Deep Blue : Critical Reflections on Nature, Religion and Water.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Artist's statement -- Contributors -- Preface -- Invocation -- Introduction: sacred waters -- I Entering sacred space -- Editors' introduction -- 1. 'Singing through the sea': song, sea and emotion -- 2. Water of life, water of death: Pagan notions of water from antiquity to today -- 3. The fertility goddess of the Zulu: reflections on a calling to Inkosazana's Pool -- 4. Rivers of memory, lakes of survival: indigenous water traditions and the Anishinaabeg nation -- II Divine connections -- Editors' introduction -- 5. Creature of water -- 6. Saltwater feet: the flow of dance in Oceania -- 7. I am the river bleeding -- 8. Deep blue religion -- III The sacredness of water -- Editors' introduction -- 9. The spirit of the Edge: Rachel Carson and numinous experience between land and sea -- 10. The mystery of waters -- 11. Sister Water: an introduction to blue theology -- 12. Sea spirituality, surfing and aquatic nature religion -- IV Waves of energy: in defence of water -- Editors' introduction -- 13. Animism, economics and sustainable water development -- 14. Blue, green and red: combining energies in defence of water -- 15. Neglect and reclamation of water as sacred resource -- Eco-logue: and in me you find peace -- Close -- Index.

A collection of thirteen essays on nature religion, this book aims to explore dimensions of the human spiritual relationship with river, sea and pool with a view to developing further understandings of the interrelationships between spiritual practice, academic nature religion discourse and environmental concern.

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