University of Manitoba - Clayton Riddell Faculty of Environment, Earth, and Resources

Clayton H. Riddell Faculty of Environment, Earth, and Resources

Facets of the Sacred


Editors: Rick Riewe, Jill Oakes
		Overview
		Since time immemorial human being have attached sacred meaning to many aspects of human existence. This collection of works examines various facets of this meaning through examination of different beliefs, celebrations, traditions and places of spiritual significance found throughout the glove. Human relationships with sacred landscapes, sacred regions in conflict and the sacred nature of everyday activities, such as eating are explored in the contexts of (but not exclusive to) Canadian Aboriginal peoples, Indigenous Hawaiian peoples, the Sámi of Scandinavia and the three Abrahamic faiths. As Joy MacLean eloquently states in her chapter “Locating the Sacred”, it is hoped that “…through research such as this it is possible to create ‘common ground’ – to increase the area in which our cross-cultural understanding overlap and can be shared”

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		88 pages; Price $20.00

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