculture in Chapter One by giving the reader an insight into the mystery of this special breed of agriculture. Captioned "Ground Preparation," Chapter Two enlightens the reader on the necessary preliminary agricultural activities that must be carried out - preparatory to the actual cultivation exercise. It also lists six different spiritual grounds for possible cultivations and goes further to highlight their different fertility and productivity potentialities to help you measure and determine your harvest expectations. Chapter Three reveals the cultivation dynamics of Spiritual Agriculture and shows how to implement them in practical terms, in our day-to-day life realities. Chapter Four houses the Pest Control and Prevention techniques while Chapter Five deals with the reward stage of harvest under the title, "Harvest Reception". Spiritual Agriculture will not only help government policymakers, economic advisers, and heads of government but will also benefit states and national governments and leaderships at all levels of engagement.

Food, Farming and Religion

Author : Gretel Van Wieren
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351365355
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)

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Download or read book Food, Farming and Religion written by Gretel Van Wieren and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the religious and ethical consideration of food and eating is not a new phenomenon, the debate about food and eating today is distinctly different from most of what has preceded it in the history of Western culture. Yet the field of environmental ethics, especially religious approaches to environmental ethics, has been slow to see food and agriculture as topics worthy of analysis. This book examines how religious traditions and communities in the United States and beyond are responding to critical environmental ethical issues posed by the global food system. In particular, it looks at the responses that have developed within Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions, and shows how they relate to arguments and approaches in the broader study of food and environmental ethics. It considers topics such as land degradation and restoration, genetically modified organisms and seed consolidation, animal welfare, water use, access, pollution, and climate, and weaves consideration of human wellbeing and justice throughout. In doing so, Gretel Van Wieren proposes a model for conceptualizing agricultural and food practices in sacred terms. This book will appeal to a wide and interdisciplinary audience including those interested in environment and sustainability, food studies, ethics, and religion.

Farming While Black

Author : Leah Penniman
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1603587616
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Farming While Black written by Leah Penniman and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2018 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Farming While Black is the first comprehensive "how to" guide for aspiring African-heritage growers to reclaim their dignity as agriculturists and for all farmers to understand the distinct, technical contributions of African-heritage people to sustainable agriculture. At Soul Fire Farm, author Leah Penniman co-created the Black and Latino Farmers Immersion (BLFI) program as a container for new farmers to share growing skills in a culturally relevant and supportive environment led by people of color. Farming While Black organizes and expands upon the curriculum of the BLFI to provide readers with a concise guide to all aspects of small-scale farming, from business planning to preserving the harvest. Throughout the chapters Penniman uplifts the wisdom of the African diasporic farmers and activists whose work informs the techniques described--from whole farm planning, soil fertility, seed selection, and agroecology, to using whole foods in culturally appropriate recipes, sharing stories of ancestors, and tools for healing from the trauma associated with slavery and economic exploitation on the land. Woven throughout the book is the story of Soul Fire Farm, a national leader in the food justice movement.--AMAZON.

Evolving Brains, Emerging Gods

Author : E. Fuller Torrey
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231544863
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Evolving Brains, Emerging Gods written by E. Fuller Torrey and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religions and mythologies from around the world teach that God or gods created humans. Atheist, humanist, and materialist critics, meanwhile, have attempted to turn theology on its head, claiming that religion is a human invention. In this book, E. Fuller Torrey draws on cutting-edge neuroscience research to propose a startling answer to the ultimate question. Evolving Brains, Emerging Gods locates the origin of gods within the human brain, arguing that religious belief is a by-product of evolution. Based on an idea originally proposed by Charles Darwin, Torrey marshals evidence that the emergence of gods was an incidental consequence of several evolutionary factors. Using data ranging from ancient skulls and artifacts to brain imaging, primatology, and child development studies, this book traces how new cognitive abilities gave rise to new behaviors. For instance, autobiographical memory, the ability to project ourselves backward and forward in time, gave Homo sapiens a competitive advantage. However, it also led to comprehension of mortality, spurring belief in an alternative to death. Torrey details the neurobiological sequence that explains why the gods appeared when they did, connecting archaeological findings including clothing, art, farming, and urbanization to cognitive developments. This book does not dismiss belief but rather presents religious belief as an inevitable outcome of brain evolution. Providing clear and accessible explanations of evolutionary neuroscience, Evolving Brains, Emerging Gods will shed new light on the mechanics of our deepest mysteries.

