Nature, space, and the sacred
Subtitle: transdisciplinary perspectives
By: S. Bergmann ... [et al.].
Contributors: Bergmann, Sigurd, 1956-
Publisher: Ashgate Pub. Ltd.; Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780754666868
Subjects: Nature -- Religious aspects -- Congresses; Religion and geography -- Congresses; Sacred space -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Papers presented from the European Forum for the Study of Religion and the Environment's inaugural conference held at the University of Bamberg, 24-26 May 2007.
Table of contents: title: Preface / S. Bergmann, P. M. Scott, M. Jansdotter Samuelsson, and H. Bedford-Strohm; title: Nature, space and the sacred / Sigurd Bergmann; title: Earthing the sacred; title: Transforming the theological climate in response to climate change : Jesus and the mystery of giving / Anna Primavesi; title: The whole household of God : the use of the oikos metaphor in the built and non-built environment / Ernst M. Conradie; title: Interpreting heaven and earth : the theological construction of nature, place, and the built environment / Forrest Clingerman; title: Ethics in natural and built space; title: Atmospheric space, climate change, and the communion of saints / Michael Northcott; title: Biodiversity and Christian ethics : a critical discussion / Anders Melin; title: The master of the universe or the humble servant / Björn Vikström; title: The proper praise for an architecture of the improper Joseph Beuys : building with butter / Annette Homann; title: Ideal landscapes : landscape design between beauty and meaning / Carola Wingren; title: Altars of the dead / anna Petersson; title: Nature as entanglement; title: The wedge and the knot : hammering and stitching the face of nature / Tim Ingold; title: Knowing natural spaces : reinterpreting deep ecology as phenomenology / Kingsley Goodwin; title: Seeking transformation in a consumer world : can we achieve a unity of ends and means? / Anna Duhon and Lisa Jokivirta; title: Restoring or restorying nature? / Glenn Deliège; title: Sacred geographies; title: Indigenous, embodied knowing : a study in crow/apsaalooke space, nature and the sacred / John Grim; title: Natural sacred places in landscape : an Eestonian model / Marju Torp Kõivupuu; title: Domestic order and its feral threat: the intellectual heritage of the neolithic landscape / T.R. Kover; title: Sacred sites in kyrgyzstan: spiritual mission, health and pilgrimage / Gulnara Aitpaeva; title: Keeping the sacred secret : voices at sacred sites in kyrgyzstan / Zemfira Inogamova; title: E. turning to the east; title: Touching the depths of things : cultivating nature in the thought of wang yangming/ mary evelyn tucker; title: Stone and sacred space in china and japan: implications for our treatment of the earth / Graham Parkes; title: The way forward : shinto and a 21st century japanese ecological attitude / Daniel M.P. Shaw.