Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Contributors ix
5. 1. Introduction 1
6. Part I. The Current Debate
7. 2. Gender, Nature and Trouble with Anti-Dualism 21
8. Part II. The Sacred
9. 3. Sacred Landscapes: Religion and the Natural Environment in the Classical World 45
10. 4. Aboriginal Women and Sacred Landscapes in Northern Australia 63
11. 5. The Separation of the Sexes Among Siberian Reindeer Herders 81
12. 6. Priestesses and Environment in Zimbabwe 95
13. 7. Rice, Women, Men, and the Natural Environment among the Kelabit of Sarawak 107
14. Part III. The Great Religions
15. 8. Ecology and Christian Hierarchy 119
16. 9. Text and Practice: Women and Nature in Islam 141
17. 10. Soil as the Goddess Bhudevi in a Tamil Hindu Women’s Ritual: The Kolam in India 159
18. 11. Nature and Gender in Theravada Buddhism 175
19. 12. Nature, Holism and Ecofeminism: A Chinese Worldview 195
20. Part IV. New Trends
21. 13. Children of the Gods: The Quest for Wholeness in Contemporary Paganism 217
22. Select Bibliography 239
23. Index 251