{"title":"Spiritual Representations in Rural Ecovillages","authors":"Tiago Pinto","doi":"10.1558/jsrnc.25978","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/jsrnc.25978","url":null,"abstract":"Using a systematic review methodology following PRISMA guidelines, the study examines the manifestations and significance of the spiritual dimension in ecovillages over the past decade. A total of 1329 articles were screened, and 49 were ultimately included in the final analysis. The findings suggest that people represent spirituality in three distinctive ways—in relation to nature, within community settings, and through individual expressions. The outcomes suggest that spirituality plays a vital role in ecovillage communities, enhancing personal resilience and ecological motivation whilst facilitating a more profound comprehension of sustainability. Recognizing the implications of the spiritual dimension within ecovillages is crucial to advance the knowledge and promotion of sustainable and regenerative lifestyles.","PeriodicalId":503148,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture","volume":"12 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140247548","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Peyote Shrines, Remembrance, and Ritual Surrogacy in South Texas","authors":"Servando Z. Hinojosa","doi":"10.1558/jsrnc.22667","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/jsrnc.22667","url":null,"abstract":"Peyote grows in South Texas where licensed dealers acquire it and sell it to Native American Church members. These dealers also create and maintain special shrines on their property for the visiting buyers. The shrines not only mark a portal of entry into the region but also comprise the only opportunity many Native Americans will have to see peyote growing in the ground. Prompting prayers and conversations about ‘relations’ back home, the shrines kindle many acts of remembrance, both between generations of visitors and between Native Americans and dealers. Moreover, the ways that Native Americans perform actions at the shrines that tie into rituals of thanks, gathering, and healing associated with other places underscores the shrines’ surrogate ritual importance. This matters for visitors who cannot access other ritual sites. By anchoring memories and challenging conventional thinking about agency, peyote shrines activate thinking about kindred while extending the ritualists’ reach into adjacent spaces. ","PeriodicalId":503148,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140245733","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mother Earth, Cultural Authenticity, and Canadian Law","authors":"Matthew Glass","doi":"10.1558/jsrnc.23942","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/jsrnc.23942","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p>.</jats:p>","PeriodicalId":503148,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture","volume":"2020 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140246010","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Comments on Responses to ‘What is Mother Earth?’","authors":"Sam Gill","doi":"10.1558/jsrnc.27454","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/jsrnc.27454","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p>.</jats:p>","PeriodicalId":503148,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture","volume":"366 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140247055","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reinterpreting Mother Earth","authors":"Bjørn Ola Tafjord","doi":"10.1558/jsrnc.24346","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/jsrnc.24346","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p>.</jats:p>","PeriodicalId":503148,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture","volume":"2004 22","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140246487","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On Mother Earth","authors":"Bron Taylor","doi":"10.1558/jsrnc.28090","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/jsrnc.28090","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p>.</jats:p>","PeriodicalId":503148,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture","volume":"5 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140247484","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Following the Storytracks","authors":"Greg Johnson","doi":"10.1558/jsrnc.25257","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/jsrnc.25257","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p>.</jats:p>","PeriodicalId":503148,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture","volume":"685 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140246700","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Brianne Donaldson and Ana Bajželj, Insistent Life: Principles for Bioethics in the Jain Tradition","authors":"Christopher Chapple","doi":"10.1558/jsrnc.27090","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/jsrnc.27090","url":null,"abstract":"Brianne Donaldson and Ana Bajželj, Insistent Life: Principles for Bioethics in the Jain Tradition (Oakland: University of California Press, 2021), 294 pp., $34.99 (pbk), ISBN: 9780520380561.","PeriodicalId":503148,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture","volume":"9 19","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140258015","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Marjorie Swann, Environment, Society, and The Compleat Angler","authors":"K. H. Lokensgard","doi":"10.1558/jsrnc.27241","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/jsrnc.27241","url":null,"abstract":"Marjorie Swann, Environment, Society, and The Compleat Angler (University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2023), 270 pp., $124.95 (cloth), ISBN: 978-0-271-09519-6.","PeriodicalId":503148,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture","volume":"73 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140078055","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Matthew Schneider-Mayerson, Alexa Weik von Mossner, W. P. Malecki, and Frank Hakemulder (eds.), Empirical Ecocriticism: Environmental Narratives for Social Change","authors":"I. Abolfotoh","doi":"10.1558/jsrnc.27302","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/jsrnc.27302","url":null,"abstract":"Matthew Schneider-Mayerson, Alexa Weik von Mossner, W. P. Malecki, and Frank Hakemulder (eds.), Empirical Ecocriticism: Environmental Narratives for Social Change (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2023), 368 pp., $30 (pbk), ISBN: 9781517915353.","PeriodicalId":503148,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture","volume":"35 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140259529","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}