ISBN:
0231537697
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9780231537698
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (590 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Shugart, H.H Foundations of the Earth
DDC:
304.2
Keywords:
Bible Criticism, interpretation, etc
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Bible
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Human ecology Religious aspects
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Environmental degradation Religious aspects
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Ecology Religious aspects
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Natural history Religious aspects
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Religion and science
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Bible and science
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RELIGION ; Biblical Criticism & Interpretation ; General
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SCIENCE ; Environmental Science
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Bible and science
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Ecology ; Religious aspects
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Environmental degradation ; Religious aspects
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Human ecology ; Religious aspects
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Natural history ; Religious aspects
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Religion and science
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Criticism, interpretation, etc
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Abstract:
8. Making the Ground Put Forth Grass: The Relationship Between Climate and VegetationClimate and Vegetation; Climate-Vegetation Relationships in a Changing World; Concluding Comments; 9. Feeding the Lions: The Conservation of Biological Diversity on a Changing Planet; On the Conservation of the Bright and Beautiful, Big and Dangerous; The Megafaunal Extinctions at the End of the Pleistocene; Conserving Diversity on a Changing Planet; Concluding Comments; 10. Making Weather and Influencing Climate: Human Engineering of the Earth; Making Weather; Geoengineering: Climate Modification.
Abstract:
?Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth?" God asks Job in the?Whirlwind Speech," but Job cannot reply. This passage?which some environmentalists and religious scholars treat as a?green" creation myth?drives H.H. Shugart's extraordinary investigation, in which he uses verses from God's speech to Job to explore the planetary system, animal domestication, sea-level rise, evolution, biodiversity, weather phenomena, and climate change. Shugart calls attention to the rich resonance between the Earth's natural history and the workings of religious feeling, the wisdom of
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Concluding Comments11. Conclusion: Comprehending the Earth; Notes; Index.
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1. Introduction; On Job and the Whirlwind Speeches; The Whirlwind Speech; The Whirlwind Speech as an Account of Planetary Creation and Function; The Antiquity of the Job Text; Questions to Job from the Whirlwind; 2. Laying the Foundation of the Earth; The Origin of the Earth; Laying the Foundation of the Earth; Concluding Comments; 3. Taming the Unicorn, Yoking the Aurochs: Animal and Plant Domestication and the Consequent Alteration of the Surface of the Earth; The Unicorn; The Wild Ox; The Domestication of Animals.
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The Ordinances of the Heavens and Their Rule on EarthBiological and Ecological Timing; Knowing When the Mountain Goats Give Birth; Migration: When Birds Turn Their Wings Toward the South; Concluding Comments; 7. The Dwelling of the Light and the Paths to Its Home: Winds, Ocean Currents, and the Global Energy Balance; Föhns and Chinooks: Physical Processes Behind the Pattern; Tropical Cyclones, Hurricanes, and Typhoons; The Hadley Circulation: The Paths to Home; Winds and Ocean Gyres; Light's Pathway Home: The Global Radiation Balance; Concluding Comments.
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The Dog as the First Domesticated AnimalYoking the Aurochs; Changing Regional Land Cover; Concluding Comments; 4. Freeing the Onager: Feral and Introduced Animals; The Onager; The Onager as a Draft Animal; Humans as a Keystone Species; Introduced Species; Ecosystems and Anthro-Ecosystems on a Human-Dominated Planet; Concluding Comments; 5. Bounding the Seas, Freezing the Face of the Deep: When the Sea Is Loosed from Its Bonds; The Tides; Past Sea Levels; Future Sea Level Rise; Concluding Comments; 6. The Ordinances of the Heavens and Their Rule on Earth: Adaptation and the Cycles of Life.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.7312/shug16908
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