City of the Good: Nature, Religion, and the Ancient Search for What Is Right
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City of the Good: Nature, Religion, and the Ancient Search for What Is Right
By (Author) Michael Mayerfield Bell
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
23rd April 2018
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Urban communities
Religion and beliefs
Philosophy of religion
Ethics and moral philosophy
201.77
Physical Properties
Hardback
360
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
624g
Description
How faith, the natural world, and community can provide complementary paths for leading a good life People have long looked to nature and the divine as paths to the good. In this panoramic meditation on the harmonious life, Michael Mayerfeld Bell traces how these two paths came to be seen as separate from human ways, and how many of today's confli
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Author Bio
Michael Mayerfeld Bell is Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Community and Environmental Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he is also a faculty associate in religious studies, environmental studies, and agroecology. His many books include the award-winning Farming for Us All: Practical Agriculture and the Cultivation of Sustainability and Childerley: Nature and Morality in a Country Village.
