Religion and Ecological Sustainability in China Contributor(s): Miller, James (Editor), Smyer Yu, Dan (Editor), Van Der Veer, Peter (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1138079286 ISBN-13: 9781138079281 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $58.89 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 2017 |
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BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - General - Social Science | Regional Studies |
Physical Information: 270 pages |
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Publisher Description: This book sheds light on the social imagination of nature and environment in contemporary China. It demonstrates how the urgent debate on how to create an ecologically sustainable future for the world's most populous country is shaped by its complex engagement with religious traditions, competing visions of modernity and globalization, and by engagement with minority nationalities who live in areas of outstanding natural beauty on China's physical and social margins. The book develops a comprehensive understanding of contemporary China that goes beyond the tradition/ modernity dichotomy, and illuminates the diversity of narratives and worldviews that inform contemporary Chinese understandings of and engagements with nature and environment. |