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050 00 $aGF656$b.R45 2014
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245 00 $aReligion and ecological sustainability in China /$cedited by James Miller, Dan Smyer Yu, and Peter van der Veer.
264 1 $aLondon ;$aNew York :$bRoutledge,$c2014.
300 $axx, 247 pages ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aRoutledge contemporary China series ;$v119
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $a"This book sheds light on the social imagination of nature and environment in contemporary China. It demonstrates how the urgent debate on how to create an ecologically sustainable future for the world's most populous country is shaped by its complex engagement with religious traditions, competing visions of modernity and globalization, and by engagement with minority nationalities who live in areas of outstanding natural beauty on China's physical and social margins. The book develops a comprehensive understanding of contemporary China that goes beyond the tradition/ modernity dichotomy, and illuminates the diversity of narratives and worldviews that inform contemporary Chinese understandings of and engagements with nature and environment"--$cProvided by publisher.
520 $a"This book sheds light on the social imagination of nature and environment in contemporary China. It demonstrates how the urgent debate on how to create an ecologically sustainable future for the world's most populous country is shaped by its complex engagement with religious traditions, competing visions of modernity and globalization, and by engagement with minority nationalities who live in areas of outstanding natural beauty on China's physical and social margins"--$cProvided by publisher.
505 00 $tIntroduction: the diversity of eco-religious practice in China /$rDan Smyer Yu, with James Miller and Peter van der Veer --$tEcology and the classics /$rMary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim --$tConceptualizations of earth and land in classical Chinese texts /$rDeborah Sommer -- 'The Great Virtue of Heaven and Earth' : deep ecology in the Yijing /$rJoseph A. Adler --$t'Hard-hearted' and 'soft-hearted' ecologies : a rereading of Confucian and Daoist classics /$rChen Xia and Peng Guoxiang with James Miller --$tGods and nature in Highest Clarity Daoism /$rJames Miller --$tWhen the land is excellent : village feng shui forests and the nature of lineage, polity and vitality in southern China /$rChris Coggins --$tFinding nature in religion, hunting religion from the environment /$rRebecca Nedostup --$tGlobalizations and diversities of nature in China /$rRobert P. Weller --$tIs Chinese popular religion at all compatible with ecology? A discussion of feng shui /$rOle Bruun -- 'Ecological migration' and cultural adaptation : a case study of the Sanjiangyuan Nature Reserve, Qinghai Province /$rQi Jinyu --$tReverse environmentalism : contemporary articulations of Tibetan culture, Buddhism and environmental protection /$rEmily T. Yeh --$tEarthwork, home-making and eco-aesthetics among Amdo Tibetans /$rDan Smyer Yu.
650 0 $aHuman ecology$zChina.
650 0 $aReligion$xSocial aspects$zChina.
650 0 $aNature$xSocial aspects$zChina.
650 0 $aSustainability$zChina.
650 7 $aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General.$2bisacsh
700 1 $aMiller, James,$d1968-
700 1 $aSmyer Yü, Dan.
700 1 $aVeer, Peter van der.
830 0 $aRoutledge contemporary China series ;$v119.
852 00 $beal$hGF656$i.R45 2014