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When God was a bird : Christianity, animism, and the re-enchantment of the world /
At one time, God was a bird. In ancient Egypt, Thoth was the Ibis-headed divinity of magic & wisdom. Winged divine beings populated the pantheon of Greek antiquity, & Quetzalcoatl was the plumed serpent deity of the pre-Columbian Aztecs. It is said that in spite of, or better, to spite, this...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2019.
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| Edición: | First edition. |
| Colección: | Groundworks: ecological issues in philosophy and theology.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; Half Title; Series Announcement Page; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Introduction: Crossing the Species Divide; The Animal God; Animism; Feral Religion; God of Beak and Feathers; 1. Song of the Wood Thrush; The Singing Monk of the Crum Woods; Nature Religion; The Pigeon God; Sacred Animals; Christian Animism; Divine Subscendence; Avian Spirit Possession; Return to the Crum Woods; 2. The Delaware River Basin; Toxic Tour; Heidegger's Root Metaphors; Calling Spirit from the Deep; Sacrament of Dirt and Spit; Girard's Fear of Monstrous Couplings; Green Mimesis
- The Pileated Woodpecker3. Worshipping the Green God; Crum Creek Visitation; Christian History; Jesus and Sacred Land; Augustine and Natalist Wonder; Hildegard's Viriditas Pneumatology; Rewilding Christian Worship; 4. "Come Suck Sequoia and Be Saved"; John Muir's Christianimism; Indian Removal in Yosemite; The Great Code; The Water Ouzel; The Two Books; Sequoia Religion; "Christianity and Mountainanity Are Streams from the Same Fountain"; 5. On the Wings of a Dove; Sagebrush Requiem; Is Earth a Living Being?; Suffering Earth; Refreshment and Fragrance in the Hills; A Tramp for God
- The Death of God; God on the Wing; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index; Series Page