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Dark Green Religion
''Dark Green Religion: Nature Spirituality and the Planetary Future'' is a 2009 book by the American scholar and conservationist Bron Taylor. It is about environmentalism and religiosity and argues that modern interpretations of ecology have spawned a new, global religion which attributes intrinsic value to nature. The book has been criticised for its reliance on family resemblance but its concept of ''dark green religion'' has impacted several academic fields and been described as a useful tool for analysis. Background Bron Taylor is an American scholar and conservationist who was trained as a sociologist of religion. Attached to the University of Florida, his research has focused on religion, ecology, environmental ethics and the history and ethnography of environmentalism, surf culture and what he calls "earth-based spirituality". Before the publication of ''Dark Green Religion: Nature Spirituality and the Planetary Future'', his influence on his fields included his role as e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bron Taylor
Bron Raymond Taylor (born 15 April 1955) is an American scholar and conservationist. He is professor of religion and nature at the University of Florida and has also been an affiliated scholar with the Center for Environment and Development at the University of Oslo. Taylor works principally in the areas of religion and ecology, environmental ethics and environmental philosophy. He is also a prominent historian and ethnographer of environmentalism and especially radical environmentalist movements, surfing culture and nature-based spiritualities. Taylor is also editor-in-chief of the ''Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature'' and subsequently founded the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, serving as its president from 2006 to 2009. He also founded the society's affiliated ''Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture'', serving as its editor since 2007. Dark green religion Taylor is credited with coining the term "dark green religion" or " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Journal Of The American Academy Of Religion
The ''Journal of the American Academy of Religion'', formerly the ''Journal of Bible and Religion'', is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Academy of Religion (AAR). The ''JAAR'' was established in 1966, and like the AAR itself, emphasizes a more inclusive religious studies approach to religion (that may encompass history, philosophy, and theology) rather than a narrower approach emphasizing only social science. It is generally considered the flagship journal for the field of religious studies. It covers current work in religious studies, including the full range of world religious traditions, methodological studies, and book reviews. Abstracting and indexing The journal is abstracted and indexed by the Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Book Review Index, British Humanities Index, Current Contents/Arts & Humanities, Humanities Index, International Bibliography of Book Reviews, International Bibliography of Periodic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nature And Religion
Nature is an inherent character or constitution, particularly of the ecosphere or the universe as a whole. In this general sense nature refers to the laws, elements and phenomena of the physical world, including life. Although humans are part of nature, human activity or humans as a whole are often described as at times at odds, or outright separate and even superior to nature. During the advent of modern scientific method in the last several centuries, nature became the passive reality, organized and moved by divine laws. With the Industrial Revolution, nature increasingly became seen as the part of reality deprived from intentional intervention: it was hence considered as sacred by some traditions (Rousseau, American transcendentalism) or a mere decorum for divine providence or human history (Hegel, Marx). However, a vitalist vision of nature, closer to the pre-Socratic one, got reborn at the same time, especially after Charles Darwin. Within the various uses of the word t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Environmentalism And Religion
Religion and environmentalism is an emerging interdisciplinary subfield in the academic disciplines of religious studies, religious ethics, the sociology of religion, and theology amongst others, with environmentalism and ecological principles as a primary focus. Within the context of Christianity, in the encyclical "Laudato si'", Pope Francis called to fight climate change and ecological degradation as a whole. He claimed that humanity is facing a severe ecological crisis and blamed consumerism and irresponsible development. The encyclical is addressed to "every person living on this planet." Buddhism includes many principles linked to sustainability. The Dalai Lama has consistently called for strong climate action, reforestation, preserving ecosystems, a reduction in meat consumption. He declared that if he will ever join a political party it will be the green party and if Buddha returned to our world now: "Buddha would be green." The leaders of Buddhism issued a special decla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2009 Non-fiction Books
9 (nine) is the natural number following and preceding . Evolution of the Hindu–Arabic digit Circa 300 BC, as part of the Brahmi numerals, various Indians wrote a digit 9 similar in shape to the modern closing question mark without the bottom dot. The Kshatrapa, Andhra and Gupta started curving the bottom vertical line coming up with a -look-alike. How the numbers got to their Gupta form is open to considerable debate. The Nagari continued the bottom stroke to make a circle and enclose the 3-look-alike, in much the same way that the sign @ encircles a lowercase ''a''. As time went on, the enclosing circle became bigger and its line continued beyond the circle downwards, as the 3-look-alike became smaller. Soon, all that was left of the 3-look-alike was a squiggle. The Arabs simply connected that squiggle to the downward stroke at the middle and subsequent European change was purely cosmetic. While the shape of the glyph for the digit 9 has an ascender in most modern typef ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Animism
