Ecology and the environment : perspectives from the humanities

Ecology and the environment : perspectives from the humanities / edited by Donald K. Swearer with Susan Lloyd McGarry.

"Examines ethical, religious, and aesthetic dimensions of the environment from several different disciplines related to the humanities including anthropology, literature, philosophy, religious studies, and history, with examples drawn from Confucianism, aboriginal Australia, Moby-Dick, liberal...

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Other Authors: Swearer, Donald K., 1934-, McGarry, Susan Lloyd
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard Divinity School : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2009.
Series:Religions of the world and ecology.
Subjects:
Environmental sciences.
Environmental ethics.
Environmental sciences > Religious aspects.
Environment (Aesthetics)
Human ecology > Religious aspects.
Humanities.
Table of Contents:
  • Literature as environmental(ist) thought experiment / Lawrence Buell
  • Nature, liberty, and equality / Donald Worster
  • Touching the depths of things : cultivating nature in East Asia / Mary Evelyn Tucker
  • Interiority regained : integral ecology and environmental ethics / Michael E. Zimmerman
  • From the ground up : dark green religion and the environmental future / Bon Taylor
  • Cultural readings of the "natural" world / Michael Jackson.

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