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	Earth and Religion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		She began making television documentaries on religion that were award-winning but highly controversial, and TV executives pulled the plug on her broadcasting career.
		Like cooking, it can be disgusting.” Bad religion, she says, is the suffocation of the sacred by dogma, by man-made rules, by the arrogant idolatry of investing human values in an ineffable deity.
		Good religion is the embrace of compassion and confrontation with the “other,” which are the matrix teachings of all the great spiritual movements.
	www.earthandreligion.org /index.shtml?thepage=articles (5172 words)

	"Hail Earth That Givest to All ..." (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Note that the Northern religion also featured a number of other beliefs not mentioned here - the purpose of this essay is only to discuss those ideas which seem common to all and to provide some evidence that they were characteristic of the North as well.
		Religion and magic may inspire and empower the individual, but their purpose is to serve the community.
		To those who follow an Earth Religion, what happens "above," in the spiritual world, is reflected by and connected to what happens "below." It is both possible and natural to make contact with one and the other.
	vinland.org /heathen/mt/earth.html (2114 words)

	About the Covenant of the Goddess (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		a religion whose main tenet is that the worshipper is in harmony with the Earth and with all life.
		Wicca, or Witchcraft, is an earth religion -- a re-linking (re-ligio) with the life-force of nature, both on this planet and in the stars and space beyond.
		Our religion is not a series of precepts or beliefs, rather we believe that we each have within ourselves the capacity to reach out and experience the mystery -- that feeling of ineffable oneness with all Life.
	www.cog.org /general/iabout.html (3623 words)

	An "Earth" Religion?
		The followers of today's Earth religions still hold a special reverence for Mother Earth, but often do not have that same personal contact with Her that their ancestors felt.
		Where the Earth was once our Mother, a member of our immediate family, perhaps to some She is now more like a distant cousin.
		Earth is but one of several planets orbiting a single star.
	www.wicca.utvinternet.com /earth1.htm (950 words)

	FACTION EARTH: Religion in a New World
		The core religion in this game is the belief in ancient Egyptian religions, uncovered from the pyramids years ago which shed enlightenment on the world.
		The religion and god you choose to follow is partly based on political alignment as well as your trade affiliation as some gods are better suited to different character skills.
		All history that was accepted with regards to civilization and religion ceased to hold water.
	www.factionearth.com /religion.shtml (904 words)

	Earth First! - Earth Liberation Front - Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		At the grassroots, within radical environmental groups, various deep ecology spiritualities were digested into a widely held and expressed conviction: All life has value, apart from its usefulness to human beings (or put differently, all life is sacred) and thus, all organisms ought to be allowed to continue their evolutionary unfolding.
		In addition to deep ecological spirituality, in the early years of Earth First!, Foreman promoted anarchistic ideals and suggested that humans should return to their tribal roots (and thus to tribal ritualizing and a warrior ethos of earth defense).
		Although he insisted humans must “resacralize” their perceptions of nature (viewing this as an antidote to western civilization’s irreverent behavior toward it) Foreman was uncomfortable with the countercultural style and the increasing pagan ritualizing in the movement.
	www.religionandnature.com /bron/enc-ef.htm (1536 words)

	FORE: Religion-Christianity-Bibliography
		Religion in an Age of Science, 2 vols (San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1990–1991).
		The Earth Is the Lord’s: Essays on Stewardship.
		The Earth Is the Lord’s: Christians and the Environment.
	environment.harvard.edu /religion/religion/christianity/bibliography.html (4544 words)

	Everything Environmentalism:Environmentalism Religion
		Environmentalism, like all religions, can be seen superficially by the gullible believers as ‘doing good’, but when one digs deeper than the seemingly noble ideals we see fervent belief and when it becomes dogma, policy and practice, it causes untold human suffering, hardship, illness and hunger for hundreds of millions of humans.
		So entrenched is the religion of Environmentalism that it is now taught to children in schools to an extent that few other religions have managed, and as such, its ubiquitous and debilitating effects are both widespread and deep-set.
		Indeed, a primary meaning of the word "religion" is an institutionalized system of beliefs and practices, and some scholars argue that it is the social aspects of religion—its concern with ritual, morality, and community—that distinguishes it from the more solitary discipline of philosophy.
	www.siql.com /environmentalism/environmentalism_religion.htm (3157 words)

	Earth religion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Earth religion is a New Age term used mostly by believers in neo-paganism and similar faiths.
		It is an umbrella phrase that is used to cover any religion that worships the Earth, Nature, or fertility gods, such as the various forms of goddess worship.
		Some find a connection between Earth-worship and the Gaia theory.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Earth_religion (101 words)

	PANTHEISM: the World Pantheist Movement
		They also include philosophical Taoism, modern Stoicism, Gaian religion, as well as to those forms of wicca and paganism that see magic and the gods as symbols rather than realities, also Western forms of Buddhism that celebrate nature and everyday life, and to those in Unitarian Universalism who do not believe in supernatural beings.
		Our ethics are humanistic and green, our metaphysics naturalist and scientific, but to these we add the emotional and aesthetic dimensions which humans need to joyfully embrace their place in the universe and to motivate their concern for nature and human welfare.
		However, this does not mean we believe that science can answer all questions, nor that we endorse all modern technologies regardless of their impact on nature.
	www.pantheism.net (1234 words)

