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Nasr Seyyed Hossein |
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Religion and the Order of Nature : The 1994 Cadbury Lectures / / Seyyed Hossein Nasr |
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New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 1996 |
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1-280-45237-4 |
0-19-535616-0 |
1-4237-5929-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (319 pages) |
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Soggetti |
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Nature - Religious aspects |
Religion and science |
Holy, The |
Philosophy of nature |
Environmental ethics |
Human ecology - Religious aspects |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Introduction; 1 Religion and Religions; 2 The Order of Nature; 3 Philosophy and the Misdeeds of Philosophy; 4 The Traditional Sciences, the Scientific Revolution, and Its Aftermath; 5 The Tragic Consequences of Humanism in the West; 6 The Rediscovery of Nature: Religion and the Environmental Crisis; 7 The Wisdom of the Body; 8 Religion and the Resacralization of Nature; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Argues that the ecological crisis has been exacerbated by the reductionist view of nature that has been advanced by modern secular science. What is needed, the author believes, if the recovery of the truth to which the great enduring religions all attest: that nature is sacred. |
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