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Sacred custodians of the earth? : women, spirituality and the environment /

"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Low, Alaine M., Tremayne, Soraya
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, 2001.
Colección:ACLS Humanities E-Book (Series)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Alaine Low and Soraya Tremayne
  • PART I
  • THE CURRENT DEBATE
  • Gender, Nature and Trouble with Anti-Dualism
  • Cecile Jackson
  • PART II
  • THE SACRED
  • Sacred Landscapes: Religion and the Natural Environment in the Classical World
  • Elena Kingdon
  • Aboriginal Women and Sacred Landscapes in Northern Australia
  • Veronica Strang
  • The Separation of the Sexes Among Siberian Reindeer
  • Herders Piers Vitebsky and Sally Wolfe
  • Priestesses and Environment in Zimbabwe
  • Terence Ranger
  • Rice, Women, Men, and the Natural Environment among the Kelabit of Sarawak
  • Monica Janowski
  • PART III
  • THE GREAT RELIGIONS
  • Ecology and Christian Hierarchy
  • Anne Primavesi
  • Text and Practice: Women and Nature in Islam
  • Tahera Aftab
  • Soil as the Goddess Bhudevi in a Tamil Hindu Women's Ritual: The Kolam in India
  • Vijaya Rettakudi Nagarajan
  • Nature and Gender in Theravada Buddhism
  • Sandra Bell
  • Nature, Holism and Ecofeminism: A Chinese Worldview
  • Stewart McFarlane
  • PART IV
  • NEW TRENDS
  • Children of the Gods The Quest for Wholeness in Contemporary Paganism
  • Amy Simes.