Ecology and the environment : perspectives from the humanities / edited by Donald K. Swearer with Susan Lloyd McGarry. - Cambridge, Mass. : Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard Divinity School : Distributed by Harvard University Press, c2009. - ix, 126 p. ; 22 cm. - Religions of the world and ecology .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Examines ethical, religious, and aesthetic dimensions of the environment from several different disciplines related to the humanities including anthropology, literature, philosophy, religious studies, and history, with examples drawn from Confucianism, aboriginal Australia, Moby-Dick, liberal democracies, Ken Wilber, Joanna Macy, and Gary Snyder"--Provided by publisher.

9780945454434 (soft cover : alk. paper) 0945454430 (soft cover : alk. paper)


Environmental sciences.
Environmental ethics.
Environmental sciences--Religious aspects.
Environment (Aesthetics)
Human ecology--Religious aspects.
Humanities.

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