Learning Love from a Tiger : Religious Experiences with Nature / Daniel Capper.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Capper, D. (Daniel), Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nature--Religious aspects--Comparative studies.

Nature.

Animals--Religious aspects--Comparative studies.

Animals.

Animals (Philosophy).

Human-animal relationships--Philosophy.

Human-animal relationships.

Human-animal relationships--Religious aspects--Comparative studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (314 pages)

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Introduction

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

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780520964600

0520964608

OCLC:

930508907