Dark Green Religion
A Decade Later
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1558/jsrnc.34630Keywords:
Dark Green Religion, Avatar, nature spiritualityAbstract
I wrote the following remections in the hope they will encourage further research and debate about the phenomena I explored in Dark Green Religion: Nature Spiritualty and the Planetary Future. These remections are adapted from the ‘Vorwort zur deutschen Neuausgabe: Dunkelgrüne Religion—Zehn Jahre danach’, with which I introduced the German edition.
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