Ecology and the environment
Subtitle: perspectives from the humanities
By: edited by Donald K. Swearer with Susan Lloyd McGarry.
Contributors: Swearer, Donald K., 1934-; McGarry, Susan Lloyd.
Series: Religions of the world and ecology
Publisher: Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard Divinity School : Distributed by Harvard University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 126
ISBN-13: 9780945454434
Subjects: Environmental sciences; Environmental ethics; Environmental sciences -- Religious aspects; Environment (Aesthetics); Human ecology -- Religious aspects; Humanities
Description: "Examines ethical, religious, and aesthetic dimensions of the environment from several different disciplines related to the humanities including anthropology, literature, philosophy, religious studies, and history, with examples drawn from Confucianism, aboriginal Australia, Moby-Dick, liberal democracies, Ken Wilber, Joanna Macy, and Gary Snyder"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.