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Levine, Daniel Makonnen.

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Earth Matters: Religion, Nature, and Science in the Ecologies of Contemporary America.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Earth Matters: Religion, Nature, and Science in the Ecologies of Contemporary America./
Author:	Levine, Daniel Makonnen.
Description:	429 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-03(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International75-03A(E).
Subject:	Philosophy of science. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3577531
ISBN:	9781303616334

Earth Matters: Religion, Nature, and Science in the Ecologies of Contemporary America.
Levine, Daniel Makonnen.

Earth Matters: Religion, Nature, and Science in the Ecologies of Contemporary America. - 429 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-03(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Rice University, 2013.

Earth Matters examines the relationships between alternative religion in North America and the natural world through the twin lenses of the history of religions and cultural anthropology. Throughout, nature remains a contested ground, defined simultaneously the limits of cultural activity and by an increasing expansion of claims to knowledge by scientific discourses. Less a historical review than a series of fugues of thought, Earth Matters engages with figures like the French vitalist, Georges Canguilhem, the American environmentalist, John Muir; the founder of Deep Ecology, Arne Naess; the collaborators on Gaia Theory, James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis; the physicist and New Age scientist, Fritjof Capra; and the Wiccan writer and activist, Starhawk.

ISBN: 9781303616334Subjects--Topical Terms:

2079849
Philosophy of science.

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