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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Pages in unused condition.. Softcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> Religion distinguishes the human species from all others just as human presence on earth distinguishes the ecology of our planet from other places in the known universe. Religious life and the earth’s ecology are inextricably linked organically related. Human belief and practice mark the earth. One can hardly think of a natural system that has not been considerably altered for better or worse by human culture. “Nor is this the work of the industrial centuries” observes Simon Schama. “It is coeval with the entirety of our social existence. And it is this irreversibly modified world. from the polar caps to the equatorial forests that is all the nature we have” (Landscape and Memory [New York: Vintage Books 1996] 7). In Schama’s examination even landscapes that appear to be most free of human culture turn out on closer inspection to be its product. Human beliefs about the nature of ecology are the distinctive contribution of our species to the ecology itself. Religious beliefs-especially those concerning the nature of powers that create and animate become an effective part of ecological systems. They attract the power of will and channel the forces of labor toward purposive transformations. Religious rituals model relations with material life and transmit habits of practice and attitudes of mind. (SP)