Ecomysticism

Author : Carl von Essen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-19
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781591439660

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Ecomysticism by Carl von Essen Pdf

Explores the philosophy, science, and spirituality of nature mysticism and its Green calling • Offers a solid bridge between spiritual practice and environmental activism • Reveals how we can heal the environment by renewing our connection to it • Shows how spiritual encounters in nature are healing the Nature Deficit Disorder of our psyches and bodies Many have been struck by a majestic moment in nature--a sole illuminated flower in a shady grove, an owl swooping silently across a wooded path, or an infinitely starry sky--and found themselves in a state of expanded awareness so profound they can feel the interconnectedness of all life. These trance-like moments of clarity, unity, and wonder often incite a call to protect and preserve the earth--to support Nature as she supports us. Termed “nature mysticism,” people from all cultures have described such experiences. However, the ever-increasing urbanization of the world’s population is threatening this ancient connection as well as the earth itself. In Ecomysticism, Carl von Essen explores nature mysticism through the recorded experiences of outdoor enthusiasts as well as scientific studies in biology, psychology, and neuroscience. Citing consciousness scholar William James and a variety of well-known nature lovers such as Ansel Adams, Henry David Thoreau, and Ralph Waldo Emerson, von Essen shows how the spiritual transcendence from an encounter in nature--like other mystical experiences--is healing the Nature Deficit Disorder of our psyches and bodies, leading to an expansion of our worldview and a clearer understanding of our self and of our natural world. Offering a solid bridge between spiritual practice and environmental activism, von Essen’s spiritual ecology reveals how only through a renewal of humanity’s spiritual connection to nature can we effect true environmental healing.

Author : Mary C. Grey
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0800636473

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Sacred Longings by Mary C. Grey Pdf

""This book explores what is happening to the human spirit in a culture shaped and driven by [globalization], a culture where dreams, imaginations and desires are all manipulated...." What do we really want? Noted theologian Mary Grey believes we have gotten out of touch with our deepest desires and that the root problem is our acquiescence in global capitalism's most problematic characteristics. Story and symbol, she argues, can put us back in touch with out "sacred longings." Focusing on such simple yet profound symbols as water, light, and sacred space, she tries to reinstill a spiritual quest. In the end, she envisions spirituality--a kind of ecomystical renewal--as an element in the transformation of desire, lived out in Christian community. "For desire to be reborn, for sacred longings even to be named, not to mention fulfilled, there needs to be an embracing of the way of renunciation, simplicity and sacrifice. And that is counter-cultural..." As Part One looks at how our culture has lost heart, and Part Two analyzes are restless hearts, Part Three asks us to take heart and rekindle our thirst for righteousness.

Author : Judith Rauscher
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783839469347

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Ecopoetic Place-Making by Judith Rauscher Pdf

American ecopoetries of migration explore the conflicted relationships of mobile subjects to the nonhuman world and thus offer valuable environmental insight for our current age of mass mobility and global ecological crisis. In Ecopoetic Place-Making, Judith Rauscher analyzes the works of five contemporary American poets of migration, drawing from ecocriticism and mobility studies. The poets discussed in her study challenge exclusionary notions of place-attachment and engage in ecopoetic place-making from different perspectives of mobility, testifying to the potential of poetry as a means of conceptualizing alternative environmental imaginaries for our contemporary world on the move.

Author : Rachel Wheeler
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781506473871

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Ecospirituality by Rachel Wheeler Pdf

Ecospirituality, for the first time, comprehensively introduces and lays the foundation for further individual growth in the burgeoning field of ecospirituality. Rachel Wheeler covers the background for environmentally oriented spirituality in the Christian tradition, beginning with expressions of creation care and creation degradation in the Judeo-Christian Scriptures, and moving through important moments and figures in the history of Christian spirituality. With this foundation in place, she reveals how expressions of renewed interest in creation care are showing up amid our compromised living habitats today, and shows what ideas laid the groundwork for beginning to speak of God, human identity, and human responsibility in certain ways. Turning to ecospiritual practice, Wheeler presents specific practices from a variety of global religious traditions, paying particular attention to Indigenous spiritual traditions. She also explores interdisciplinary areas that have combined some essential aspects of their own focus of engagement with ecology and, furthermore, with ecospirituality. Such areas as ecojustice, ecofeminism, ecowomanism, and ecopoetics all provide points of contact with the work that ecospirituality makes possible and have important implications for personal and social transformation. Wheeler's concise introduction to ecospirituality is not only a foundation-laying tool for educators, but also a concise, thorough way for individuals and students to gain a comprehensive understanding of ecospirituality and why it matters.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : American literature
ISBN : IND:30000152507764

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Western American Literature by Anonim Pdf

Author : W. Warren Wagar
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1999-08
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0226869032

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A Short History of the Future by W. Warren Wagar Pdf

Narrated by a far-future historian, Peter Jensen leaves an account of the world from the 1990s to the opening of the 23rd century as a gift to his granddaughter. A combination of fiction and scholarship, this third edition of Wagar's speculative history of the future alternates between descriptions of world events and intimate glimpses of this historian's family into the first centuries of the new millennium.

