Learning Love from a Tiger: Religious Experiences with Nature (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780520290426)

Learning Love from a Tiger explores the vibrancy and variety of humans' sacred encounters with the natural world, gathering a range of stories culled from Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Mayan, Himalayan, Buddhist, and Chinese shamanic traditions. Readers will delight in tales of house cats who teach monks how to meditate, shamans who shape-shift into jaguars, crickets who perform Catholic mass, rivers that grant salvation, and many others. In addition to being a collection of wonderful stories, this book introduces important concepts and approaches that underlie much recent work in environmental ethics, religion, and ecology. Daniel Capper's light touch prompts readers to engage their own views of humanity's place in the natural world and question longstanding assumptions of human superiority.

Author: Daniel Capper
ISBN-10: 0520290429
ISBN-13: 9780520290426
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 04/19/2016
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.80d