Ecospirit : Religions and Philosophies for the Earth
We hope?even as we doubt?that the environmental crisis can be controlled. Public awareness of our species? self-destructiveness as material beings in a material world is growing?but so is the destructiveness. The practical interventions needed for saving and restoring the earth will require a collec...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bronx :
Fordham University Press,
2007.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | We hope?even as we doubt?that the environmental crisis can be controlled. Public awareness of our species? self-destructiveness as material beings in a material world is growing?but so is the destructiveness. The practical interventions needed for saving and restoring the earth will require a collective shift of such magnitude as to take on a spiritual and religious intensity. This transformation has in part already begun. Traditions of ecological theology and ecologically aware religious practice have been preparing the way for decades. Yet these traditions still remain marginal to society, ac. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (544 pages). |
ISBN: | 9780823227471 |