First Edition. Paperback. 9" X 6". xiii, 285pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm, tight, and sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: This book is about the complicated and provocative ways nature, science, and religion intersect in real settings where people attempt to live in harmony with the physical environment. Scholars of philosophy, religious studies, and science and technology have been at the forefront of critiquing the roles of religion and science in human interactions with the natural world. Meanwhile, researchers in the environmental sciences have encountered disciplinary barriers to examining the possibility that religious beliefs influence social-ecological behaviors and processes simply because the issue resists quantitative assessment. The contributors to this book explore how scientific knowledge and spiritual beliefs are engaged to shape natural resource management, environmental activism, and political processes.(Publisher).

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Title

Nature, Science, and Religion: Intersections Shaping Society and the Environment

Publisher

SAR Press, Santa Fe

Publication Date

2012

Language

English

ISBN 10

1934691526

ISBN 13

9781934691526

Binding

Paperback

Edition

First Edition.

Condition

Very good

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This book is about the complicated and provocative ways nature, science, and religion intersect in real settings where people attempt to live in harmony with the physical environment. Scholars of philosophy, religious studies, and science and technology have been at the forefront of critiquing the roles of religion and science in human interactions with the natural world. Meanwhile, researchers in the environmental sciences have encountered disciplinary barriers to examining the possibility that religious beliefs influence social-ecological behaviors and processes simply because the issue resists quantitative assessment. The contributors to this book explore how scientific knowledge and spiritual beliefs are engaged to shape natural resource management, environmental activism, and political processes.

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This fascinating book admirably succeeds in navigating the complexities of a challenging and conflicted landscape. It refreshingly provides new nuanced understandings grounded in a set of penetrating case studies. These engaged and engaging scholars adeptly illuminate some of the ways that people of religious faith are considering environmental matters while others including environmentalists are considering the relevance of religious faiths for environmental concerns. This book is most welcome and valuable as a pioneering multidisciplinary contribution to the new intellectual and pragmatic frontier scrutinizing the dynamic interrelationships among religions and ecologies. --Leslie E. Sponsel, author, Spiritual Ecology: A Quiet Revolution

The strength of the volume lies in the case studies and on-the-ground field examples of the nuanced and complex relationship between practiced religion and local environmental concerns.... [Nature, Science, and Religion] can add to the emerging collection of in-depth anthropological investigations of environmental conflict and how religious beliefs, values, and practices provide support for citizen action. --Stephanie Kaza, University of Vermont

The book is a strong contribution to the literature on the general topic of religion and environment. --Julie Vel�squez Runk, University of Georgia

Stellar job of tying together the complex intersections that shape societies and the environment.... The text is also objective, insightful, and long overdue. --T. Johnson, Choice, December 2012, vol. 50, no. 04

The book is a strong contribution to the literature on the general topic of religion and environment. --Julie Vel�squez Runk, University of Georgia

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Underground Books, ABAA is an online rare and antiquarian bookshop, founded in 2011 as a brick and mortar general bookstore of the same name in downtown Carrollton, Georgia, which is now operated by out former store manager as The Underground Bookshop. Co-owners Josh Niesse and Megan Bell met in 2011, just 10 days or so after Josh opened the doors of Underground Books, literally underground, several steps below street level in a 100-year-old basement in our historic downtown. Megan, an English student at the University of West Georgia, walked in, fell down the rabbit hole, and never left! Reader, we married in May of 2014, under the book arch that now resides at the bookshop. We are both proud alumni of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (CABS), and Megan additionally of Rare Book School at the University of Virginia and of the ABAA Women?s Initiative Mentorship Program. Like many booksellers with open brick-and-mortar stores, we are passionate generalists, but our specialties are in decorative publisher's cloth bindings; fairy tales, folklore, and mythology; popular science and natural history; the occult; and fine press books.

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