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Covering such topics as evolution, emotions, sexuality, and death, this volume reconciles the modern scientific understanding of reality with our spiritual yearnings for reverence and continuity.

Biology --- Naturalism --- Nature --- Philosophy of nature --- Religion and science --- Vitalism --- Philosophy. --- Religious aspects. --- Religious interpretations

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"In Living Landscapes , Christopher Key Chapple looks at the world of ritual as enacted in three faiths of India. He begins with an exploration of the relationship between the body and the world as found in the cosmological cartography of Sāṃkhya philosophy, which highlights the interplay between consciousness ( puruṣa ) and activity ( prakṛti ), a process that gives rise to earth, water, fire, air, and space. He then turns to the progressive explication of these five great elements in Buddhism, Jainism, Advaita, Tantra, and Haṭha Yoga, and includes translations from the Vedas and the Purāṇas of Hinduism, the Buddhist and Jain Sūtras, and select animal fables from early Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism. Chapple also describes his own pilgrimages to the Great Stupa at Shambhala Mountain Center in Colorado, the five elemental temples ( pañcamahābhūta mandir ) in south India, and the Jaina cosmology complex in Hastinapur. An appendix with practical instructions that integrate Yoga postures with meditative reflections on the five elements is included"--

Yoga. --- Nature --- Religious aspects. --- India --- Religion. --- Nature - Religious aspects. --- India - Religion. --- Philosophy of nature --- Religion and science --- Yoga --- Yoga exercises --- Exercise --- Philosophy, Indic --- Religious interpretations --- Hinduism

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Public lands --- Nature --- Lands, Public --- Land use --- Public domain --- Crown lands --- Natural resources, Communal --- Philosophy of nature --- Religion and science --- Management. --- Religious aspects. --- Law and legislation --- Religious interpretations --- Nature - Religious aspects. --- Public lands - Management.

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The concern of this work is with developing an alternative to standard categories in theology and philosophy, especially in terms of how they deal with nature. Avoiding the polemics of much contemporary reflection on nature, it shows how we are connected to nature through the unconscious and its unique way of reading and processing signs. Spinoza's key distinction between natura naturans and natura naturata serves as the governing framework for the treatise. Suggestions are made for a post-Christian way of understanding religion. Robert S. Corrington's work represents the first sustained attempt to bring together the fields of semiotics, depth-psychology, pragmaticism, and a post-Monotheistic theology of nature. Its focus is on how signification functions in human and non-human orders of infinite nature. Our connection with the infinite is described in detail, especially as it relates to the use of sign systems.

Philosophy of nature. --- Semiotics. --- Nature --- Semiotics --- Philosophical theology. --- Theology, Philosophical --- Philosophy and religion --- Theology, Doctrinal --- Philosophy of nature --- Religion and science --- Semeiotics --- Semiology (Linguistics) --- Semantics --- Signs and symbols --- Structuralism (Literary analysis) --- Nature, Philosophy of --- Natural theology --- Religious aspects. --- Religious interpretations --- Philosophy --- Philosophical theology --- Religious aspects --- Arts and Humanities --- Religion

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"Sacred Seeds examines New World plants and their associated Native myths as they moved across the Atlantic and into English literature"-- "More than five hundred years after the fact, present-day writers still use hyperbolic adjectives to describe the "discovery" of the Americas. Columbus's crossing of the Atlantic--and the age of exploration that ensued--dramatically and forever changed the early modern world. The societies, economies, cultures, arts, and burgeoning sciences of Europe were quickly transformed by the ongoing encounter with the New World. The meeting of the New and the Old Worlds, however, was more than a meeting of disparate civilizations. It was also a confluence of exciting and often surprising associations that continually created new interfaces between materials and knowledge. The Western and Eastern Hemispheres, brought together by sailing ships for the first time on a large scale, helped create the global landscape we take for granted today. Central to this formative moment in global history were New World plants. The agriculture of indigenous peoples mythically and materially shaped English society and, subsequently, its literature in new and startling ways. Sacred Seeds examines New World plants--tobacco, amaranth, guaiacum, and the prickly pear cactus--and their associated Native myths as they moved across the Atlantic and into English literature. Edward McLean Test reinstates the contributions of indigenous peoples to European society, charting an alternative cultural history that explores the associations and assemblages of transatlantic multiplicity rather than Eurocentric homogeny"--

LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance. --- Nature --- Indigenous peoples --- America in literature. --- Plants in literature. --- Gardens in literature. --- English literature --- Philosophy of nature --- Religion and science --- Aboriginal peoples --- Aborigines --- Adivasis --- Indigenous populations --- Native peoples --- Native races --- Ethnology --- Religious aspects. --- Influence. --- History and criticism. --- Religious interpretations --- Europe --- United States --- Civilization --- American influences.