When God Was a Bird: Christianity, Animism, and the Re-Enchantment of the World

by Mark I Wallace and Mark I. Wallace

Book Overview

2019 NAUTILUS GOLD WINNER

In a time of rapid climate change and species extinction, what role have the world's religions played in ameliorating--or causing--the crisis we now face? Religion in general, and Christianity in particular, appears to bear a disproportionate burden for creating humankind's exploitative attitudes toward nature through unearthly theologies that divorce human beings and their spiritual yearnings from their...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823281310
• ISBN13: 9780823281312
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.2" x 8.9"