What is Mother Earth?: a Name, a Meme, a Conspiracy

A rich appreciation of Mother Earth - in the entwined contexts of Native American, Australian Aboriginal, Western intellectual, and contemporary ecological movements - is accomplished in this paper using new perspectives and strategies: Mother Earth as name, meme, and conspiracy. This approach is de...

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Nebentitel:"Special Issue Forum: On Mother Earth"
1. VerfasserIn: Gill, Sam D. 1943- (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Equinox Publ. 2024
In: Journal for the study of religion, nature and culture
Jahr: 2024, Band: 18, Heft: 2, Seiten: 162-188
weitere Schlagwörter:B MotherEarth
B identityformation
B ecologymove ments
B NativeAmerican
B MEME
B Religious Studies
B conspiracyofsilence
B AustralianAboriginal
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Zusammenfassung:A rich appreciation of Mother Earth - in the entwined contexts of Native American, Australian Aboriginal, Western intellectual, and contemporary ecological movements - is accomplished in this paper using new perspectives and strategies: Mother Earth as name, meme, and conspiracy. This approach is developed and illustrated to offer insight into the dynamics of identity formation of individual cultures, amalgams of cultures, academic approaches, and ecological movements that span the globe, always occurring in the context of threatening, yet creative, encounters. Projecting beyond the Mother Earth example, the paper proposes a vision of the academic study of cultures and religions that focuses on gesture and repetition demonstrating that conditions of coherence, in the presence of the constant threat of incoherence, may be more valuable than discerning meaning.
ISSN:1749-4915
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Enthält:Enthalten in: Journal for the study of religion, nature and culture
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1558/jsrnc.19924