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Daniel Capper, Capper Daniel
Learning Love From a Tiger - Religious Experiences With Nature
English · Hardback
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Description
“Unique, wide ranging, and beautifully written, this powerful plea for more mutually constructive relationships offers an appreciation of the natural world and our neighbors in the nonhuman universe. Learning Love from a Tiger respects cultural differences and religious sensibilities even as it challenges human-on-human oppression.”
Paul Waldau, Professor of Anthrozoology, Canisius College
“Capper’s complex and timely work addresses the multifaceted ways that religions and nature shape each other. He points out that the results are often fraught with ambivalence, an important conclusion that leaves the reader without simple answers. This book both introduces various religious traditions and delves into the complicated environmental issues that intersect, in sometimes unanticipated ways, with religion.”
Laura Hobgood, Professor of Environmental Studies and Religion, Southwestern University
List of contents
List of Illustrations
Introduction: Into Muir’s Forest
1. All the Christian Birds Chanted
2. The Donkey Who Communed with Allah
3. Hindu Trees Tremble with Ecstasy
4. Sharing Mayan Natural Souls
5. Friendly Yetis
6. Enlightened Buddhist Stones
Epilogue: The Mountain Peaks Leaped and Danced
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Daniel Capper is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religion at the University of Southern Mississippi and the author of Guru Devotion and the American Buddhist Experience.
Summary
Explores the variety of humans' sacred encounters with the natural world, gathering a range of stories culled from Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Mayan, Himalayan, Buddhist, and Chinese shamanic traditions. This book includes tales of house cats who teach monks how to meditate, shamans who shape-shift into jaguars, and rivers that grant salvation.
Product details
| Authors | Daniel Capper, Capper Daniel |
| Publisher | University Of California Press |
| Languages | English |
| Product format | Hardback |
| Released | 19.04.2016 |
| EAN | 9780520290419 |
| ISBN | 978-0-520-29041-9 |
| No. of pages | 320 |
| Subjects |
Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology
> Biology
> Ecology
Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Ecology, comparative religion, RELIGION / Comparative Religion, Applied ecology, Animals & society, Animals and society |
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