Suchergebnisse

Rooting in: why give time to sacred trees? -- A brief history of tree-thinking: the enduring power of animism -- How arboreal matter matters: rethinking sacrality through trees -- Arboriculture and arboreal deaths: rethinking sacrality again -- Confronting arboreal agency: reading the divine in arboreal behaviour -- Imagining the gods: how trees flesh out the identity of the divine -- Branching out: what sacred trees mean for Roman religion

Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction Ailsa Hunt and Hilary Marlow -- 1 Ancient Ideas of Politics: Mediating between Ecology and Theology Melissa Lane -- 2 The Ecology of the Sibylline Oracles Helen Van Noorden -- 3 Self-Sufficiency as a Divine Attribute in Greek Philosophy David Sedley -- 4 A Lighter Shade of Green: Stoic Gods and Environmental Virtue Ethics Christoph Jedan -- 5 Cosmic Beauty in Stoicism: A Foundation for an Environmental Ethic as Love of the Other? Jula Wildberger -- 6 Some Ancient Philosophical and Religious Roots of Modern Environmentalism Robin Attfield -- 7 Creatures in Creation: Human Perceptions of the Sea in the Hebrew Bible in Ecological Perspective Rebecca Watson -- 8 Reconsidering the Chthonic in Aeschylus' Oresteia: Erinyes, the Earth's Resources and the Cosmic Order Emmanuela Bakola -- 9 The Anguish of the Earth: Ecology and Warfare in the First World War and the Bible Hilary Marlow -- 10 Pagan Animism: A Modern Myth for a Green Age Ailsa Hunt -- Notes -- References -- Index