Notes
2 Religion in the Global Human Community
1 Mircea Eliade,
The Quest: History and Meaning in Religion (Chicago: University Of Chicago Press, 1984), 62.
3 René Dubos,
The Dreams of Reason: Science and Utopias (New York: Columbia University Press, 1961), 123.
3 Alienation
1 Yoga Sutras of Patanjali 1.3.
4 Historical and Contemporary Spirituality
1 John Neihardt,
Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux (New York: Pocket Books, 1972), 35.
6 Religion in the Twenty-first Century
1 Peter Raven, “We’re Killing Our World: The Global Ecosystem in Crisis,” Keynote speech, American Association of the Advancement of Science, Chicago, 1987.
7 Religion in the Ecozoic Era
1 Charles Krauthammer, “Essay,”
Time (June 17, 1991).
2 J. E. Strickland, ed.,
William Strickland’s Journal of a Tour in the United States (New York: New-York Historical Society, 1971).
4 Wang Yang-ming, “Inquiry on the Great Learning,” in
Instructions for Practical Living and Other Neo-Confucian Writings by Wang Yang-ming, trans. Wing-tsit Chan (New York: Columbia University Press, 1963), 273.
8 The Gaia Hypothesis: Its Religious Implications
1 H. Frankfort, H. A. Frankfort, John A. Wilson, Thorkild Jacobsen, and William A. Irwin,
The Intellectual Adventure of Ancient Man: An Essay on Speculative Thought in the Ancient Near East (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1946), 4.
2 Interview with Edgar Mitchell by Stanley Rosen, Palo Alto, Calif., July 1974. Quoted in Kevin W. Kelley,
The Home Planet (Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1988), 138.
3 Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica 1.47.l.
9 The Cosmology of Religions
1 Thomas Aquinas
Summa Contra Gentiles 2.45.10.
10 An Ecologically Sensitive Spirituality
11 The Universe as Divine Manifestation
1 David Abram,
The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World (New York: Vintage Books, 1997), 264.
12 The Sacred Universe
1 The statement by Thomas Paine is found in the appendix to the third edition of
Common Sense: “A situation, similar to the present, hath not happened since the days of Noah until now.”
2 Annette Kolodny,
Lay of the Land: Metaphor as Experience in American Life and Letters (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1975), 10.
3 Speech by Powhatan, as recorded by John Smith, 1609, in P. L. Barbour, ed.,
The Jamestown Voyages, 375, and quoted in T. C. McLuhan,
Touch the Earth: A Self-Portrait of Indian Existence (Edison, N.J.: BBS Publishing Corp., 1992), 66.
6 Morton J. Horwitz,
The Transformation of American Law: 1780-1860 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1979), 253-254.
13 The World of Wonder
1 Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan,
Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of Microbial Evolution (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997), 191.
2 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin,
The Human Phenomenon, trans. Sarah Apple-ton-Weber (Eastbourne, East Sussex: Sussex Academic Press, 1999), 3.
3 Henry David Thoreau,
Walking: A Little Book of Wisdom (New York: Harper Collins, 1994), 19. This was originally published as the essay “Walking” in
Atlantic Monthly, after Thoreau’s death in 1862.