Women as Sacred Custodians of the Earth? : : Women, Spirituality and the Environment / / ed. by Alaine Low, Soraya Tremayne.

• MitwirkendeR: Aftab, Tahera,; Bell, Sandra,; Jackson, Cecile,; Janowski, Monica,; Kingdon, Elena,; Low, Alaine,; McFarlane, Stewart,; Primavesi, Anne,; Ranger, Terence,; Simes, Amy,; Strang, Veronica,; Tremayne, Soraya,; Vitebsky, Piers,; Wolfe, Sally,
• HerausgeberIn: Low, Alaine,; Tremayne, Soraya,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2001]; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2001
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (208 p.)

Literature on women, development and environment is abundant. The relationship between women and ecology has been analyzed by various disciplines, by specialists from the North as well as the South. This book offers a new perspective, specifically to challenge the assumption that women have a specia...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• Contributors
• 1. Introduction
• Part I. The Current Debate
• 2. Gender, Nature and Trouble with Anti-Dualism
• Part II. The Sacred
• 3. Sacred Landscapes: Religion and the Natural Environment in the Classical World
• 4. Aboriginal Women and Sacred Landscapes in Northern Australia
• 5. The Separation of the Sexes Among Siberian Reindeer Herders
• 6. Priestesses and Environment in Zimbabwe
• 7. Rice, Women, Men, and the Natural Environment among the Kelabit of Sarawak
• Part III. The Great Religions
• 8. Ecology and Christian Hierarchy
• 9. Text and Practice: Women and Nature in Islam
• 10. Soil as the Goddess Bhudevi in a Tamil Hindu Women’s Ritual: The Kolam in India
• 11. Nature and Gender in Theravada Buddhism
• 12. Nature, Holism and Ecofeminism: A Chinese Worldview
• Part IV. New Trends
• 13. Children of the Gods: The Quest for Wholeness in Contemporary Paganism
• Select Bibliography
• Index