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Author Bergmann, S

Title Nature, Space and the Sacred : Transdisciplinary Perspectives
Published Florence : Taylor and Francis, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (361 pages)
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; List of Contributors; 1 Editorial; 2 Nature, Space and the Sacred: Introductory Remarks; PART A EARTHING THE SACRED; 3 Transforming the Theological Climate in Response to Climate Change: Jesus and the Mystery of Giving; 4 The Whole Household of God: The Use of the Oikos Metaphor in the Built and the Non-Built Environment; 5 Interpreting Heaven and Earth: The Theological Construction of Nature, Place, and the Built Environment; PART B ETHICS IN NATURAL AND BUILT SPACE
6 Atmospheric Space, Climate Change and the Communion of Saints7 Biodiversity and Christian Ethics: A Critical Discussion; 8 Master of the Universe or the Humble Servant: How the Concept of Sustainable Development is Affecting Our Understanding of Humanity and Nature; 9 The Proper Praise for an Architecture of the Improper -- Joseph Beuys: Building with Butter; 10 Ideal Landscapes -- Landscape Design Between Beauty and Meaning; 11 The Altar of the Dead: A Temporal Space for Memory and Meaning in the Contemporary Urban Landscape; PART C NATURE AS ENTANGLEMENT
12 The Wedge and the Knot: Hammering and Stitching the Face of Nature13 Knowing Natural Spaces: Reinterpreting Deep Ecology as Phenomenology; 14 Seeking Transformation in a Consumer World: Can We Achieve a Unity of Ends and Means?; 15 Restoring or Restorying Nature?; PART D SACRED GEOGRAPHIES; 16 Indigenous Embodied Knowing: A Study in Crow/Apsaalooke Space, Nature, and the Sacred; 17 Natural Sacred Places in Landscape: An Estonian Model; 18 The Domestic Order and its Feral Threat: The Intellectual Heritage of the Neolithic Landscape
19 Sacred Sites in Kyrgyzstan: Spiritual Mission, Health and Pilgrimage20 Keeping the Sacred Secret: Pilgrims' Voices at Sacred Sites in Kyrgyzstan; PART E TURNING TO THE EAST; 21 Touching the Depths of Things: Cultivating Nature in the Thought of Wang Yangming; 22 Stone and Sacred Space in China and Japan: Implications for our Treatment of the Earth; 23 The Way Forward? Shinto and a Twenty-First Century Japanese Ecological Attitude; Index
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Form Electronic book
Author Bedford-Strohm, H
Scott, P. M
Jansdotter, M
ISBN 9781351915687
1351915681