Environmental Cosmology
Author: Kenneth D. McRitchie
Publisher: Cognizance Books
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 0973624205
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Cosmology, Ecology, and the Energy of God
Author: Donna Bowman
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 215
ISBN-13: 0823238954
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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
Author: Cesare Emiliani
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1992-08-28
Total Pages: 740
ISBN-13: 9780521409490
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Introducing Astronomy
Author: Iain Nicolson
Publisher:
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781780460253
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIain Nicolson explores the origin of the Universe and explains the nature of stars, planets and galaxies, what makes them shine and how they are born, evolve and eventually die.
Environmental Values in Christian Art
Author: Susan Power Bratton
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published:
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 0791479242
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Author: Joseph Grange
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1997-05-01
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 1438404689
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA breakthrough analysis of our environmental crisis, this book offers the insights of thinkers such as Plato, Lao-Tzu, Spinoza, and Whitehead to construct a set of concrete measures to estimate the value of nature. Application of these standards leads to the formation of the discipline of Foundational Ecology as the most effective educational tool for dealing with the next century's environmental crises. The real value of environmental processes comes alive through this systematic philosophy of nature. By offering a cultural critique of our idea of nature, Grange sets the environmental agenda for the next century.
Radix Naturalis
Author: Craig Cramm
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2020-10-30
Total Pages: 436
ISBN-13: 1498291155
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
Environment-Space-Place, Volume 3 / Issue 1 (Spring 2011)
Author: Gary Backhaus
Publisher: Zeta Books
Published: 2011-01-01
Total Pages: 161
ISBN-13: 606826601X
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Author: Kay Milton
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003-12-16
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 1134868103
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLocated in a wide spectrum of current research and practice, from analyses of green ideology and imagery, enviromental law and policy, and local enviromental activism in the West to ethnographic studies of relationships between humans and their enviroments in hunter/gatherer societies, Enviromentalism: The View from Anthropology offers an original perspective on what is probably the best-known issue of the late twentieth century. It will be particularly useful to all social scientists interested in environmentalism and human ecology, to environmental policy-makers and to undergraduates, lecturers and researchers in social anthropology, development studies and sociology.
The Khmer Lands of Vietnam
Author: Philip Taylor
Publisher: NUS Press
Published: 2014-04-01
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9971697785
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
