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Author Nasr, Seyyed Hossein.

Title Religion & the order of nature / Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Published New York : Oxford University Press, 1996

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Description 1 online resource (310 pages)
Contents Machine generated contents note: 1. Religion and Religions -- 2. Order of Nature -- 3. Philosophy and the Misdeeds of Philosophy -- 4. Traditional Sciences, the Scientific Revolution, and Its Aftermath -- 5. Tragic Consequences of Humanism in the West -- 6. Rediscovery of Nature: Religion and the Environmental Crisis -- 7. Wisdom of the Body -- 8. Religion and the Resacralization of Nature
Summary Nasr argues that the current ecological crisis has been exacerbated by the reductionist view of nature that has been advanced by modern secular science. What is needed, he believes is the recovery of the belief that nature is sacred
Notes "The 1994 Cadbury lectures at the University of Birmingham."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Nature -- Religious aspects.
Religion and science.
Holy, The.
Philosophy of nature.
Environmental ethics.
Human ecology -- Religious aspects.
RELIGION -- Comparative Religion.
Environmental ethics
Holy, The
Human ecology -- Religious aspects
Nature -- Religious aspects
Philosophy of nature
Religion and science
Form Electronic book
ISBN 142375929X
9781423759294
1280452374
9781280452376
9780195108231
019510823X
Other Titles Religion and the order of nature
Cadbury lectures