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Sacred Nature

Sacred Nature

How we can recover our bond with the natural world

by Karen Armstrong
Paperback
Publication Date: 05/07/2022

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An urgent manifesto and a practical guide on how to change our relationship with nature, by one of the world's leading writers on religion and spirituality

In this hugely powerful book, Karen Armstrong argues that if we want to avert environmental catastrophe, it is not enough to change our behaviour- we need to learn to think and feel differently about the natural world - to rekindle our spiritual bond with nature.

For most of human history, and in almost all the world's cultures, nature was believed to be sacred, and our God or gods to be present everywhere in the natural world. When people in the West began to separate God and nature in modern times, it was not just a profound breach with thousands of years of accumulated wisdom- it also set in train the destruction of the natural world.

Taking themes that have been central to the world's religious traditions - from gratitude and compassion to sacrifice and non-violence - Armstrong offers practical steps to help us develop a new mindset to reconnect with nature and rekindle our sense of the sacred.

Sacred Nature reveals the most profound connections between humans and the natural world. It speaks to anyone interested in our relationship with nature, worried about the destruction of our environment, and searching for new ways of thinking to shape the action needed to save our planet. 

ISBN:
9781847927101
9781847927101
Category:
Nature & existence of God
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
05-07-2022
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
256
Dimensions (mm):
216x135x19mm
Weight:
0.25kg
Karen Armstrong

Karen Armstrong spent seven years as a Roman Catholic nun, an experience she recollected in her two volumes of best-selling autobiography, Through The Narrow Gate and Beginning The World.

She is the author of the world-wide best-seller, A History of God (which has now appeared in more than thirty languages), the acclaimed History of Jerusalem and, more recently, The Battle For God.

She is a teacher at the Leo Baeck College for the Study of Judaism and, in 1999, she received the Muslim Public Affairs Council Media Award.

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