The great conversation : nature and the care of the soul / Belden C. Lane.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lane, Belden C., 1943- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmentalism--Religious aspects.

Environmentalism.

Spirituality.

Nature--Religious aspects.

Nature.

Well-being--Religious aspects.

Well-being.

Lane, Belden C., 1943-.

Lane, Belden C.

Physical Description:

xii, 329 pages : illustrations, portrait ; 25 cm

Other Title:

Nature and the care of the soul

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]

Summary:

"The Great Conversation is Lane's multi-faceted treatise on a spiritually centered environmentalism. At the core is a belief in the power of the natural world to act as teacher. In a series of personal anecdotes, Lane pairs his own experiences in the wild with the writings of saints and sages from a wide range of religious traditions. A night in a Missourian cave brings to mind the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola; the canyons of southern Utah elicit a response from the Chinese philosopher Laozi; 500,000 migrating sandhill cranes rest in Nebraska and evoke the Sufi poet Farid ud-Din Attar. With each chapter, the humility of spiritual masters through the ages melds with the author's encounters with natural teachers to offer guidance for entering once more into a conversation with the world."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Wilderness and soul work

Part I, Beginning to listen: Restoring the great conversation ; Falling in love with a tree

Part II, Nature teachers and the spiritual life: Air, the child: Birds: sandhill cranes, the Platte River, and Farid ud-Din Attar

Wind: Buford Mountain and the way of a pilgrim

Trees: a cottonwood tree in a city park and Hildegard of Bingen - Fire, the adolescent: Wildfire: North Laramie River trail and Catherine of Siena

Stars: Cahokia Mounds and Origen of Alexandria

Deserts: the Western Australian bush and Gregory of Nyssa

Water, the adult: Rivers: Colorado's Lost Creek wilderness and Teresa of Avila

Canyons: Grand Staircase-Escalante Wilderness and Laozi

Islands: Monhegan Island and Nikos Kazantzakis

Earth, the elder: Mountains: Hemmed-In-Hollow and the Baal Shem Tov

Caves: Lewis Cave and Ignatius of Loyola

Wolves: Greater Yellowstone ecosystem and Francis of Assisi

Conclusion: Taking the great conversation seriously.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-317) and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

0190842679

9780190842673

OCLC:

1050132202