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Mary Lou Dolan CSJ
Ecology and Spirituality

Sister Mary Lou Dolan is the director, M.A. in Earth Literacy at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, IN 47876.
812-535-5160
www.smwc.edu/prospective/graduate/earth


The Other Way to Listen
Byrd Baylor and Peter Parnall
32 pages
Alladin Paperbacks, 1997
$5.99

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This "children's book" narrates a conversation between an old man and a child. Deceptively simple, it teaches contemplative practice in nature.



Coming Back To Life
Practices To Reconnect Our Lives, Our World
Joanna R. Macy
240 pages
BC: New Society Publishers, 1998
$16.95

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Living systems theory and deep ecology within an "engaged Buddhist" framework, this book shows the reader how to use fear and despair to channel their energies into healing the self and world. Many varied rituals for individual or group work.




Super, Natural Christians
How We Should Love Nature
Sallie McFague
200 pages
Fortress Press, 1997
$16.00

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Process theology and feminist thought are used to explain an approach to Christian interaction with nature. Plainly written with powerful behavioral metaphors like "the arrogant eye" (nature as object), "the loving eye" (nature as subject), and "an ethic of care".



Hunting For Hope
A Father's Journeys
Scott Russell Sanders
208 pages
Beacon Press, 1998
$15.00

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Written in response to a challenge from his son, Sanders' splendid essays describe the contents of his "medicine bag of hope"- family, fidelity, skill, beauty, the way of things. Sanders writes beautifully and reverently about the holiness of nature and "ordinary things."


The Great Work
Our Way Into The Future
Thomas Berry
241 pages
Bell Tower, 1999
$12.95

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A classic work by an eminent cultural historian and "ecologian" that describes the ethics, politics, economics, and educational changes needed for human and planetary survival.

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