City of the Good: Nature, Religion, and the Ancient Search for What Is Right

by Michael Mayerfield Bell

Book Overview

How we came to seek absolute good in religion and nature--and why that quest often leads us astray

People have long looked to nature and the divine as paths to the good. In this panoramic meditation on the harmonious life, Michael Mayerfeld Bell traces how these two paths came to be seen as separate from human ways, and how many of today's conflicts can be traced back thousands of years to this ancient divide.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691165092
• ISBN13: 9780691165097
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.3"