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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 543–563.
Published: 01 November 2022
...S. Jonathon O’Donnell Abstract This article uses a queer ecocritical methodology to analyze constructions of the environment and subjectivity in American spiritual warfare demonologies (discourses about the reality and activity of demons) published in 2008–18. There has been a surge in critical...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (1): 187–207.
Published: 01 March 2023
... of the Kariri-Xocó Indigenous community in present-day Northeast Brazil. It concludes that, by reclaiming their language in a way that is both agentive and coconstructed, the Kariri-Xocó bring together language, culture, and spirituality as tools for resistance. [email protected]...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 100–117.
Published: 01 March 2024
... understanding of the environment. This leads to new understandings of diaspora and spiritual allegiances to the homeland that are especially pertinent for the Vietnamese community abroad. 5. Werner and Bélanger, Gender, Household, State . See also works by Nguyễn Khắc Phê, such as the novel Thập giá...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (2): 291–297.
Published: 01 November 2016
..., to “care for our common home” but also that this must involve a spiritual conversion. While maintaining that characteristic of his papacy of being open to dialogue with people of other faiths and of none—he ends the encyclical with two prayers, a nondenominational “Prayer for our earth” followed...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (2): 263–269.
Published: 01 November 2016
... science and technology “to transform reality” and the moral and spiritual failure to use these without harm to the planet (§5). Francis then considers a number of causes specific to this encyclical. These include the creation, through industrial technologies and consumerism, of “a throwaway culture...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (2): 285–290.
Published: 01 November 2016
... variegated modes of life’s organization—down to the fleeting, intimate, ethereal, and least visible registers of the spiritual. “The vital diversity of meanings has always been present in human history,” says Gebara. But we also know that human groups have trouble recognizing the fragility, or partiality...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 105–123.
Published: 01 July 2023
...” that lies at the heart of Christian asceticism. In the 1980s, Michel Foucault argued that Christian asceticism’s practice of dying-to-self transpired as a preoccupation with shame and a desire to escape the world for a purely spiritual realm. 7 In Foucault’s work, dying-to-self thus figures...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (2): 245–250.
Published: 01 November 2016
... divinization of humanity, who must be returned to their proper place in the spiritual order as the uniquely valuable, capable, and thus responsible stewards of God’s creation (§90); and various forms of instrumentalism, relativism, consumerism, and so on (but, as expected, not overpopulation [§50]). Against...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 331–350.
Published: 01 July 2024
... propelled him to return to Ximaojia, where he topologized the local cosmology in the ethnographic film Between Humans and Gods (2004). Following this, the artist further carried his research on indigenous spiritual practices to the Miao, Dong, and Tujia ethnic groups in Guizhou Province, which yielded...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (1): 44–63.
Published: 01 March 2023
... .” Technology and Culture 49 , no. 4 ( 2008 ): 833 – 59 . Gergan Mabel Denzin . “ Animating the Sacred, Sentient, and Spiritual in Post-humanist and Material Geographies .” Geography Compass 9 , no. 5 ( 2015 ): 262 – 75 . Gibson Katherine , Rose Deborah Bird , and Fincher...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (2): 467–476.
Published: 01 November 2019
..., the arts and the spiritual world, make a call to rethink from its basis the way in which we inhabit “the human” and its place in the history of the Earth. Our call emerges in response to the Anthropocene, a notion proposed recently by the Subcommittee on Stratigraphy of the International Quaternary Union...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 72–100.
Published: 01 May 2019
... body and spirit, faith and action, belief and practice in a community that sees the Earth as a domain influenced by divine powers. God’s influence is determined by human actions, particularly sin, which physically spoils the purity of creation. As religious scholar Robert Orsi has argued, spiritual...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (2): 277–284.
Published: 01 November 2016
..., their interior life and spirituality. If we are truly concerned to develop an ecology capable of remedying the damage we have done, no branch of the sciences and no form of wisdom can be left out, and that includes religion and the language particular to it. 7 This is an ecumenical, almost agnostic...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (2): 493–497.
Published: 01 November 2019
... serially shifted in science and governance enables one to avoid the error of setting “present science” in opposition to “ancestral spirituality.” Instead, understanding how moderns have built a global society that takes without reciprocating lays a foundation for recovering reciprocity with the cycles...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 475–493.
Published: 01 July 2022
... break from oftentimes dismal moods at home, where he takes care of his wife who suffers from dementia. He said, “It’s almost magical to come through the forest, to walk over the dunes and see the magnificent beach.” It was, he told me, a “free space,” invigorating, and prompting “spiritual solace...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 4 (1): 41–67.
Published: 01 May 2014
... and spiritual—profiles a sense of what “shadow place” 15 composition might sound like. To my knowledge the only symphonic antecedent for this emerging musical paradigm was Symphony on a City by John Antill (1959; commissioned by the port city of Newcastle, NSW in 1958). 16 Australia was colonised...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 4 (1): 149–170.
Published: 01 May 2014
..., by virtue of intertwined history, care and perhaps even love. We also saw how the practical responses of these beekeepers are bound up with spiritual responses, which include encountering and worshipping the alterity of the bee. Would their practices be translatable to commercial beekeeping...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 110–128.
Published: 01 March 2022
... of the original American gummi boom, People magazine described them as a “cross between three-week-old Jell-O and flavored rubber bands.” 76 In his excellent account of environmental conflicts in Yellowstone National Park, Justin Farrell highlights the spiritual and moral order behind our relationship...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 807–825.
Published: 01 November 2024
... Buddhist teachings and empowerments that emphasized and enabled the acceptance of adversity, compassion, and spiritual practice including mantras and visualizations. 5 Nevertheless, an unprecedented number of English-language media interviews, webinars, blog posts, and articles outlining Tibetan...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (2): 270–276.
Published: 01 November 2016
... of a small minority of the population deprives present and future generations of what they need to survive (§95). The present ecological crisis is therefore one small sign of the ethical, cultural, and spiritual crisis of modernity as a whole (§119). What has been lost in this self-assertion against...
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