Learning Love from a Tiger
：Religious Experiences with Nature
Publication subTitle ：Religious Experiences with Nature
Author： Capper > Daniel
Publisher： University Of California Press
Publication year： 2016
E-ISBN: 9780520964600
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780520290419
Subject： B921 自然神学、宗教神学
Keyword： 宗教
Language： ENG
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Description
Learning Love from a Tiger explores the vibrancy and 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. Readers will delight in tales of house cats who teach monks how to meditate, shamans who shape-shift into jaguars, crickets who perform Catholic mass, rivers that grant salvation, and many others. In addition to being a collection of wonderful stories, this book introduces important concepts and approaches that underlie much recent work in environmental ethics, religion, and ecology. Daniel Capper’s light touch prompts readers to engage their own views of humanity’s place in the natural world and question longstanding assumptions of human superiority.
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