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Worldviews, Religion, and the Environment: A Global Anthology

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Having read some articles in this textbook for class, I came across some readings that opened my mind to new ideas that I never considered.

For example, I never considered myself to be a religious person because I didn't want to be told how to live my life. However, after I read Loy's article in the textbook, I discovered that I did buy into a religion called market capitalism, and that I didn't think completely for myself, as I had previously thought. Unconsciously, market capitalism was telling me how to live (by keep working), how to percieve the world (by being competitive), and how much I was humanly worth (by the amount of money I made).

This textbook has many eye opening articles as the one mentioned above, and some of your light bulbs may get lit too.

This is a fantastic collection of essays pertaining to the subject matter at hand. I wish the article pertaining to Australian Aboriginal thinking was around and available to mail to Durkheim x amount of years ago! As an educator this would be a book I would seriously consider using if you have the opportunity to teach a Religions of the World Course, or, implementing it in a new "Religions and the Environment" course which is in serious need at the moment. If your like me and you like to sit around and read textbooks this is a great grab...you will not be dissappointed.