Animism (from meaning 'breath, spirit, life') is the belief that objects, places, and creatures all possess a distinct spiritual essence. Animism perceives all things—animals, plants, rocks, rivers, weather systems, human handiwork, and in some cases words—as being animated, having agency and free will. Animism is used in anthropology of religion as a term for the belief system of many Indigenous peoples in contrast to the relatively more recent development of organized religions. Animism is a metaphysical belief which focuses on the supernatural universe: specifically, on the concept of the immaterial soul. Although each culture has its own mythologies and rituals, animism is said to describe the most common, foundational thread of indigenous peoples' "spiritual" or "supernatural" perspectives. The animistic perspective is so widely held and inherent to most indigenous peoples that they often do not even have a word in their languages that corresponds to "animism" (o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Powers
Richard Powers (born June 18, 1957) is an American novelist whose works explore the effects of modern science and technology. His novel ''The Echo Maker'' won the 2006 National Book Award for Fiction."National Book Awards – 2006" National Book Foundation. Retrieved March 27, 2012. (With linked information including essay by Harold Augenbraum from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog.) He has also won many other awards over the course of his career, including a MacArthur Fellowship. As of 2024, Powers has published fourteen novels and has taught at the University of Illinois System, University of Illinois and Stanford University. He won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for ''The Overstory''. Life and work Early life One of five c ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Overstory
''The Overstory'' is a novel by American author Richard Powers, published in 2018 by W. W. Norton & Company. The book follows nine Americans whose unique life experiences with trees bring them together to address the destruction of forests. Through interwoven narratives spanning multiple generations, the novel explores themes of environmental activism, the interconnectedness of living things, and humanity's relationship with the natural world. The book received widespread critical acclaim and won several major literary awards, including the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the 2020 William Dean Howells Medal. It was shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker Prize. Critics praised Powers's narrative structure, focus on environmental themes, and his ability to weave together scientific facts about trees with human drama. A television adaptation is in development by Netflix, with David Benioff, D.B. Weiss, and Hugh Jackman serving as executive producers. Plot summary ''The Overstor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kocku Von Stuckrad
Kocku von Stuckrad (born 6 April 1966) is a German scholar of religious studies. He specialises in the European history of religion and the academic study of Western esotericism. Biography Kocku von Stuckrad was born in Kpando, Ghana on 6 April 1966. He is a professor of religious studies at the University of Groningen. His research has focused on the European history of religion, Western esotericism, the connections between religion, nature, and science, and on methodological and theoretical approaches to the study of religion. Stuckrad's approach to the academic study of Western esotericism focuses on claims of perfect or higher knowledge, rather than particular esoteric movements, and he has argued that secrecy should be regarded as one of the defining characteristics of the field. He has criticised the academic field of Western esotericism for having failed to produce sufficient critical examination of its key concepts from historical, sociological, and cultural perspecti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Studies In Religion
''Studies in Religion/'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes papers in English and French in the field of theology. The editors-in-chief are Alain Bouchard () and Patricia Dold (Memorial University of Newfoundland). It was established 1971 and is currently published by SAGE Publications on behalf of the Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion. Abstracting and indexing ''Studies in Religion / Sciences Religieuses'' is abstracted and indexed in: * Arts and Humanities Citation Index * Current Contents ''Current Contents'' is a rapid alerting service database from Clarivate, formerly the Institute for Scientific Information and Thomson Reuters. It is published online and in several different printed subject sections. History ''Current Contents .../Arts & Humanities * International Review of Biblical Studies * Religious and Theological Abstracts * Theology Digest External links * Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion SAGE Publishing ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Versluis
Arthur Versluis (born 1959) is a professor and Department Chair of Religious Studies in the College of Arts & Letters at Michigan State University. Academic career Versluis did his Ph.D research at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His thesis ''Ex oriente lux: American Transcendentalism and the Orient'' (1990) was published in 1993 as ''American Transcendentalism and Asian Religions''. Research topics Versluis' research focuses on western esotericism and magic (paranormal), magic, with a special interest in the influence of Platonism on western mysticism and American Transcendentalism.''American Gurus: Seven Questions for Arthur Versluis'' Transcendentalism and American esotericism Versluis has published a "tril ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orion (magazine)
''Orion'' is an advertisement-free nonprofit quarterly magazine focused on nature, culture, and place addressing environmental and social issues. It is published quarterly. In 2010, ''Orion'' was the recipient of ''Utne Reader'' magazine's Utne Independent Press Award for General Excellence. Orion Book Award Since 2007, the magazine has administered an annual book award competition, which is described by the magazine as "given annually to a book that addresses the human relationship with the natural world in a fresh, thought provoking, and engaging manner. Four additional books are named as finalists." References External links * Online magazines published in the United States Cultural magazines published in the United States Environmental magazines Magazines established in 1982 American environmental websites Bimonthly magazines published in the United States Magazines published in Massachusetts Advertising-free magazines 1982 establishments in the United States {{s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
