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Sacred Landscapes and Cultural Politics-Planting a Tree »
Authors: Philip P. Arnold (Editor), Ann Grodzins Gold, Ann Grodzins Gold
ISBN-13: 9780754615699, ISBN-10: 0754615693
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Limited
Date Published: September 2001
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: Philip P. Arnold
Book Synopsis
Eight essays document the April 1996 conference, Religion/Environment/Action: Conceptions and Connections, one of many events marking the centennial of Syracuse (New York) University's Department of Religion. They cover contested cultural politics, once and future sacred landscapes, and planting a tree. Among them are excerpts and photographs of the tree planting ceremony conducted by Chief Jake Swamp, founder of the Tree of Peace Society. There is no index.
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Table of Contents
| List of Contributors | ||
| Acknowledgements | ||
| Dedication | ||
| Introduction | ||
| 1 | Isaac and the Elk: Nature's Unnatural Acts | 3 |
| 2 | Alternative Geographies: From Cosmography to Geography | 27 |
| 3 | Of Tee Shirts and Tree Seedlings: The Hidden Problems with Religion and the Environment Dialogues | 35 |
| 4 | Sacred Landscapes of Kirinyaga: Indigenous and Early Islamic and Christian Influences | 55 |
| 5 | No Nature Apart: Adivasi Cosmovision and Ecological Discourses in Jharkhand, India | 83 |
| 6 | Story, Ritual, and Environment in Rajasthan | 115 |
| 7 | We Plant a Tree of Peace: The Syracuse University Tree-Planting Ceremony | 143 |
| 8 | Sacred Landscapes of New York State and the Problem of Religion in America | 167 |
| Bibliography | 189 |
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