Sacred custodians of the earth? : women, spirituality, and the environment / edited by Alaine Low and Soraya Tremayne.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Berghahn Books, 2001Description: xi, 260 pages ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1571814671
- 9781571814678
- 1571813160
- 9781571813169
- Women as sacred custodians of the earth?: Women, spirituality and the environment [Cover title]
- 305.42 22
- HQ1233 .S135 2001
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Papers based on a workshop held in June 1996 at the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research on Women at Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-250) and index.
Preface -- Contributors -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Gender, Nature and Trouble with Anti-Dualism -- 3. Sacred Landscapes: Religion and the Natural Environment in the Classical World -- 4. Aboriginal Women and Sacred Landscapes in Northern Australia -- 5. The Separation of the Sexes Among Siberian Reindeer Herders -- 6. Priestesses and Environment in Zimbabwe -- 7. Rice, Women, Men, and the Natural Environment among the Kelabit of Sarawak -- 8. Ecology and Christian Hierarchy -- 9. Text and Practice: Women and Nature in Islam -- 10. Soil as the Goddess Bhudevi in a Tamil Hindu Women's Ritual: The Kolam in India -- 11. Nature and Gender in Theravada Buddhism -- 12. Nature, Holism and Ecofeminism: A Chinese Worldview -- 13. Children of the Gods: The Quest for Wholeness in Contemporary Paganism -- Select Bibliography -- Index.
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