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
6th July 2020
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Urban communities
Religion and beliefs
Philosophy of religion
Ethics and moral philosophy
201.77
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Paperback
360
Width 156mm, Height 235mm
Description
How we came to seek absolute good in religion and nature-and why that quest often leads us astray 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 WisconsinMadison, where he is also a faculty associate in religious studies, environmental studies, and agroecology. His many books include the award-winning Childerley: Nature and Morality in a Country Village and, Farming for Us All: Practical Agriculture and the Cultivation of Sustainability.
