S. Bergmann, H. Bedford-Strohm

Nature, Space and the Sacred (eBook, ePUB)

Transdisciplinary Perspectives
Redaktion: Scott, P. M.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Nature, Space and the Sacred offers the first investigative mapping of a new and highly significant agenda: the spatial interactions between religion, nature and culture. In this ground-breaking work, different concepts of religion, theology, space and place and their internal relations are discussed in an impressive range of approaches. Weaving together a diversity of perspectives, this book presents an innovative and truly transdisciplinary environmental science. Its broad range offers a rich exchange of insights, methods and theoretical engagements.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351915670
• Artikelnr.: 49354877

Autorenporträt

S. Bergmann, Professor, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway; P. M. Scott, Lecturer, University of Manchester, UK; M. Jansdotter Samuelsson, Lecturer, Karlstad University, Sweden; H. Bedford-Strohm, Dean of the Faculty for Human Sciences, University of Bamberg, Germany.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface, Sallie McFague; Editorial, S. Bergmann; P.M. Scott, M.
Jansdotter Samuelson and H. Bedford-Strohm; Nature space and the sacred:
introductory remarks, Sigurd Bergmann; Part A Earthing the Sacred:
Transforming the theological climate in response to climate change: Jesus
and the mystery of giving, Anne Primavesi; The whole household of God: the
use of the oikos metaphor in the built and non-built environment, Ernst M.
Conradie; Interpreting heaven and earth: the theological construction of
nature, place and the built environment, Forrest Clingerman. Part B Ethics
in Natural and Built Space: Atmospheric space, climate change and the
communion of saints, Michael S. Northcott; Biodiversity and Christian
ethics: a critical discussion, Anders Melin; Master of the universe or the
humble servant: how the concept of sustainable development is affecting our
understanding of humanity and nature, Björn Vikström; The proper praise
for an architecture of the improper - Joseph Beuys: building with butter,
Annette Homann; Ideal landscapes - landscape design between beauty and
meaning, Carola Wingren; The altar of the dead: a temporal space for memory
and meaning in the contemporary urban landscape, Anna Petersson. Part C
Nature as Entanglement: The wedge and the knot: hammering and stitching the
face of nature, Tim Ingold; Knowing natural spaces: reinterpreting deep
ecology as phenomenology, Kingsley Goodwin; Seeking transformation in a
consumer world: can we achieve a unity of ends and means?, Anna Duhon and
Lisa M. Jokivirta; Restoring or restorying nature?, Glenn Deliège. Part D
Sacred Geographies: Indigenous, embodied knowing: a study in
Crow/Apsaalooke space, nature and the sacred, John A. Grim; Natural sacred
places in landscape: an Estonian model, Marju Kõivupuu; The domestic order
and its feral threat: the intellectual heritage of the neolithic landscape,
Tihamer R. Kover; Sacred sites in Kyrgyzstan: spiritual mission, health and
pilgrimage, Gulnara