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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 8–29.
Published: 01 November 2023
.... In this article, we assess some of these claims by examining an Asian ritual tradition that is arguably animistic, while also containing elements of Buddhism, Daoism, and ancestor worship: the worship of whales, widespread along the coast of South and Central Vietnam. Fishing communities here believe that whales...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 4 (1): 149–170.
Published: 01 May 2014
... Butler's work on vulnerability as a shared condition of living, we examine the philosophies and practices of alternative apiculture along two axes: the gifts of honey and poison; longing, connection and bee-worship. The first emphasizes how poison and honey draw bee and beekeeper together in uneven gift...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 529.
Published: 01 November 2024
... published in the journal’s pages in the preceding year, is “When Gods Drown in Plastic: Vietnamese Whale Worship, Environmental Crises, and the Problem of Animism,” by Aike P. Rots and Nhung Lu Rots, which appeared in the November 2023 issue. This article offers an insightful reexamination of the claim...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (2): 285–290.
Published: 01 November 2016
..., material objects associated with worship patterns, and cosmological frameworks that illuminated forms of connection between a people and a given territorial location. Gebara also notes that religious biodiversity is not merely marked in the variegated differentiations and distinctions between religious...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (2): 460–463.
Published: 01 November 2017
..., and disease. So much birthing and feeding, growing and dying—so we wonder, how can we ever love “nature” amid all of this? And yet, the fecundity of Earth calls not for a worshipping of nature, but a reverence toward the fecund mess of it all, toward life’s always uncertain proliferation and becoming...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (2): 251–255.
Published: 01 November 2016
... by, flowers, birds, wind, and the waters of rivers?” Hundreds of books written warning of the dangers of materialism, of immanence, of modernism, of technology, of science, or of the worship of matter; total indifference when it comes to corporate planetary destruction; enthusiastic destruction of all...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 100–117.
Published: 01 March 2024
... is grounded in their relationship with the environment through agriculture, through ancestral worship, and through their adaptations to climate change. In this reading of Vietnamese fiction, the relationship between the human and natural world takes into consideration a holistic understanding of existence, so...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (2): 477–484.
Published: 01 November 2019
... and perhaps most specifically by the Reconquista , in early colonial Spanish America Christian clerics busied themselves “extirpating idolatries” against “devil induced worship.” Extirpation required dividing the participating entities into God-made nature (mountains, rivers, forests, oceans) and humans...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 182–201.
Published: 01 March 2022
... tradition that, in the nineteenth century in the United States, departed from the wilderness as a place of despair to establish it as a sacred place of worship of God. 28 No evidence is provided in his paper that Maroons themselves referred to the places they dwell in as “wilderness.” However, one...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 4 (1): 113–123.
Published: 01 May 2014
... is “about doing togetherness in a way that is neither detached nor engaged.” 4 Green and Ginn ponder the gifts of honey and its poisonous counterpoint, the sting, by following a beekeeping community that is influenced by Rudolf Steiner's philosophy and is held together by bee-worship. Brice analyses how...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 371–384.
Published: 01 July 2024
..., the way they smell, and what arouses their desire. Human beings may not be able to read this message, but the fact that it is a message persists, and so throughout history, human beings have used flowers to express inarticulate sentiments of worship, grief, and joy. The opaque semantic of flowers might...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 602–617.
Published: 01 November 2022
... in[to]” this pink flower is a phytopoetic description of an intimate erotic encounter that evokes cunnilingus. Delight, or the pleasure of la petit mort , the sensation after orgasm that is likened to death, will resurrect the worshiper to a new life, after experiencing annihilation and rebirth (as if the priest’s...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 1–19.
Published: 01 May 2018
... and the mother’s milk of women kept like dairy cattle. Aided by the warlord rulers of the nearby Gas Town and Bullet Town, Joe pursues with his army of War Boys—irradiated young men who worship him as a deity. Caught in the conflict that ensues is Max Rockatansky, the road warrior protagonist of Miller’s earlier...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 310–329.
Published: 01 May 2018
... of the self is an act of worship and awe. But it is also a form of lament. Confessions are elegiac, since a complete accounting for the “truth” of what we have done—for that for which we ask pardon—would always be frustrated, incomplete, and errant. There is always doubt hovering over one’s own accounting...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 543–563.
Published: 01 November 2022
.... They are invisible to the natural eye, but they are just as real as natural creatures. The idols that men worship are made in the image of men, four-footed beasts, birds, and creeping things. Behind these idols are demons. 61 As the link to idolatry illustrates, the demonic animal is seen as upsetting...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 331–350.
Published: 01 July 2024
.... Nuo: a pantheistic system that combines performances, divination, and diverse local drama genres. Its functions include deity worships, curing diseases, warding off evil spirits, ceremonies, and funerals. It is still practiced by Han and ethnic minority groups in southern China. 54. Feuchtwang...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 643–660.
Published: 01 November 2024
... trying to tame the Sun, trying to force it to replicate the tempo of fossil-fueled systems, we instead allow ourselves to be tamed by it? 20 The vast, burning orb could once again be something to be feared, worshipped, and perhaps even supplicated before. A resacralization of the Sun, at least...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 3 (1): 129–147.
Published: 01 May 2013
... as a characteristic of the Enlightenment worldview: “The new ideology has as its objects the world as such. It makes use of the worship of facts by no more than elevating a disagreeable existence into the world of facts in representing it meticulously. This transference makes existence itself a substitute for meaning...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 2 (1): 169–186.
Published: 01 May 2013
... the rigorous epistemological methods and means of science. Accordingly, such fields of study were isolated and divided into their microscopic elemental parts and painstakingly argued to putatively certain conclusions—about which, however, little agreement is ever reached. This virtual worship of scientific...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (2): 397–420.
Published: 01 November 2018
... of ecology in and of Angola, that which is made visible from above, and thus rendered representable, is reified and then worshipped. In this process, reliable forest knowledge and forest management are made possible through , not just with, representations being produced, handled, and re-presented away from...