Who are the patron saints of ecology?
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| The success of the folk saint spawns other saints who also attract followers. | |
| More important than their afflictions are the social circumstances of those who appeal to St. Martin and analyzing some others in detail, we can demonstrate that the most important elements in those appeals are the social weakness of the appellants, their need for a saintly patron, and Martin's role as a model saintly patron in Gregory's world | |
01 Jan 2018 | These interactions speak to a vision of the Christian world in which animals are the collaborators with and companions of saints as they assist each other toward spiritual growth. |
36 Citations | Points 2, 3 and 4 above demonstrate how the Journal of Applied Ecology communicates the value and utility of ecology to society at large. |
| Any plausible and up-to-date articulation of an ‘ecotheology’ should be informed by the new New Ecology and not the old New Ecology. | |
| The fieldwork observations that I will describe below, suggest that the changes in the traditional religious institutions of the saints of the Atlas, are cause and effect of the way in which these pastures are managed, and that this symbolic system is a relevant part of local economy and ecology. | |
| It argues for the significance of male saints serving as devotional models for the lay audience of these texts (both men and women). | |
| Appeals to the saints in Gregory's world are to be understood as one manifestation of the Roman ritual of appeal to a patron. | |
| This paper claim that saints must be at the core of a more ethnographic and radical approach to the Anthropology of Religion. | |
| It is a bold first attempt to connect various fields of ecology with restoration ecology. | |
| First, an individual's relationship with ‘saints’ is often determined primarily by social context rather than simply by doctrinal allegiance or the compulsions of particular ‘beliefs’. | |
| For readers interested in saints' cults, the ritualization of power, and the relationship between gender and religion this stimulating study offers valuable insights. | |
31 Jan 2005 72 Citations | In his evaluation of them he provides new insights into the genesis, transmission and historical development of the genre of Greek saints' vitae. |
42 Citations | This brief review demonstrates that, while representing a minority of political ecology scholarship, work variously engaging with ecology remains an active and fertile area. |
| Pluralistic and ecumenical approaches to landscape ecology are needed if its objects of study – cultural landscapes – are not merely to be “studied” but also “improved.” | |
| Although our focus is on agro-ecology, many of the results are broadly applicable to other fields involving an interaction between human activities and ecology. | |
| We offer that historical ecology is complementary with institutional and economic approaches to the analysis of NRM institutions, and possesses a particular strength in linking ecology to the values and norms of small social groups. | |
| Our data show an association between the transformation of traditional individual beliefs in local Saints and new agro-pastoral practices that have previously been linked to the disappearance of Agdal-managed pastures and biodiversity loss. |