Ecospirituality: Religion and Nature

An exploration of world religions’ most foundational ideas about spirit, sentience and the natural world— human and non-human—investigating how they shape our self-understandings, our ethics and even our scientific inquiries. Consideration of some of the most recent scientific findings concerning consciousness in plants and animals, their implications for new understandings of ‘spirit and nature’ and their effect on our whole way of being in the world.

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