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The Noetics of Nature: Environmental Philosophy and the Holy Beauty of the Visible
Contemplative or \"noetic\" knowledge has traditionally been seen as the highest mode of understanding, a view that persists both in many non-Western cultures and in Eastern Christianity, where \"theoria physike,\" or the illumined understanding of creation that follows the purification of the heart, is seen to provide deeper insights into nature than the discursive rationality modernity has used to dominate and conquer it. Working from texts in Eastern Orthodox philosophy and theology not widely known in the West, as well as a variety of sources including mystics such as the Sufi Ibn 'Arabi, poets such as Basho, Traherne, Blake, Holderlin, and Hopkins, and nature writers such as Muir, Thoreau, and Dillard, The Noetics of Nature challenges both the primacy of the natural sciences in environmental thought and the conventional view, first advanced by Lynn White, Jr., that Christian theology is somehow responsible for the environmental crisis. Instead, Foltz concludes that the ancient Christian view of creation as iconic its \"holy beauty\" manifesting the divine energies and constituting a primal mode of divine revelation offers the best prospect for the radical reversal that is needed in our relation to the natural environment.
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Ecotheology in the humanities
This book is a collection of essays about the interaction between God, humans, and nature in the context of the environmental challenges and Biblical studies.Chapters include topics on creation care and Sabbath, sacramental approaches to earth care, classical and medieval cosmologies, ecotheodicy, how we understand the problem of nonhuman.
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Learning love from a tiger : religious experiences with nature
\"Learning Love from a Tiger explores the vibrancy and variety of humans' sacred encounters with the natural world, gathering a range of stories culled from Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Mayan, Himalayan, Buddhist, and Chinese shamanic traditions. Readers will delight in tales of house cats who teach monks how to meditate, rivers that grant salvation, shamans who shape-shift into jaguars, crickets who perform Catholic mass, and many others. More than a collection of wonderful stories, this book introduces important concepts and approaches that underlie much recent work in environmental ethics, religion, and ecology. Capper's light touch prompts readers to engage their own views of humanity's place in the natural world and in particular question longstanding assumptions of human superiority\"--Provided by publisher.
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Faith in Nature
The human impulse to religion--the drive to explain the world, humans, and humans' place in the universe - can be seen to encompass environmentalism as an offshoot of the secular, material faith in human reason and power that dominates modern society.Faith in Naturetraces the history of environmentalism--and its moral thrust--from its roots in the Enlightenment and Romanticism through the Progressive Era to the present. Drawing astonishing parallels between religion and environmentalism, the book examines the passion of the movement's adherents and enemies alike, its concern with the moral conduct of daily life, and its attempt to answer fundamental questions about the underlying order of the world and of humanity's place within it.
Thomas Dunlap is among the leading environmental historians and historians of science in the United States. Originally trained as a chemist, he has a rigorous understanding of science and appreciates its vital importance to environmental thought. But he is also a devout Catholic who believes that the insights of religious revelation need not necessarily be at odds with the insights of scientific investigation. This book grew from his own religious journey and his attempts to understand human ethical obligations and spiritual debts to the natural world.
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2005
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Early Buddhism as Philosophy of Existence
Philosophical liberalism is the dominant view in the world today. Even those who reject liberalism philosophically, subscribe to its view of freedom, which is a negative view, common to liberalism, libertarianism, and anarchism. The alternative is recognition of nature, thoroughly, applied fully to human beings. The Buddha set it out as a philosophy, and he lived it. It was a practice.
It brings death back into life. The common view is that death is the opposite of life. Yet death is part of life, from the beginning. We see this in many great writers, Dostoevsky, for example. His characters find human communion in suffering, despite their differences. Contradictions are inherent in life, but we find our way, not a single way. It brings realism back, which is truth.
It has been present in human societies throughout history. It has been banished because of a false view of truth, connected to a false view of freedom. It could be recognized as philosophy. The Buddha taught people simply. There was no dogma. He did not teach them to follow him but to be masters of their own salvation. Unless this view is recognized as Philosophy, as it should be, including truth, it will again become religion, rather than a way of life, an art of living.
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Deep Blue
Nature religions look to rivers, lakes and oceans for inspiration and spiritual transformation. 'Deep Blue' brings together the work of influential scholars in the field of nature religion, ranging across anthropology, mythology, sociology and psychology. The essays examine the interrelationship between spiritual practice, critical thinking, and environmental concern. Tracing the ancient history of humanity's close relationship with both salt and fresh water, the book calls for a sustainable relationship with water in contemporary western culture. 'Deep Blue' will be of interest to students of paganism and religion, environmental researchers and activists, and all those involved in the intersection between religion and ecology.
InvocationAuthor BiographiesArtist's statementPrefaceGraham HarveyIntroduction: Sacred WatersSylvie Shaw and Andrew FrancisSection One - Entering Sacred SpaceEditor's Introduction1. 'Singing through the Sea'. Song, Sea and EmotionJohn Bradley2. Water of Life, Water of Death: Pagan Notions of Water from Antiquity to TodayDieter Gerten3. The Fertility Goddess of the Zulu: Reflections on a calling to Inkosazana's PoolPenny Bernard4. Rivers of Memory, Lakes of Survival - Indigenous Water Traditions and the Anishinaabeg NationMelissa NelsonSection Two - Divine ConnectionsEditor's Introduction5. Creature of WaterAndrew Francis6. SaltWater Feet: The Flow of Dance in OceaniaKaterina Martina Teaiwa7. I am the River BleedingDouglas Ezzy8. Deep Blue ReligionSylvie ShawSection Three - The Sacredness of WaterEditor's Introduction9. The Spirit of the Edge: Rachel Carson and Numinous Experience between Land and SeaSusan Bratton10. The Mystery of WatersVivianne Crowley11. Sister Water: An Introduction to Blue TheologyMeg Ferris12. Sea Spirituality, Surfing and Aquatic Nature ReligionBron TaylorSection Four - Waves of Energy: In Defence of WaterEditor's Introduction13. Animism, Economics and Sustainable Water DevelopmentDavid Groenfeldt14. Blue, Green and Red: Combining Energies in Defence of WaterVeronica Strang15. Neglect and Reclamation of Water as Sacred ResourceMichael YorkEco-logueAnd in Me You Find PeaceAdrianne HarrisClose
Sylvie Shaw, University of Queensland, and Andrew Francis, RMIT University, Australia.
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