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Engaging with the underlying question of what constitutes “nature,” this volume explores the metaphysical issues engrained in modern discourse around nature, especially in the context of the religious experience of nature.

This book explores how phenomenology and the philosophy of nature question the indirect relation of any subject or object to nature. While overcoming the dualisms of body and mind and nature and freedom derived from phenomenology, the contributors re-examine the sacred realm of nature. These perspectives draw on religious motifs such the Christian notion of life as Christ, Vedantic life as Sat, Islamic God as truth, and other concepts across traditions which connect life and nature.

The featured essays explore the intersection of the experience of nature and the phenomenology of religion, discuss the concept of wilderness as it is debated within eco-phenomenology, and explore the question of unity and difference in the context of nature. Through these essays, the volume brings together both established scholars and early career researchers and, through the diversity of such voices, contributes to research in the phenomenology of nature, metaphysics, and the philosophy of religion.

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Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors
Introduction
1. Nature in Appearance: Reasoning Phenomenologically, Felix Ó Murchadha
2. Conceiving as Experience: philosophic success and the recursiveness of nature, Lisa Landoe Hedrick
3. Phenomenology and the Sacredness of Nature, Janet Donohoe
4. Experiencing the Wildness: Phenomenological Investigations of Perceptive Immersion in Wilderness Environment, Martin Nitsche
5. Inside a Forest: Sheer Presence of Creativity or Passage to the Eternal Thou, Marion Baukrowitz
6. Living Up the Mountain: The Eco-Phenomenology of Spiritual Practices (Tibetan Tögal), Olga Louchakova-Schwartz
7. Linking Humanity with Its Animal Counterparts Through Religious/Spiritual Experience as a Finite Province of Meaning, Michael Barber
Index

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Bloomsbury Academic Test
Published Dec 24 2026
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Pages 192
ISBN 9781978771154
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Series Phenomenologies of Religious Experience
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

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Felix Ó Murchadha

Felix Ó Murchadha is Professor of Philosophy at th…

Anthology Editor

Felix Ó Murchadha

Felix Ó Murchadha is Professor of Philosophy at th…

Anthology Editor

Felix Ó Murchadha

Felix Ó Murchadha is Professor of Philosophy at th…

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Mary Shanahan

Mary Shanahan is Director of Religious Education i…

Anthology Editor

Mary Shanahan

Mary Shanahan is Director of Religious Education i…

Anthology Editor

Mary Shanahan

Mary Shanahan is Director of Religious Education i…

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