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Nature, Technology and the Sacred

ISBN: 978-0-631-23604-7
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240 pages
January 2005, Wiley-Blackwell
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Preface ix

Acknowledgements xvii

Part I Modernity, Nature and the Sacred 1

1 The Disenchantment of the World 3

2 Nature, Secularization and the Transformation of the Sacred 10

Part II Nature and Technology 29

3 Nature, Science and the Death of Pan 31

4 Modern Technology and the Sacred 51

Part III The Body and its Environment 65

5 The Body, Healing and the Sacred 67

6 The Birth of ‘the Environment’ 84

Part IV Against the Technological Condition 109

7 The Politicization of Nature 111

8 Nature, Virtue and Everyday Life 125

9 Nature and Public Speech 140

Part V The Future of the Sacred 157

10 The Global Sacred 159

11 Nature, Technology and the Sacred: a Postscript 171

Notes 179

References 188

Index 211

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