Pagan Godpell - Sara Sutterfield Winn

Culture and Ecology

It is not possible for me to separate my devotion to my spiritual tradition from my passion for a consistent radical examination of our unhealthy, dangerous, pervasive worldview, and how that worldview affects the Earth, women, people of color, the GLBTQ community, indigenous peoples, etc. In many ways, some of these books belong in the Religion list, and some books on the Religion list belong on this one. My passion for the Mama in all Her extravagant, bright and red beauty, and the Peoples that are a part of her (whether human or otherwise), is expressed in a million ways, and one of those ways is in Holy Anger at desecration and destruction committed by a worldview of isolation and greed.

Many of the following books have blasted through my bones and seduced me with their gorgeous truths, their words have become a part of my heart.

Others are simply damned good books. And there are many more out there.

In the fight between the whole Peoples of this Earth and the forces that move to turn the Living into the Dead, I ask myself always: Whose side am I on?

(Clicking on most of these titles will take you a page that will prompt you for your zip code, after which you will be immediately taken to the product page for that book on the web site of your nearest BookSense-affilitated independent bookstore! Some of these books may be difficult to order - if you cannot order them through a Booksense bookstore, check your local used book stores or other online book dealers. )

A Language Older Than Words
Derrick Jensen

The Culture of Make Believe
Derrick Jensen

Walking on Water
Derrick Jensen

Endgame, Vol 1: The Problem of Civilization
Derrick Jensen

Endgame, Vol 2: Resistance
Derrick Jensen

Listening to the Land
Derrick Jensen

My Name is Chellis and I'm in Recovery from Western Civilization
Chellis Glendinning

Ishmael
Daniel Quinn

My Ishmael
Daniel Quinn

The Story of B
Daniel Quinn

What I've Always Known
Tom Harner

The Other Within: The Genius of Deformity in Myth, Culture and Psyche
Daniel Deardorff

Sacred Land Sacred Sex: The Rapture of the Deep
Dolores LaChapelle

The Practice of the Wild
Gary Snyder

Autobiography of a Blue-Eyed Devil
Inga Muscio

Cunt: A Declaration of Independence
Inga Muscio

Feminism is for Everybody
bell hooks

Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
Audre Lorde

Pronoia is the Antidote for Paranoia
Rob Breszny

The Intimate Enemy: Loss and Recovery of Self Under Colonialism
Ashis Nandy

The Colonizer and the Colonized
Albert Memmi

Iroquoian Women: The Gantowisas
Barbara A. Mann

Re/Search #13, Angry Women
Andrea Juno

The Spell of the Sensuous
David Abram

The Lost Language of Plants
Stephen Buhner

For an Amerindian Autohistory
Georges E. Sioui

Kill the Indian, Save the Man
Ward Churchill

Simple in Means, Rich in Ends: Practicing Deep Ecology
Bill Devall

Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her
Susan Griffin

The Singing Creek Where the Willows Grow
Opal Whiteley and Benjamin Hoff

In Search of the Primitive
Stanley Diamond

Staying Alive: Women, Ecology and Development
Vandana Shiva

Christianity and Ecology: Seeking the Well-Being of Earth and Humans
(Religions of the World and Ecology Series)
(note: I recommend all books in this series)
Dieter T. Hessel, edt.

This Sacred Earth: Religion, Nature, Environment
Robert Gottlieb, edt.

EcoPsychology: Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind
Mary E. Gomes, Theodore Roszak, Allen D. Kanner, editors

Ecofeminism and the Sacred
Carol J. Adams, edt.

Reweaving the World: The Emergence of Ecofeminism
Irene Diamond, Gloria Orenstein, editors

Beyond God the Father: Towards a Philosophy of Women's Liberation
Mary Daly

Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism
Mary Daly

Websters' First New Intergalactic Wickedary of the English Language
Mary Daly, Jane Caputi

The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory
Carol J. Adams

Women and Madness
Phyllis Chesler

Listen Up: Voices from the Next Feminist Generation
Barbara Findlen, editor

Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism
Michelle Goldberg

Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
Barbara Ehrenreich

Culture Jam: How to Reverse America's Suicidal Consumer Binge
Kalle Lasn

Radical Feminism: A Documentary Reader
Barbara Crow, editor

The Eco-Foods Guide: What's Good for the Earth is Good for You
Cynthia Barstow

Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply
Vandana Shiva

Radical Ecology: The Search for a Livable World
Carolyn Merchant

Deep Ecology: Living as if Nature Mattered
Bill Devall, George Sessions

Small Wonders: Essays
Barbara Kingsolver

Deep Ecology for the 21st Century
George Sessions

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