Christopher Key Chapple

Gebundenes Buch

Embodied Ecology

Yoga and the Environment

Herausgeber: The Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies

Beschreibung

"This book explores how primary sources from the Hindu and Yoga traditions can inform contemporary conversations about the problems of environmental degradation both in India and from a global perspective. This author seeks to discern how Hindu and Yoga ideals can address the pressing problems of global consumerism, the proliferation of plastic waste, species extinctions, and global climate change"--

Autor

Christopher Key Chapple is Doshi Professor of Indic and Comparative Theology and founding director of the Master of Arts in Yoga Studies at Loyola Marymount University. He has published more than twenty books, including Karma and Creativity; Nonviolence to Animals, Earth, and Self in Asian Traditions; Yoga and the Luminous; and Living Landscapes: Meditations on the Elements in Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain Yogas. Chapple serves on the advisory boards for the Forum on Religion and Ecology (Yale), the Jaina Studies Centre (SOAS, London), the Dharma Academy of North America (Berkeley), the South Asian Studies Association (Los Angeles), and the International School for Jain Studies (Pune).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Mandala Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 155mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 842g
• ISBN-13: 9798887621159
• Artikelnr.: 71745343