Sacred Earth

• Author : Arthur Versluis
• Publisher : Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
• Release : 01 June 1992

Placing Native American spirituality in the context of the world's great religions, Sacred Earth contrasts contemporary society's arrogant belief in its own power with native traditions of reverence for the earth. This eye-opening journey through the terrain of Native American spirituality is an urgent call to rediscover and become firmly grounded on the sacred earth again.

• Author : Chris Park
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 01 November 2002

This book, the first in the field for two decades, looks at the relationships between geography and religion. It represents a synthesis of research by geographers of many countries, mainly since the 1960s. No previous book has tackled this emerging field from such a broad, interdisciplinary perspective, and never before have such a variety of detailed case studies been pulled together in so comparative or illuminating a way. Examples and case studies have been drawn from all the major world

• Author : Judie Bopp
• Publisher : Lotus Press
• Release : 19 October 1989

Bestselling Native American title exploring Native American spiritual teachings.

• Author : Pippa Norris,Ronald Inglehart
• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• Release : 17 October 2011

This book develops a theory of existential security. It demonstrates that the publics of virtually all advanced industrial societies have been moving toward more secular orientations during the past half century, but also that the world as a whole now has more people with traditional religious views than ever before. This second edition expands the theory and provides new and updated evidence from a broad perspective and in a wide range of countries. This confirms that religiosity persists most strongly

• Author : Peter Gardella
• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• Release : 01 January 2014

Peter Gardella explores the monuments, texts, and images that embody the spirit of the United States.

• Author : Thomas Berry,Thomas Mary Berry
• Publisher : Columbia University Press
• Release : 19 October 2021

A leading scholar, cultural historian, and Catholic priest who spent more than fifty years writing about our engagement with the Earth, Thomas Berry possessed prophetic insight into the rampant destruction of ecosystems and the extinction of species. In this book he makes a persuasive case for an interreligious dialogue that can better confront the environmental problems of the twenty-first century. These erudite and keenly sympathetic essays represent Berry's best work, covering such issues as human beings' modern alienation from nature

• Author : Marilyn Chambliss,Sushila Mertens,Marilyn Rosenbrock Nyborg
• Publisher : iUniverse
• Release : 16 November 2017

In an era in which we are all called to take responsibility for the planet, the restructuring of failing systems, and the levels of racism and sexism, many are feeling helpless. This wee guide is easy to read and even easier to follow. It is intended to first support you to do their personal work. Deal with their anger, frustration, and hate before entering the equally angry, frustrating, and hate-filled world of politics and activism. You are encouraged to come

• Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Indian Affairs (1993- )
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 19 October 2021

• Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Indian Affairs
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 19 October 2021

• Author : Lawrence Sullivan
• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
• Release : 28 March 2003

This volume contains insightful essays on significant spiritual moments in eight different Native American cultures: Absaroke/Crow, Creek/Muskogee, Lakota, Mescalero Apache Navajo, Tlingit, Yup'ik, and Yurok.

• Author : Jordan D. Paper
• Publisher : Caxton Press
• Release : 19 October 1988

Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for the University of Idaho Press In this brilliant exploration of the history, mythology, ritual and symbolism of the sacred pipe, author Jordan Paper breaks new ground in assessing the importance of the pipe in Native American religion. Offering Smoke provides a dazzling introduction to an aspect of Native American culture heretofore never explored in such depth or with such careful regard for the religious and cultural sensitivities so vital for genuine understanding.

• Author : Brad Lyons,Bruce Barkhauer
• Publisher : Chalice Press
• Release : 28 April 2020

From the authors of America’s Holy Ground: 61 Faithful Reflections on Our National Parks. The National Park Service oversees more than the 61 national parks; monuments and historic sites mark where important events in America’s story occurred, protect unique natural landmarks, and remember those who changed history. Brad Lyons and Bruce Barkhauer help you consider how your faith and values are reflected in those treasured places. America’s Holy Sites: 50 Faithful Reflections on Our National Monuments and Historic Landmarks visits

• Author : Michael Washburn
• Publisher : SUNY Press
• Release : 01 February 2012

Presents an account of human development from a depth-psychological, transpersonal perspective.

• Author : Khyati Y. Joshi
• Publisher : Rutgers University Press
• Release : 23 May 2006

In this compelling look at second-generation Indian Americans, Khyati Y. Joshi draws on case studies and interviews with forty-one second-generation Indian Americans, analyzing their experiences involving religion, race, and ethnicity from elementary school to adulthood. As she maps the crossroads they encounter as they navigate between their homes and the wider American milieu, Joshi shows how their identities have developed differently from their parents’ and their non-Indian peers’ and how religion often exerted a dramatic effect. The experiences of Joshi’

• Author : Philip Sheldrake
• Publisher : JHU Press
• Release : 31 January 2001

In Spaces for the Sacred, Philip Sheldrake brilliantly reveals the connection between our rootedness in the places we inhabit and the construction of our personal and religious identities. Based on the prestigious Hulsean Lectures he delivered at the University of Cambridge, Sheldrake's book examines the sacred narratives which derive from both overtly religious sites such as cathedrals, and secular ones, like the Millennium Dome, and it suggests how Christian theological and spiritual traditions may contribute creatively to current debates about