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Dark Green Religion: Nature Spirituality and the Planetary Future

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Description for Dark Green Religion: Nature Spirituality and the Planetary Future Paperback. Examines the evolution of 'green religions' in North America and beyond: spiritual practices that hold nature as sacred and have in many cases replaced traditional religions. This book provides a global tour of the green religious phenomenon, enabling readers to evaluate its worldwide emergence and to assess its role in a religious revolution. Num Pages: 360 pages, 1 b/w photograph, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRAC; HRQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 504. Nature Spirituality and the Planetary Future. 360 pages, illustrations. Examines the evolution of 'green religions' in North America and beyond: spiritual practices that hold nature as sacred and have in many cases replaced traditional religions. This book provides a global tour of the green religious phenomenon, enabling readers to evaluate its worldwide emergence and to assess its role in a religious revolution. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRAC; HRQ. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 22. Weight: 492.
In this innovative and deeply felt work, Bron Taylor examines the evolution of 'green religions' in North America and beyond: spiritual practices that hold nature as sacred and have in many cases replaced traditional religions. Tracing a wide range of groups-radical environmental activists, lifestyle-focused bioregionalists, surfers, new-agers involved in 'ecopsychology', and groups that hold scientific narratives as sacred - Taylor addresses a central theoretical question: How can environmentally oriented, spiritually motivated individuals and movements be understood as religious when many of them reject religious and supernatural worldviews? The 'dark' of the title further expands this idea by emphasizing the depth ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
360
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Weight
513g
Number of Pages
360
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520261006
SKU
V9780520261006
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99-12

About Bron Taylor
Bron Taylor is Professor of Religion and Nature at the University of Florida. He is Editor-in-Chief of the multi-volume Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature and the Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, and Editor of Ecological Resistance Movements: The Global Emergence of Radical and Popular Environmentalism.

Reviews for Dark Green Religion: Nature Spirituality and the Planetary Future
"This ambitious work seeks to set forth a new religious tradition characterized by its central concern for the fate of the planet." Nova Religio: The Journal Of Alternative & Emergent Religions "Dark Green Religion is intelligent, well-written, and very much worth reading." Worldviews "Taylor aims to illustrate the existence of an ideological current in contemporary North American society that has ... Read more

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