Environmental Values in Christian Art

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SUNY Press - Art - 292 pages
 

Contents

1 Environmental Values in Christian Art
1
Nature in the Earliest Christian Art
9
Basilicas in Rome and Ravenna
37
4 Irish Creation from High Crosses to the Book of Kells
61
5 Urbanization and the End of Animal Sacrifice
87
A Dying Creator and the Hybridization of Hell
107
Glorious Light Green Cross
117
8 Gothic Perspectives on FeudalismUrbanization Peasants and Poverty
135
9 Gothic Naturalism Christian Dualismand Environmental Racism
161
The Virgins Meadow
177
The Creator in Rustic Landscapes
201
12 Gods Body and Blood as Bread and Wine
229
Notes
245
Index
261
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Susan Power Bratton is Professor of Environmental Studies at Baylor University and the author of Christianity, Wilderness, and Wildlife: The Original Desert Solitaire and Six Billion and More: Human Population Regulation and Christian Ethics.

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