RT Article
T1 The (Religious) Naturalist's Eye: An Introduction to ‘Aldo Leopold: Ethical and Spiritual Dimensions’
JF Journal for the study of religion, nature and culture
VO 5
IS 4
SP 397
OP 409
A1 Van Horn, Gavin
LA English
YR 2011
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1837008159
AB Aldo Leopold is remembered as a consummate nature writer, a scientist with a philosophical bent, a naturalist informed deeply by his ecological ?eldwork, and as an active citizen and conservationist committed to bringing private and public land management into concord. While many of his contemporaries have faded into obscurity, Leopold’s work continues to inspire scholars and conservation practitioners to think of social and ecological systems as necessarily integrated. The authors in this special issue probe why this is so by focusing on the ethical, religious, and spiritual roots and branches of Leopold’s environmental philosophy and his understandings of land health. I suggest that Leopold’s work continues to endure, and receive growing scholarly and popular attention, because he subtly traversed the realm of metaphysics in his writing, creating a challenging dialogue between the sciences and the humanities.
K1 Aldo Leopold
K1 Natural History
K1 nature as sacred
K1 religious naturalism
K1 scientific metaphysics
DO 10.1558/jsrnc.v5i4.397