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On the blue—and green—religion of Avatar
Let’s get the negatives out of the way first. The movie pits good against evil in a tired old storyline that has less subtlety than a spaghetti western. The postcolonial spin on the tale is that here the indigenous people … Continue reading
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Tagged animism, dark green religion, nature religion, pantheism
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Paradigms, idols, and the mind in matter
Following Karen Armstrong’s remarks on idols, I’ve been thinking about idolatry in relation to our view of nature. We are wedded to the view that nature lacks mind–to the extent that alternatives to this view, from pantheism to animism, are … Continue reading
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Tagged animism, attitudes toward nature, Descartes, Karen Armstrong, panpsychism, pantheism, philosophy of mind
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