Sacred Landscapes and Cultural Politics

Over the past decades concern for environmental degradation at local and global levels has steadily increased. The topic remains a politically charged, media-invested, ongoing focus of public interest. This collection of essays explores some of the ways different religious perceptions and cultural values affect human beings' understandings of their relationship with nature, their actions in and upon the natural environment. The essays confront and explore important and persistant themes of the new millennium era, centering on the planet's fate as it is linked with the fate of the human species.