How are we placed on Earth? What is our relationship to the
world around us, and how< does our thinking affect the way we
relate to the world? We are entrapped, says A. James Wohlpart, by
what Martin Heidegger calls "enframing," a worldview that considers
all objects as mere resources for our use. Walking in the Land
of Many Gods envisions a new way of thinking about the world,
one grounded in a moral imagination reconnected to Earth.
Insightful readings of three contemporary classics of nature
writing-Janisse Ray's Ecology of a Cracker Childhood,
Terry Tempest Williams's Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family
and Place, and Linda Hogan's Dwellings: A Spiritual
History of the Living World-are at the heart of Wohlpart's
endeavor. Powerful and affecting works like these reveal a pathway
to a deeper remembering, one that reconnects us with the primal
forces of creation and acknowledges the sacredness of the
world.
We have forgotten that the world around us is rich and fertile and
generative, says Wohlpart. His exploration of these literary works,
based on deep anthropology and Native American philosophy, opens a
pathway into a new way of thinking called sacred reason. Founded on
interdependence and interrelationship, and on care and compassion,
sacred reason reminds us that divinity exists around us at all
times. We are invited to walk, once again, in a land filled with
many gods.
eISBN: 978-0-8203-4587-1
Subjects: Environmental Science
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