| Description |
xv, 181 pages ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-181) and index. |
| Contents |
Traditional religion in the modern world -- Religion in the global human community -- Alienation -- Historical and contemporary spirituality -- The spirituality of the Earth -- Religion in the twenty-first century -- Religion in the ecozoic era -- The Gaia hypothesis : its religious implications -- The cosmology of religions -- An ecologically sensitive spirituality -- The universe as divine manifestation -- The sacred universe -- The world of wonder. |
| Summary |
A leading scholar, cultural historian, and Catholic priest who spent more than fifty years writing about our engagement with the Earth, the author 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 his 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, the author resituates the human spirit within a sacred totality. |
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Spirituality.
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Spirituality. |
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Religion.
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Religion. |
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Religions.
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Religions. |
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Cosmology.
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Cosmology. |
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Evolution.
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Evolution. |
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Philosophical anthropology.
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Philosophical anthropology. |
| ISBN |
9780231149525 cloth |
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0231149522 cloth |
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9780231520645 e-book |
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0231520646 e-book |
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