Agriculture

Author : Rudolf Steiner
Publisher : SteinerBooks
ISBN 13 : 1621511758
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (215 download)

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Download or read book Agriculture written by Rudolf Steiner and published by SteinerBooks. This book was released on 1993 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With this remarkable series of lectures presented in Koberwitz, Silesia, June 7-16, 1924, Rudolf Steiner founded biodynamic agriculture. They contain profound insights into farming, the plant and animal world, the nature of organic chemistry, and the influences of heavenly bodies. This translation from the original German by Catherine E. Creeger and Malcolm Gardner is a fundamental text for many intermediate and advanced students of biodynamic agriculture -- one to which the biodynamic practitioner will refer again and again over the years. In addition to the eight lectures, this version includes four discussions by Steiner, color plates of Steiner's chalk drawings, the address to the members of the Agricultural Experimental Circle, Steiner's report to members of the Anthroposophical Society after the lectures, Steiner's handwritten notes to the Agriculture Course, further agricultural indications given by Steiner, and "New Directions in Agriculture," by Ehrenfried Pfeiffer (a colleague of Steiner's who brought biodynamic agriculture to North America).

Agriculture and Spirituality

Author : International Books
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Agriculture and Spirituality written by International Books and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Besides the three lectures from the symposium "Inter(agri)cultural Dialogue: Agriculture and spirituality", 5 articles are included, surveying the links between agriculture and spirituality, and attempts to help develop and restore the discourse on spirituality and agriculture

Of the Land and the Spirit

Author : Lord Northbourne
Publisher : World Wisdom, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1933316616
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (333 download)

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Download or read book Of the Land and the Spirit written by Lord Northbourne and published by World Wisdom, Inc. This book was released on 2008 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-five years before Rachel Carson published her famous work "Silent Spring," Lord Northbourne helped to promote the importance of a holistic approach to the environment. This book not only features Northbourne's previously unpublished writings, but also his private correspondence with Thomas Merton.

Religion and Agriculture. Sustainability in Christianity and Buddhism

Author : Lindsay Falvey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783668267824
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (678 download)

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Download or read book Religion and Agriculture. Sustainability in Christianity and Buddhism written by Lindsay Falvey and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-22 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research Paper from the year 2005 in the subject Sociology - Religion, language: English, abstract: Science and religion are natural bedfellows kept apart by the prissy maiden-aunt of modern convention to the detriment of the very culture of both. Nowhere is this more evident than in the long religious history of our self-understanding and the environmental manipulation that we term the science of agriculture. A means of redressing this is sometimes felt to exist in 'sustainability' - though we do not know what it really means. This book uses sustainability as the meeting point of science and religion. It does this by accepting that human knowledge is ontained in spiritual wisdom at least as much as in scientific insight and by using both to examine the elusive subject of sustainability. One purpose of this book is therefore to highlight forgotten human resources that are ever at our disposal. To this end, it brings Eastern and Western insights to the subject of science and sustainability through consideration of differen religious teachings. The approach of the book itself borrows from that Oriental discourse which treats a subject from multiple perspectives without dismissing conflicting views. From such an apporach, a higher level of understanding can be revealed - perhaps even truth - in which conflicts dissolve into unity.

Agriculture, Spiritual-Scientific Foundations

Author : Rudolf Steiner
Publisher : Rudolf Steiner Press
ISBN 13 : 1855846667
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (558 download)

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Download or read book Agriculture, Spiritual-Scientific Foundations written by Rudolf Steiner and published by Rudolf Steiner Press. This book was released on 2024-10-21 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One hundred years after Rudolf Steiner presented his lectures on agriculture in 1924, the impact of his words are self-evident. Around the world, biodynamic principles are practised in thousands of thriving farms, vineyards and gardens, and Demeter certification for biodynamic produce is recognized internationally as a mark of quality. Speaking to a modest audience of farmers in a village in modern-day Poland, Steiner launched the first organic agricultural movement. But what has come to be known as ‘biodynamics’ is distinguished by many unique aspects, including the use of herbal and mineral ‘preparations’ (which serve as dynamizing applications for compost and field sprays) and the concept of the farm or garden as a single living organism, encompassing animals, crops, soil and community. This definitive, centenary edition of the influential Agriculture Course has been reedited from primary sources to be as faithful as possible to Steiner’s original meaning. Shorthand reports have been freshly transcribed, archival discoveries added, and fresh commentary and notes inserted. In addition to the original eight lectures and four discussions, this volume features a wealth of new texts, including notes, addresses and resolutions relating to the Experimental Circle – founded contemporaneously to bridge research and practice – comprehensive facsimiles of Rudolf Steiner’s preparatory notes for the course; original programmes and attendee lists; questions sent in advance; written and verbal reports by Steiner, including his address to young people; photos of Koberwitz, and high-quality colour plates of his original blackboard drawings. Eight lectures, four question-and-answer sessions, Koberwitz, June 1924, GA 327