Healing Nature: Spiritual Ecology, Self-Cultivation, and Social Transformation in Hong Kong

This paper provides the first ethnographic study of spiritual ecology in contemporary Hong Kong. In exploring the life stories of people who wanted to “heal” nature as well as those who were being “healed” by nature through the practice of green living, this paper illuminates the interconnection bet...

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Main Author: Lou, Loretta I. T. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2023
In: Worldviews
Year: 2023, Volume: 27, Issue: 3, Pages: 189-209
Further subjects:B Environmentalism
B Hong Kong
B spiritual ecology
B China
B self-cultivation
B Social movement
B life transition
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