Environment & Nature

“Corn is Life”: Agriculture, Spiritual Life, and Economic Change among the Hopi

The commodification of corn and the decline of subsistence farming has impacted the religious and cultural lives of the Hopi and reflects a corresponding loss in the symbolic content of the sacred world and the decline of the traditional worldview that characterizes the “fallenness” of man.

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Religion and the Environment: An Interview with Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Dr. Seyyed Hossein Nasr’s views on the environment are related to the principial foundations of a cosmology in which the physical environment of the phenomenal world are seen as a manifestation of the theophany rooted in the Sacred, and therefore connecting Man and Nature to God.