Author : Murray Bookchin
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015046860311

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Re-enchanting Humanity by Murray Bookchin Pdf

This work represents Murray Bookchin's riposte to the antihumanism, mysticism and antirationalism which are influencing many people's attitudes to environmental problems. Bookchin offers a critique of, among others, social Darwinists, deep ecologists, new agers, technophobes, Foucault, Derrida and Baudrillard.

Author : Lalrinawmi Ralte,Stella Faria
Publisher : ISPCK
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Feminism
ISBN : 8172147988

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Waging Peace, Building a World in which Life Matters by Lalrinawmi Ralte,Stella Faria Pdf

Festschrift in honour of Gabriele Dietrich of Tamil Nadu Theological Seminary, social activist and feminist; contributed articles on diverse aspects predominantly on social status of women and feminism in India.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Resistance Books
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0909196990

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Environment, Capitalism & Socialism by Anonim Pdf

"Our planet is gripped by twin crises of the most fundamental nature--social (mass poverty, austerity, militarism, etc) and environmental. In this document, the Democratic Socialist Party argues that they spring from the same cause--the capitalist system which places the ruthless pursuit of profit by the few before the needs of the vast majority of humanity. Environment, Capitalism and Socialism provides a comprehensive overview of the environmental crisis, the various explanations advanced for it and the responses to it. The document argues strongly for the need to build a mass popular movement to fight corporate planet wreckers and create a socialist order in which human beings will be in harmony with their environment. Included here as an appendix is editor Dick Nichols' thorough critique of so-called green taxation, often put forward as the answer to the crisis." -- Provided by publisher

Author : Gus diZerega
Publisher : Quest Books
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780835630894

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Fault Lines by Gus diZerega Pdf

The United States is suffering its greatest upheaval since the Civil War—politically, economically, socially, religiously. With elegant, sweeping vision, Gus diZerega explores the complex causes leading us to this point, comparing them to giant fault lines that, when they erupt, create enormous disturbance and in time new landscapes. He traces the disruption, first, to America's first countercultural movement originating in the antebellum South and coming into later conflict with the "counterculture" of the 60s that continues now in phenomena like Burning Man; and second, to the crumbling of the moral foundation birthed by the Enlightenment, leading to today’s nihilism. But within the loss resides hope: diZerega sees promise of a new society based more in equality, sacred feminine values, and spiritual immanence. Whether the prevailing oligarchy will abort this transformation is the question of our time. This book enables those of us now living through it to understand the powerful forces shaping our lives and calling on us for a response.

Author : A. L. Herman
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0791439836

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Community, Violence, and Peace by A. L. Herman Pdf

Replaces communal altruism with communal egoism as a way of solving problems of too much violence and too little peace in the twenty-first century.

Author : Tulishree Pradhan,Deepak Kumar Behera,Savarimuthu Gregory,Pooran Chand Joshi,Madhuri Meelee,Maria Stoicheva
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9782384761920

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Proceedings of the World Anthropology Congress 2023 (WAC 2023) by Tulishree Pradhan,Deepak Kumar Behera,Savarimuthu Gregory,Pooran Chand Joshi,Madhuri Meelee,Maria Stoicheva Pdf

This is an open access book.The World Anthropology Congress 2023 intends to explore multiple avenues for global peace and harmony for sustainable development of humankind, particularly of the indigenous, Adivasi and tribal people of the world. It is now well understood that Anthropology as a discipline can lend a powerful voice to non-hegemonic and marginalized cultural perspectives on both Global Peace and Development for ensuring social justice to the tribal and autochthones people. Since Global Peace and Development are multi-layered processes and Anthropology promotes the tradition of multifaceted thinking that ranges from the local to the global and traverses the space in bet ween, the discipline can unveil new dimensions in promoting lasting peace and sustained human development. Further, accumulated scientific evidence proves that many non -violent societies co-existed peacefully as a norm throughout the prehistoric period of the human existence. This indicates that human co-existence and peace were not mere words, but concepts that are integral to the texts of Anthropology. Therefore, deliberations in this Congress will contribute to the processes of Peace and Development of human society at different levels. The proposed World Anthropology Congress 2023 will continue this line of enquiry by playing a crucial role in creating a more contemporary and relevant debate on indigeneity, social justice, and global peace.

Author : Dipak Giri
Publisher : Booksclinic Publishing
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789390192472

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Tribal Perspectives in India by Dipak Giri Pdf

The present anthology which covers eighteen well-explored articles on tribal perspectives in India, assesses critically the tribal art, culture and literature. It also endeavours to bring into surface issues and challenges faced by Indian tribes in reference to their life and hardships, policies adopted by government for their development and problems in their implementation. The book as a whole tries to meet all crucial aspects of Indian tribes. Hopefully the book would serve to larger section of humanity laying bare many hidden facts related to tribal life and culture.

Author : Jordan Benson Kleiman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Appropriate technology
ISBN : STANFORD:36105026551809

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The Appropriate Technology Movement in American Political Culture by Jordan Benson Kleiman Pdf

Author : Matthew Roberson
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780791486825

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Musing the Mosaic by Matthew Roberson Pdf

Examines Sukenick's role in reshaping the American literary tradition.