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Availability:In StockContributor:Bron Taylor (Editor)Series:Environmental Humanities #8Publish date:2013-08-14Pages:378
Language:EnglishPublisher:Wilfrid Laurier University PressISBN-13:9781554588435ISBN-10:155458843XUPC:9781554588435Book Category:Performing Arts, NatureBook Subcategory:Film, EssaysBook Topic:History & CriticismSize:8.90 x 5.90 x 0.90 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SC584ZK87D

Avatar and Nature Spirituality explores the cultural and religious significance of James Cameron's film Avatar (2010), one of the most commercially successful motion pictures of all time.

Its success was due in no small measure to the beauty of the Pandora landscape and the dramatic, heart-wrenching plight of its nature-venerating inhabitants. To some audience members, the film was inspirational, leading them to express affinity with the film's message of ecological interdependence and animistic spirituality. Some were moved to support the efforts of indigenous peoples, who were metaphorically and sympathetically depicted in the film, to protect their cultures and environments. To others, the film was politically, ethically, or spiritually dangerous. Indeed, the global reception to the film was intense, contested, and often confusing.


To illuminate the film and its reception, this book draws on an interdisciplinary team of scholars, experts in indigenous traditions, religious studies, anthropology, literature and film, and post-colonial studies. Readers will learn about the cultural and religious trends that gave rise to the film and the reasons these trends are feared, resisted, and criticized, enabling them to wrestle with their own views, not only about the film but about the controversy surrounding it. Like the film itself, Avatar and Nature Spirituality provides an opportunity for considering afresh the ongoing struggle to determine how we should live on our home planet, and what sorts of political, economic, and spiritual values and practices would best guide us.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Wilfrid Laurier University PressISBN-13:9781554588435ISBN-10:155458843XUPC:9781554588435Book Category:Performing Arts, NatureBook Subcategory:Film, EssaysBook Topic:History & CriticismSize:8.90 x 5.90 x 0.90 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SC584ZK87D
Taylor, Bron: - Bron Taylor is a professor at the University of Florida and a fellow of the Rachel Carson Center in Munich. His books include Dark Green Religion: Nature Spirituality and the Planetary Future (2010), and he is the editor of the award-winning Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature (2005) and the Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture. His website is www.brontaylor.com.
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press

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