Sacred custodians of the earth? : women, spirituality and the environment

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Sacred custodians of the earth? : women, spirituality and the environment

edited by Alaine Low and Soraya Tremayne

Berghahn Books, 2001

  • : pbk
  • : hardback

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Women as sacred custodians of the earth? : women, spirituality and the environment

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Papers based on a workshop held in June 1996 at the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research on Women at Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford

Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-250) and index

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内容説明

Literature on women, development and environment is abundant. The relationship between women and ecology has been analyzed by various disciplines, by specialists from the North as well as the South. This book offers a new perspective, specifically to challenge the assumption that women have a special affinity with the Earth and therefore a historic mission for the care of the environment. The book explores spiritual, religious and philosophical beliefs concerning women and ecology, and whether women are truly "sacred custodians" of the Earth. This concept has evolved from ideas developed by eco-feminists. Whether and how different belief systems can be put to use to create an awareness to protect, preserve and improve ecological conditions is discussed. The collection of papers demonstrates the complexity of the issues and the variations and vulnerability of the assumed relationship between women and the environment in different cultural and political contexts. The book challenges policy solutions which are devised to be on a global scale and to create unrealistic global aspirations, and the value of targeting women in a particular attempt to achieve environmentally sustainable development.

目次

Preface Contributors Chapter 1. Introduction Alaine Low and Soraya Tremayne PART I: THE CURRENT DEBATE Chapter 2. Gender, Nature and Trouble with Anti-Dualism Cecile Jackson PART II: THE SACRED Chapter 3. Sacred Landscapes: Religion and the Natural Environment in the Classical World Elena Kingdon Chapter 4. Aboriginal Women and Sacred Landscapes in Northern Australia Veronica Strang Chapter 5. The Separation of the Sexes Among Siberian Reindeer Herders Piers Vitebsky and Sally Wolfe Chapter 6. Priestesses and Environment in Zimbabwe Terence Ranger Chapter 7. Rice, Women, Men, and the Natural Environment among the Kelabit of Sarawak Monica Janowski PART III: THE GREAT RELIGIONS Chapter 8. Ecology and Christian Hierarchy Anne Primavesi Chapter 9. Text and Practice: Women and Nature in Islam Tahera Aftab Chapter 10. Soil as the Goddess Bhudevi in a Tamil Hindu Women's Ritual: The Kolam in India Vijaya Rettakudi Nagarajan Chapter 11. Nature and Gender in Theravada Buddhism Sandra Bell Chapter 12. Nature, Holism and Ecofeminism: A Chinese Worldview Stewart McFarlane PART IV: NEW TRENDS Chapter 13. Children of the Gods: The Quest for Wholeness in Contemporary Paganism Amy Simes Select Bibliography Index

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