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...
| Published in: | Journal for the study of religion, nature and culture |
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| Subtitles: | "Special Issue Forum: On Mother Earth" |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Equinox Publ.
2024
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Journal for the study of religion, nature and culture
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| Further subjects: | B
MotherEarth
B identityformation B ecologymove ments B NativeAmerican B MEME B Religious Studies B conspiracyofsilence B AustralianAboriginal |
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| ISSN: | 1749-4915 |
| Reference: | Kritik in "Following the Storytracks (2024)"
Kritik in "Reinterpreting Mother Earth (2024)" Kritik in ""Mother Earth" is an Ancient Meme in the Global North (2024)" Kritik in "Mother Earth, Cultural Authenticity, and Canadian Law (2024)" Kritik in "Response to Sam Gill's Article "What is Mother Earth?: a name, a Meme, a Conspiracy (2024)" |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for the study of religion, nature and culture
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1558/jsrnc.19924 |