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The Fifth Sacred Thing

Release on 1994-06-011994-06-01 by Starhawk
The Fifth Sacred Thing

Author: Starhawk

Publisher: Bantam

ISBN: UOM:49015002036805

Category: Fiction

Page: 498

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An epic tale of freedom and slavery, love and war, and the potential futures of humankind tells of a twenty-first century California clan caught between two clashing worlds, one based on tolerance, the other on repression. Declaration of the Four Sacred Things The earth is a living, conscious being. In company with cultures of many different times and places, we name these things as sacred: air, fire, water, and earth. Whether we see them as the breath, energy, blood, and body of the Mother, or as the blessed gifts of a Creator, or as symbols of the interconnected systems that sustain life, we know that nothing can live without them. To call these things sacred is to say that they have a value beyond their usefulness for human ends, that they themselves became the standards by which our acts, our economics, our laws, and our purposes must be judged. no one has the right to appropriate them or profit from them at the expense of others. Any government that fails to protect them forfeits its legitimacy. All people, all living things, are part of the earth life, and so are sacred. No one of us stands higher or lower than any other. Only justice can assure balance: only ecological balance can sustain freedom. Only in freedom can that fifth sacred thing we call spirit flourish in its full diversity. To honor the sacred is to create conditions in which nourishment, sustenance, habitat, knowledge, freedom, and beauty can thrive. To honor the sacred is to make love possible. To this we dedicate our curiosity, our will, our courage, our silences, and our voices. To this we dedicate our lives. Praise for The Fifth Sacred Thing “This is wisdom wrapped in drama.”—Tom Hayden, California state senator “Starhawk makes the jump to fiction quite smoothly with this memorable first novel.”—Locus “Totally captivating . . . a vision of the paradigm shift that is essential for our very survival as a species on this planet.”—Elinor Gadon, author of The Once and Future Goddess “This strong debut fits well against feminist futuristic, utopic, and dystopic works by the likes of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Ursula LeGuin, and Margaret Atwood.”—Library Journal
Fiction
The Fifth Sacred Thing
Language: en
Pages: 498

The Fifth Sacred Thing

Authors: Starhawk
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 1994-06-01 - Publisher: Bantam

An epic tale of freedom and slavery, love and war, and the potential futures of humankind tells of a twenty-first century California clan caught between two clashing worlds, one based on tolerance, the other on repression. Declaration of the Four Sacred Things The earth is a living, conscious being. In
The Fifth Sacred Thing
Language: en
Pages: 496

The Fifth Sacred Thing

Authors: Starhawk
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-08-10 - Publisher: Bantam

An epic tale of freedom and slavery, love and war, and the potential futures of humankind tells of a twenty-first century California clan caught between two clashing worlds, one based on tolerance, the other on repression. Declaration of the Four Sacred Things The earth is a living, conscious being. In
City of Refuge
Language: en
Pages: 684

City of Refuge

Authors: Starhawk
Categories: Utopias
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-03-01 - Publisher:

Amidst the ruins of the violent, desperate world of 2048 stands a green and flourishing city where four things are sacred-Air, Fire, Water, and Earth. When the ruthless Stewards of the Southlands invade, the people of Califia defeat them using nonviolence and magic. But they'll be back, unless the northerners
Walking to Mercury
Language: en
Pages: 496

Walking to Mercury

Authors: Starhawk
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-11-23 - Publisher: Bantam

In The Fifth Sacred Thing, readers fell in love with Maya Greenwood, the 98-year-old writer who led Northern California's successful 21st century rebellion against a racist, totalitarian regime of the South. Walking to Mercury takes readers back to the 20th century and powerfully dramatizes the forces that shaped this extraordinary
Ecofeminist Literary Criticism
Language: en
Pages: 270

Ecofeminist Literary Criticism

Authors: Greta Claire Gaard, Patrick D. Murphy
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998 - Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Ecofeminist Literary Criticism is the first collection of its kind: a diverse anthology that explores both how ecofeminism can enrich literary criticism and how literary criticism can contribute to ecofeminist theory and activism. Ecofeminism is a practical movement for social change that discerns interconnections among all forms of oppression: the

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