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Indigenous Traditions and Ecology

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Description for Indigenous Traditions and Ecology Paperback. This text describes modes of resistance and regeneration by which communties maintain a spiritual balance with larger cosmological forces while creatively accommodating current environmental, social, economic and political changes. Editor(s): Grim, John A. Series: Religions of the World and Ecology. Num Pages: 822 pages, maps. BIC Classification: HRLP5; RNA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 181 x 44. Weight in Grams: 1092.

A new perspective on religions and the environment emerges from this collection. The authors, a diverse group of indigenous and non-native scholars and environmental activists, address compelling and urgent questions facing indigenous communities as they struggle with threats to their own sovereignty, increased market and media globalization, and the conservation of endangered bioregions.

Drawing attention to the pressures threatening indigenous peoples and ways of life, this volume describes modes of resistance and regeneration by which communities maintain a spiritual balance with larger cosmological forces while creatively accommodating current environmental, social, economic, and political changes.

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
822
Condition
New
Series
Religions of the World and Ecology
Number of Pages
824
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780945454281
SKU
V9780945454281
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About John A. Grim (Ed.)
John A. Grim is Senior Lecturer, Yale Divinity School. Mary N. MacDonald is Professor of History of Religions, Le Moyne College. Pramod Parajuli teaches anthropology, ecology, and social movements at Syracuse University.

Reviews for Indigenous Traditions and Ecology
Contributors to the present volume offer myriad examples that demonstrate ways in which the ancient cosmologies of indigenous traditions are understood as a totality of belief, imagination, and sustainable practices describing a community's relationship to the land. There are in indigenous lifeways no sheltered and isolating constructs that separate religion from nature. Some essays explore the implications of this intimate ... Read more

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