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Article: Purifying the earthly body of God: religion and ecology in Hindu India (SUNY Ser. relig. Stud.).(Review)
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- Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
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- March 1, 2001
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NELSON, LANCE E. (ed.). Purifying the earthly body of God: religion and ecology in Hindu India (SUNY Ser. relig. Stud.). ix, 366 pp., bibliogr. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 1998
Environmental philosophies have a conflicted relationship with the mainstream religions that dominate the world today. At various times scholars have carried out valuable enquiries into the precise nature of the relationship, asking questions about the Judaeo-Christian tradition and the Green Movement in Europe and North America. More recently, some anthropologists have provided fascinating studies of the 'ecology monks' in Thailand and through them an analysis of ...