| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 278 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Building the bridge : connecting science, religion, and spirituality with the natural world / Timothy J. Farnham, Stephen R. Kellert -- Scientific and spiritual perspectives of nature and humanity. Introduction to part 1. Ethics and the good in nature and humanity / Richard J. Wood -- The contribution of scientific understandings of nature to moral, spiritual, and religious wholeness and well-being / Ursula Goodenough -- Spiritual and religious perspectives of creation and scientific understanding of nature / Calvin B. DeWitt -- Values, ethics, and spiritual and scientific relations to nature / Stephen R. Kellert -- Religion and ecology : the interaction of cosmology and cultivation / Mary Evelyn Tucker -- Gaia and the ethical abyss : a natural ethic is a G[o]od thing / Dorion Sagan, Lynn Margulis -- Religious meanings for nature and humanity / Margaret A. Farley -- A Livable future : linking geology and theology / George W. Fisher -- Alma Dea̓tei, "the world that is coming" : reflections on power, knowledge, wisdom, and progress / Jeremy Benstein -- Linking spiritual and scientific perspectives with an environmental ethic. Introduction to part 2. The Search for harmony / William H. Meadows -- Work, worship, and the natural world : a challenge for the land use professions / Robert Perschel -- Leopold's Darwin : climbing mountains, developing land / Strachan Donnelley -- A Rising tide for ethics / Dave Preble, Carl Safina -- Hunting for spirituality : an oxymoron? / David Petersen -- The Idea of a local economy / Wendell Berry -- From the perspective of the storyteller. The Garden of delights : a reading from Leap / Terry Tempest Williams -- The Mappist / Barry Lopez |
| Summary |
The good in nature and humanity brings together 20 leading thinkers and writers - including Ursula Goodenough, Lynn Margulis, Dorion Sagan, Carl Safina, David Petersen, Wendell Berry, Terry Tempest Williams, and Barry Lopez - to examine the divide between faith and reason, and to seek a means for developing an environmental ethic that will help us confront two of our most imperiling crises: global environmental destruction and an impoverished spirituality. The book explores the ways in which science, spirit, and religion can guide the experience and understanding of our ongoing relationship with the natural world and examines how the integration of science and spirituality can equip us to make wiser choices in using and managing the natural environment. The book also provides compelling stories that offer a narrative understanding of the relations among science, spirit, and nature. Grounded in the premise that neither science nor religion can by itself resolve the prevailing malaise of environmental and moral decline, contributors seek viable approaches to averting environmental catastrophe and, to achieving a more harmonious relationship with the natural world |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-259) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Religion and science.
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Nature -- Religious aspects.
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Human ecology -- Religious aspects.
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Religion and Science
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- General.
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RELIGION -- Christian Life -- Social Issues.
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Human ecology -- Religious aspects
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Nature -- Religious aspects
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Religion and science
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Religion
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Naturwissenschaften
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Humanökologie
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Éthique environnementale.
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Protection de la nature.
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Relation homme-nature.
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Religion.
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Science (Connaissance scientifique)
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Spiritualité
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Kellert, Stephen R.
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Farnham, Timothy J.
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| ISBN |
1559638389 |
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9781559638388 |
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1423707893 |
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9781423707899 |
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9781610910767 |
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1610910761 |
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