{"product_id":"nature-spirituality-and-environmental-crisis-embracing-a-sacred-wounded-earth-paperback","title":"Nature Spirituality and Environmental Crisis: Embracing a Sacred, Wounded Earth - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRoger S. Gottlieb\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor millennia nature has provided spiritual experiences of wonder, gratitude, and peace\u003c\/b\u003e. Now nature is being burned, poisoned, and rendered extinct. This book asks: Can nature still provide spiritual inspiration? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on decades of original work in environmental ethics, religious environmentalism, contemporary spirituality, and fiction, Roger S. Gottlieb explores how ecological crisis reshapes spiritual life. What we trusted would nourish us and our descendants forever is diminished and threatened. We seek a refuge from the cruelties and madness of human culture and find bird species disappearing and oceans filling with plastic. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGottlieb begins by clarifying what spirituality is and why nature has played a central role in it for religious believers and non-believers alike. He then examines the environmental crisis as a civilizational rupture that transforms hope, grief, meaning, and moral responsibility. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNature spirituality, he suggests, must adapt to ecological loss and vulnerability. Difficult as it may be, we can nourish a spirituality in which grief coexists with gratitude, compassion with moral outrage, and acceptance with active solidarity and love for all of life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe book concludes with a fictional narrative illustrating how each of us might face overwhelming environmental realities with a transformed spiritual vision.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRoger S. Gottlieb\u003c\/b\u003e, William B. Smith Professor of Philosophy at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA, is the author or editor of twenty-one books on religion, environmental ethics, and spirituality, including \u003ci\u003eThis Sacred Earth\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Greener Faith\u003c\/i\u003e. He has received multiple book awards and has written for both scholarly journals and venues such as \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOrion Afield\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 03, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48751900524765,"sku":"9798216372585","price":38.82,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/s33Ebq23K9798216372585.webp?v=1789890660","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/nature-spirituality-and-environmental-crisis-embracing-a-sacred-wounded-earth-paperback","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}