Nature

Nature

Author: Joseph Grange

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 1997-01-01

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 9780791433478

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Provides a set of normative measure sto assess the value of nature and proposes the new discipline of foundational ecology as a response to environmental crisis.


Cosmology, Ecology, and the Energy of God

Cosmology, Ecology, and the Energy of God

Author: Donna Bowman

Publisher: Fordham Univ Press

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 215

ISBN-13: 0823238954

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This book brings together process and postmodern theologians to reflect on the crucial topic of energy, asking: What are some of the connections between energy and theology? How do ideas about humanity and divinity interrelate with how we live our lives? Its contributors address energy in at least three distinct ways. First, in terms of physics, the discovery of dark energy in 1998 uncovered a mysterious force that seems to be driving the inflation of the universe. Here cosmology converges with theological reflection about the nature and origin of the universe. Second, the social and ecological contexts of energy use and the current energy crisis have theological implications insofar as they are caught up with ultimate human meanings and values. Finally, in more traditional theological terms of divine spiritual energy, we can ask how human conceptions of energy relate to divine energy in terms of creative power.


Planet Earth

Planet Earth

Author: Cesare Emiliani

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1992-08-28

Total Pages: 740

ISBN-13: 9780521409490

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This book explains why we have such a vast array of environments across the cosmos and on our own planet, and also a stunning diversity of plant and animal life on earth.


Cosmic Ecology

Cosmic Ecology

Author: George Seielstad

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2023-12-22

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 0520338332

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1983. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived


The Khmer Lands of Vietnam

The Khmer Lands of Vietnam

Author: Philip Taylor

Publisher: NUS Press

Published: 2014-04-01

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 9971697785

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The indigenous people of Southern Vietnam, known as the Khmer Krom, occupy territory over which Vietnam and Cambodia have competing claims. Regarded with ambivalence and suspicion by nationalists in both countries, these in-between people have their own claims on the place where they live and a unique perspective on history and sovereignty in their heavily contested homelands. To cope with wars, environmental re-engineering and nation-building, the Khmer Krom have selectively engaged with the outside world in addition to drawing upon local resources and self-help networks. This groundbreaking book reveals the sophisticated ecological repertoire deployed by the Khmer Krom to deal with a complex river delta, and charts their diverse adaptations to a changing environment. In addition, it provides an ethnographically grounded exposition of Khmer mythic thought that shows how the Khmer Krom position themselves within a landscape imbued with life-sustaining potential, magical sovereign power and cosmological significance. Offering a new environmental history of the Mekong River delta this book is the first to explore Southern Vietnam through the eyes of its indigenous Khmer residents.


Nature

Nature

Author: Joseph Grange

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 1997-05-01

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9780791433485

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Provides a set of normative measure sto assess the value of nature and proposes the new discipline of foundational ecology as a response to environmental crisis.


Radix Naturalis

Radix Naturalis

Author: Craig Cramm

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2020-10-30

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 1498291155

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The substance of this present work is liberation semiology. The world's own principle is love (agape). Our fellow creatures are co-symbols of emancipation from human violence. Creation is not, as influential modern thinkers envision, mere material, mere nature, to commodify and dominate for the freedom of an exclusive constituency of our species. The ecological crisis emerges from a tragic misfit between experiments with secular sovereignty and the continuance of Christian historicity. Either the Christian form of life (of time) is replaced, revealing a new ecological worldview, or we revive Christian sovereignty as a creative fit with the actuality of Christian historicity. This work wagers on the latter: Christian civilization is coextensive with ecological civilization.


The Promise of Nature

The Promise of Nature

Author: John F. Haught

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2004-10-15

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13: 159244945X

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This new, thought-provoking work justifies the role of religion in shaping an ecological ethic, and provides a foundation for discussion among those who are concerned with the state of the natural environment, and who wonder how religion can contribute to the renewal of the Earth.