Learning Love from a Tiger: Religious Experiences with Nature

Author:   Daniel Capper
Publisher:   University of California Press
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9780520290426


Pages:   320
Publication Date:   19 April 2016
Format:   Paperback
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Learning Love from a Tiger: Religious Experiences with Nature


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Learning Love from a Tiger explores the vibrancy and variety of humans’ sacred encounters with the natural world, gathering a range of stories culled from Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Mayan, Himalayan, Buddhist, and Chinese shamanic traditions. Readers will delight in tales of house cats who teach monks how to meditate, shamans who shape-shift into jaguars, crickets who perform Catholic mass, rivers that grant salvation, and many others. In addition to being a collection of wonderful stories, this book introduces important concepts and approaches that underlie much recent work in environmental ethics, religion, and ecology. Daniel Capper’s light touch prompts readers to engage their own views of humanity’s place in the natural world and question longstanding assumptions of human superiority.

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Author:   Daniel Capper
Publisher:   University of California Press
Imprint:   University of California Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.408kg
ISBN:  

9780520290426


ISBN 10:   0520290429
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   19 April 2016
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
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List of Illustrations Introduction: Into Muir's Forest 1. All the Christian Birds Chanted 2. The Donkey Who Communed with Allah 3. Hindu Trees Tremble with Ecstasy 4. Sharing Mayan Natural Souls 5. Friendly Yetis 6. Enlightened Buddhist Stones Epilogue: The Mountain Peaks Leaped and Danced Notes Bibliography Index

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Daniel Capper is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religion at the University of Southern Mississippi and the author of Guru Devotion and the American Buddhist Experience.

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