Another Worldview Is Possible: Grassroots Social Movements and the ‘Great Work’
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1558/jsrnc.31758Keywords:
Worldview, spirituality, cosmovisions, social movements, Thomas Berry, New Story, Great Work, sustainable development, nature religion, World Social Forums, globalizationAbstract
Observers such as Thomas Berry and David Korten have proposed that the contemporary 'Great Work' is to tell new stories, embodied in practical new politics and economics, to navigate the deep cultural and institutional transformations necessary for human communities to survive and
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Berry, Thomas. 1978. The New Story (Woodbridge: Teilhard Studies Monograph Series)
Berry, Thomas. 1988. Dream of the Earth (San Francisco: Sierra Club).
Berry, Thomas. 1999. The Great Work (New York: Three Rivers Press).
Berry, Thomas. 2006. Evening Thoughts (Berkeley: Counterpoint).
Boff, Leonardo. 1997. Cry of the Earth, Cry of the Poor (Maryknoll: Orbis Books).
Boff, Leonardo. 2003. Ética & eco-espiritualidade (Campinas: Verus Editora).
Boff, Leonardo. 2009. The Tao of Liberation: Exploring the Ecology of Transformation (Maryknoll: Orbis).
Capra, Fritjof. 1983. The Turning Point: Science, Society, and the Rising Culture (New York: Bantam).
Capra, Fritjof. 2016. The Systems View of Life (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
Clarke, Ben, and Clifton Ross 2000. Voices of Fire: Communiques and Interviews from the Zapatista National Liberation Army (San Francisco: Freedom Voices).
Demerath, Nicolas Jay III, and Terry Schmitt. 1998. ‘Transcending Sacred and Secular: Mutual Bene?ts in Analyzing Religious and Nonreligious Organization’, in Nicolas Jay Demerath III et al. (eds.), Sacred Companies: Organizational Aspects of Religion and Religious Aspects of Organizations (New York: Oxford University Press): 381-400.
Dinerstein, Ana Cecilia. 2007. ‘Workers’ Factory Takeovers and New State Policies in Argentina: Towards an “Institutionalisation” of Non-Governmental Public Action’, Policy & Politics 35.3: 529-50. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1332/030557307781571641.
Escobar, Arturo. 2000. ‘Beyond the Search for a Paradigm? Post-development and Beyond’, Development 43.4: 11-14. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.development.1110188.
Escobar, Arturo. 2011. Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World (Princeton: Princeton University Press).
Fuchs, Christian. 2004. ‘The Question of Culture’, in Ananta Giri (ed.), Creative Social Research (New York: Lexington Books): 37-56.
Gnanadason, Aruna. 2001. ‘Response to the Great Work of Thomas Berry’, Worldviews 5.2/3: 175-87. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/15685350152908246.
Guha, Ramachandra. 1995. ‘Mahatma Gandhi and the Environmental Movement in India’, Capitalism Nature Socialism 6.3: 47-61. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/10455759509358641.
Hathaway, Mark, and Leonardo Boff. 2009. The Tao of Liberation: Exploring the Ecology of Transformation (Maryknoll: Orbis Books).
Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierrette, Genelle Gaudinez, Hector Lara, and Billy Ortiz. 2004. ‘“There’s a Spirit That Transcends the Border”: Faith, Ritual, and Postnational Protest at the US-Mexico Border’, Sociological Perspectives 47.2: 133-59. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/sop.2004.47.2.133.
Ivakhiv, Adrian. 2015. ‘New Wine into Old Bottles? Or Time to Jettison the Bottle?’, Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture 9.2: 181-84. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1558/jsrnc.v9i2.27283.
Issa, Danielle. 2007. ‘Praxis of Empowerment Mística and Mobilization in Brazil’s Landless Rural Workers’ Movement’, Latin American Perspectives 34.2: 124-38. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/0094582X06298745.
Klein, Naomi. 2014. This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. The Climate (New York: Simon & Schuster).
Korten, David. 2014. ‘A New Story for a New Economy’, Yes! Magazine. Online: http://www.yesmagazine.org/happiness/a-new-story-for-a-new-economy.
