scholarly journals “Between the Mouth of the Two Rivers”

2021 ◽  
Vol 51 (44) ◽  
pp. 34-53
Author(s):  
Anna Perdibon
Keyword(s):  
Nature Religion

This contribution offers an anthropological view of holy waters, springs, sacred rivers, and trees in the ancient Mesopotamian religious framework. Water is omnipresent in Mesopotamian myths and rituals, particularly in association with the cosmic Apsû, the primeval source of all waters. The pristine waters flow out through springs in the mountains and form the flowing bodies of rivers. For the Babylonians and Assyrians, rivers and watercourses were sacred and cosmic entities, often worshipped as deities. The Tigris and the Euphrates particularly appeared as river deities, with life-giving, motherly, healing, and judging roles. This essay considers the interrelationships between the Apsû, springs and sacred rivers, and the associated sacred trees, mountains and anthropomorphic deities, to shed new light onto ancient Mesopotamian notions about nature, religion, and the cosmos.

scholarly journals Die noodsaaklikheid van habitat in ons definisie van menswees: Op soek na ’n eko-teologiese verstaan van menslike lewe

2012 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Johan Buitendag
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Human Person ◽  
Christian Anthropology ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Cultural Paradigm ◽  
Nature Religion ◽  
Body And Soul ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Theological Understanding ◽  
Deep Green

The indispensability of habitat in our definition of human personhood: In search of an eco-theological understanding of human life. The endeavour of this article is to arrive at a theological responsible conception of life. Life cannot be described adequately only in terms of body and soul (and/or spirit), or even in terms of human personhood. The point is that it is constitutive for life to take the human being’s environment sociologically as well as ecologically into account. This article does not plead for a nature religion as advocated by the Deep Green Movement and all its variations of naturalism and supernaturalism, but asks for a revaluation of a Christian anthropology which approaches the Bible with a green hermeneutics. Perhaps the expression, ‘bio-cultural’ paradigm requests to be substituted with an eco-sociological niche of the human person. An eco-sociological (eco-theological) understanding of homo religiosus is therefore to assume human life as ontologically ‘distributed’.

Towards an Axiological Sociology

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 308-321
Author(s):  
Nathalie Heinich
Keyword(s):  
Power Relations ◽  
Ontological Status ◽  
Sociological Approach ◽  
Epistemological Status ◽  
Nature Religion

Having proposed a 10-point summary of her book Des valeurs. Une approche sociologique ( Values: A Sociological Approach), Nathalie Heinich responds to the comments of Laurence Kaufmann and Philippe Gonzalez, Danilo Martuccelli, and Louis Quéré, as well as to Hervé Glevarec’s review published in the same issue of Questions de communication. Nine themes are successively addressed: issues of vocabulary, the relevance or irrelevance of certain problems (nature, religion), the issue of emotions, the ontological status of valuation, the epistemological status of an ‘axiological grammar’ and its explanatory or comprehensive purpose, the historicity and contextuality of values, the place of the sociology of power relations, the issue of behaviour and empirical observability, and, finally, the controversy about ‘axiological neutrality’.

scholarly journals “A Fourfold Vision: Nature Religion and the Wages of Scientism in Ursula K. Le Guin’s ‘Newton’s Sleep’”

Religions ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. 279
Author(s):  
Catherine Newell
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Space Station ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Religious Intolerance ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Contemporary Science ◽  
Nature Religion ◽  
Near Future

Ursula K. Le Guin’s 1991 short story ‘Newton’s Sleep’ begins in a utopic society that escaped the environmental and social calamity of a near-future Earth and created an enlightened culture on a space station. The group, led by a scientific elite, pride themselves on eradicating the irrational prejudices and unempirical mentality that hamstringed Earth; but chaos blossoms as the society struggles with the reappearance of religious intolerance, and becomes confused by an outbreak of mass hallucinations of the Earth they left behind. This narrative trope of the necessity of nature for the survival of humanity—physically, mentally, and spiritually—represents a new and relatively common allegory in contemporary science fiction in an era distinguished by separation from the natural world.

scholarly journals A Transcendentalist Nature Religion

Religions ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (8) ◽  
pp. 130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Friesner
Keyword(s):  
Nature Religion
Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document