[p2p-research] Fwd: A Reenchanted World should arrive Wed or Thursday

[Michel Bauwens]

Regarding the book:

*Book: A Reenchanted World: The Quest For A New Kinship With Nature by James
William Gibson.

Details at http://p2pfoundation.net/Quest_For_A_New_Kinship_With_Nature
*
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From: jwilliamgibson <jwilliamgibson at ca.rr.com>
Date: Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 5:39 AM
Subject: A Reenchanted World should arrive Wed or Thursday
To: Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>


 Hi Michel,

My book should arrive Wed or Thursday.

Here's why I think it's important for P2P:

1, The culture of enchantment creates symbolic, totemic kinship ties with
wild animals. It does not erases human-animal differences, but clearly links
them in human-animal kinship ties.

2. Consecrating land--restoring enchantment or sacredness to lands and
waters--is a collective act. Consecration changes the public meaning of
places. It helps create commons.

3. Both the political/economic right and the fundamentalist right tried to
destroy this culture and the enviro movement during the Bush administration.
They failed. The evangelicals split. Using sacred in a broad sense of the
term, most of Christianity and Judaism embraces some form of sacred earth
theology--even if they don't stress it.

4. Ordinary people fight for animals and places. It's not a top-down
movement.

I will be touch.

Bill



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