The Wakeful World

The Wakeful World
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Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Total Pages : 316
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ISBN-10 : 9781780994079
ISBN-13 : 1780994079
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Book Synopsis The Wakeful World by : Emma Restall Orr

Download or read book The Wakeful World written by Emma Restall Orr and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past few hundred years, animism has been dismissed as a primitive, naive and irrational perspective, relevant perhaps amongst tribal peoples but not within the intellectual arenas of the civilized West. In this book, the author argues that this is based on the misrepresentation that each tree and stone has its own immortal soul.


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