TY  - BOOK
AU  - Low,Alaine M.
AU  - Tremayne,Soraya
TI  - Sacred custodians of the earth?: women, spirituality, and the environment 
SN  - 1571814671
AV  - HQ1233 .S135 2001
U1  - 305.42 22
PY  - 2001///
CY  - New York
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Ecofeminism
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Congresses
KW  - Human ecology
KW  - Women and religion
N1  - 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
ER  -