Sacred Landscapes and Cultural Politics : Planting a Tree (Hardcover)

Contents: Introduction; Contested Cultural Politics: Isaac and the Elk: nature’s unnatural acts, Lynda Sexson; Alternative geographies: from cosmography to geography, John Rennie Short; Of tee shirts and tree seedlings: the hidden problems with religion and the environment dialogues, Jane Marie Law; Once and Future Sacred Landscapes: Sacred landscapes of Kirinyaga: indigenous and early Islamic and Christian influences, Alfonso Peter Castro and Adelle Tibbetts; No nature apart: Adivasi cosmovision and ecological discourses in Jharkhand, India, Pramod Parajuli; Story, ritual and environment in Rajasthan, Ann Grodzins Gold; Planting a Tree: We plant a tree of peace: the Syracuse University tree-planting ceremony, Chief Jake Swamp and Anna M. Schein; Sacred landscapes of New York State and the problem of religion in America, Philip P. Arnold; Bibliography.