Küng, Hans. 1988. Theology for the Third Millennium: An Ecumenical View (New York: Doubleday Books).
Lockyer, Joshua, and James Veteto. 2013. ‘Environmental Anthropology Engaging Ecotopia’, in Joshua Lockyer and James Veteto (eds.), Environmental Anthropology Engaging Ecotopia: Bioregionalism, Permaculture, and Ecovillages (New York: Berghahn): 1-34.
Marcos, Suncomandante. 2002. Our Word Is Our Weapon: Selected Writings (New York: Seven Stories Press).
McMichael, Philip. 2011. Development and Social Change (New York: Sage).
Merchant, Carolyn. 1980. The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology and Scienti?c Revolution (New York: Harper Collins).
Peet, Richard, and Elaine Hartwick. 2009. Theories of Development: Contentions, Arguments, Alternatives (New York: Guilford Press).
Queiroz, Mario de. 2005. ‘Original Venue, New and Improved Methodology for Giant Meet’, Inter Press Service, 27 January. Online: www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0127-10.htm.
Rahnema, Majid. 2010. ‘Participation’, in W. Sachs (ed.), The Development Dictionary (New York: Zed Books, 2nd edn): 127-44.
Rue, Loyal. 2000. Everybody’s Story: Wising Up to the Epic of Evolution (Albany: SUNY Press).
Ruether, Rosemary. 2001. ‘Response to Thomas Berry’s “The Great Work”’, Worldviews 5.2/3: 170-74. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/15685350152908237.
Santos, Boaventura De Sousa. 2005. ‘Beyond Neoliberal Governance: The World Social Forum as Subaltern Cosmopolitan Politics and Legality’, in B. Santos and C. Rodriguez-Garavito (eds.), Law and Globalization from Below: Towards a Cosmopolitan Legality (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press): 29-63. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511494093.002.
Santos and C. Rodriguez-Garavito (eds.), 2013. Rise of the Global Left (New York: Zed Books).
Sideris, Lisa. 2013. ‘Science as Sacred Myth? Ecospirituality in the Anthropocene Age’, in R. Rozzi, J. Baird Callicott, Clare Palmer, and Juan Armesto (eds.), Linking Ecology and Ethics for a Changing World: Values, Philosophy, and Action (Dordrecht: Springer): 147-62.
Shapin, Steven. 1996. The Scienti?c Revolution (Chicago: University of Chicago Press). Doi: https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226750224.001.0001.
Shiva, Vandana. 1988. Staying Alive: Women, Ecology and Development (London: Zed Books).
Smith, Jackie, Marina Karides, Marc Becker, Dorval Brunelle, Christopher Chase-Dunn, and Donnatello Della Porto (eds.). 2007. Global Democracy and the World Social Forum (Boulder: Paradigm Press).
Swimme, Brian, and Thomas Berry. 1992. The Universe Story from the Primordial Flaring Forth to the Ecozoic Era: A Celebration of the Unfolding of the Cosmos (New York: HarperCollins).
Swimme, Brian, and Mary Evelyn Tucker. 2011. Journey of the Universe (New Haven: Yale University Press).
Taylor, Bron (ed.). 1995. Ecological Resistance Movements: The Global Emergence of Radical and Popular Environmentalism (Albany: State University of New York Press).
Taylor, Bron. 2010. Dark Green Religion: Nature Spirituality and the Planetary Future (Berkeley: University of California Press). Doi: https://doi.org/10.1558/jsrnc.v9i2.27288.
Tucker, Mary Evelyn. 2015. ‘Journey of the Universe: An Integration of Science and Humanities’, Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture 9.2: 206-12.
Whitaker, Chico. 2005. O Desa?o do Fórum Social Mundial (São Paulo: Editora Fundação Perseu Abramo).
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2018-10-02
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Hernandez, A. (2018). Another Worldview Is Possible: Grassroots Social Movements and the ‘Great Work’. Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, 12(2), 147-171. https://doi.org/10.1558/jsrnc.31758
