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03432aam a2200433 i 4500 001 EB659DF4214711EEBC7340321FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230713010558 008 220624t20232023enka b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2022030263 020 $a 0367627752 020 $a 9780367627751 020 $a 0367627744 020 $a 9780367627744 035 $a (OCoLC)1352248586 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d YDX $d OBE $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 10 $a BL65.E36 $b N67 2023 082 00 $a 201/.77 $2 23/eng20221129 100 1 $a Northcott, Michael S., $e author. 245 10 $a God and Gaia : $b science, religion and ethics on a living planet / $c Michael S. Northcott. 264 1 $a Abingdon, Oxon ; $b Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, $c 2023. 300 $a x, 271 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 25 cm. 490 1 $a Routledge environmental humanities 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a From deep time to ancestral time -- In Borneo -- Diversity and development -- Reverse engineering life -- Biosecurity, COVID-19, and human-Earth healing -- The Earth as Gaia -- Gaia and God -- Gaian ethics. 520 $a "God and Gaia explores the overlap between traditional religious cosmologies and the scientific Gaia theory of James Lovelock. It argues that a Gaian approach to the ecological crisis involves rebalancing human and more-than-human influences on Earth by reviving the ecological agency of local and indigenous human communities, and of nonhuman beings. Present-day human ecological influences on Earth have been growing at pace since the Scientific and Industrial Revolutions, when modern humans adopted a machine cosmology in which humans are the sole intelligent agency. The resultant imbalance between human and Earthly agencies is degrading the species diversity of ecosystems, causing local climate changes, and threatens to destabilise the Earth as a System. Across eight chapters this ambitious text engages with traditional cosmologies from the Indian Vedas and classical Greece to Medieval Christianity, with case material from Southeast Asia, Southern Africa and Great Britain. It discusses concepts such as deep time and ancestral time, the ethics of genetic engineering of foods and viruses, and holistic ecological management. Calling for an ontological turn that honours the differential agency of other beings and draws on sacred traditions, Northcott argues that it is possible to repair the destabilising impacts of contemporary human activities on the Earth System and its constituent ecosystems. This book will be of considerable interest to students and scholars of the environmental humanities, history, cultural and religious studies"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Human ecology $x Religious aspects. 650 0 $a Gaia hypothesis. 650 0 $a Religion and science. 650 7 $a Gaia hypothesis. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00937049 650 7 $a Human ecology $x Religious aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00962964 650 7 $a Religion and science. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01093848 776 08 $i Online version: $a Northcott, Michael S. $t God and Gaia $d Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023 $z 9781003110750 $w (DLC) 2022030264 830 0 $a Routledge environmental humanities. 941 $a 1 952 $l PLAX964 $d 20230718100444.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=EB659DF4214711EEBC7340321FECA4DB 994 $a 92 $b IOHInitiate Another SILO Locator Search