Nature, Space and the Sacred offers the first investigative mapping of a new and highly significant agenda: the spatial interactions between religion, nature and culture. In this ground-breaking work, different concepts of religion, theology, space and place and their internal relations are discussed in an impressive range of approaches. Weaving together a diversity of perspectives, this book presents an innovative and truly transdisciplinary environmental science. Its broad range offers a rich exchange of insights, methods and theoretical engagements.

Contents: Preface, Sallie McFague; Editorial, S. Bergmann; P.M. Scott, M. Jansdotter Samuelson and H. Bedford-Strohm; Nature space and the sacred: introductory remarks, Sigurd Bergmann; Part A Earthing the Sacred: Transforming the theological climate in response to climate change: Jesus and the mystery of giving, Anne Primavesi; The whole household of God: the use of the oikos metaphor in the built and non-built environment, Ernst M. Conradie; Interpreting heaven and earth: the theological construction of nature, place and the built environment, Forrest Clingerman. Part B Ethics in Natural and Built Space: Atmospheric space, climate change and the communion of saints, Michael S. Northcott; Biodiversity and Christian ethics: a critical discussion, Anders Melin; Master of the universe or the humble servant: how the concept of sustainable development is affecting our understanding of humanity and nature, Björn Vikström; The proper praise for an architecture of the improper - Joseph Beuys: building with butter, Annette Homann; Ideal landscapes - landscape design between beauty and meaning, Carola Wingren; The altar of the dead: a temporal space for memory and meaning in the contemporary urban landscape, Anna Petersson. Part C Nature as Entanglement: The wedge and the knot: hammering and stitching the face of nature, Tim Ingold; Knowing natural spaces: reinterpreting deep ecology as phenomenology, Kingsley Goodwin; Seeking transformation in a consumer world: can we achieve a unity of ends and means?, Anna Duhon and Lisa M. Jokivirta; Restoring or restorying nature?, Glenn Deliège. Part D Sacred Geographies: Indigenous, embodied knowing: a study in Crow/Apsaalooke space, nature and the sacred, John A. Grim; Natural sacred places in landscape: an Estonian model, Marju Kõivupuu; The domestic order and its feral threat: the intellectual heritage of the neolithic landscape, Tihamer R. Kover; Sacred sites in Kyrgyzstan: spiritual mission, health and pilgrimage, Gulnara