	Religion and Earth Ethics Syllabus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Callicott, J. Earth's Insights: A Survey of Ecological Ethics From the Mediterranean Basin to the Australian Outback.
		religion has taken diverse forms that nevertheless promote three broad impulses:(1) the mastery of nature; (2) indifference to nature; and (3) harmonization within nature.
		wide variety of views about religion and ecology, offering various diagnoses regarding the role that religion has played in environmental deterioration and prescriptions for reforming (or re-invigorating or rejecting) religion as a means toward environmental sustainability.
	www.religionandnature.com /bron/rs-362.htm (2293 words)

	Moist Mother Earth - Slavic Myth and Religion
		Calm the moving sands and whirlwinds." Turn North and say: "Moist Mother Earth, calm the north winds and the clouds, subdue the snowstorms and the cold." Oil is poured out after each invocation, and finally, the jar is thrown to the ground.
		He is as fl as the earth, with hair of grass, and he dresses in white.
		At the solstice, the house and hearth represent the sky, the yard is the earth, and beyond the yard is the underworld.
	www.winterscapes.com /slavic.htm (5683 words)

	Earth-Religion and the Troth of the North
		A basic concept seems to be the idea that all paths and theologies have some validity (although it may be limited to a family a village, etc.), and no individual or group has the right to impose their religion on others.
		All societies that live close to the earth recognize that birth and death, creation and destruction, are part of the natural cycle of existence.
		To those who follow an Earth Religion, what happens "above", in the spiritual world is reflected by and connected to what happens "below", it is both possible and natural to make contact between one and the other.
	www.hrafnar.org /norse/hail-earth.html (2190 words)

	Earth Religion Rights Organizations
		The Earth Religions Assistance List is dedicated to investigating and providing assistance to Earth Religionists facing legal problems associated with their religion.
		ERAL is kind of a "911" assistance hotline/list for Earth Religion rights activists and organizations that provides research, and information to individuals and organizations assisting Earth Religionists and their Attorneys.
		Earth Spirit Pagans (ESP) is a nonprofit religious and cultural organization based in Colorado Springs, CO. We were founded in 1992, are incorporated in the State of Colorado, and have our federal tax-exempt status (501,c,3).
	members.aol.com /lcorncalen/erro.htm (4132 words)

	Whole Earth: This Sacred Earth: Religion, Nature, Environment
		Who would have thought that more than twenty-five years after the first Earth Day catapulted ecological concern into so many areas of American life the case would still need to be made that our religious traditions have an inherent moral obligation to participate in protecting "the creation," the natural world?
		Drawing not only on the Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) but also Buddhism, Taoism, native peoples' spiritual teachings, neo-Paganism, and spiritual ecofeminism, Gottlieb gathers testimony of ecological teachings in traditional religious texts, contemporary ecotheology, green liturgy, and ecosocial activism.
		It is time to focus attention not only on declarations of general principles, but also on political efforts to change governmental policy.
	www.wholeearthmag.com /ArticleBin/154.html (230 words)

	Link's Lessons - An Earth Religion?
		Earth’s many cultures each have a flavor all their own.
		Perhaps culture comes in part from energies unique to that specific patch of Earth (under which our Stones were born too).
		Formed over many millennia beneath the Earth, your precious gem (including the 99 cent rock from the mall) is by far the oldest thing in your home.
	www.twpt.com /stonesarepeople.htm (1473 words)

	Star Trek
		This was a failed attempt lasting only 3 years, after which the Nielson ratings, a primitive form of seeing how popular a TV show is, dropped to unacceptable levels.
		This was an attempt made in the late '70s to recruit young people to this religion as a Saturday morning cartoon show.
		This was based on a space station, with more violence, which, on Earth at the time, was one of the most successful ways of getting money.
	www.galactic-guide.com /articles/2S23.html (361 words)

	Crank Dot Net \| religion
		Mother Earth is quaking, burning, flooding and erupting under human conquering motive and corruption.
		Religion means helping the people develop their religiousness along universal moral standards of ethics built on own moral conscience, not on the long-past authoritarian moral of God, a group, or state.
		The word: 'earth' is found in Shakespeare and in the King James translation of the Bible in 1611.
	www.crank.net /religion.html (11182 words)

	Earth & Religion - ReaderRant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Gaians perceive the Earth as a living, breathing being, perceive the creatures, (including humans) the rivers, oceans, mountains, forests, prairies as part of that being.
		Earth is an insensate, reactive "ecosystem", and as such the misguided efforts of man to destroy it are pitifully incapable of it.
		Most enviros treat the earth as if she is a wimp of the first order, that needs us humans (who are much wimpier in comparison) to "protect" her.
	www.capitolhillblue.com /ubb/Forum7/HTML/000374.html (7624 words)

	Earth religion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Nightpath is an eclectic blend of earth religion and sky science (astronomy).
		Earth Religions Assistance Index of resources for practitioners of Earth religions who are religious freedom for those of Earth based religions.
		It is a life-affirming Earth religion which is both old and new, "traditional," and vibrantly creative.
	aliveinfo.com /?q=earth-religion (980 words)

	God's Green Earth: Religion and Ecology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Entitled God's Green Earth: Religion and Ecology the program is an exploration of the growing religion and ecology movement inspired by the ideas of Thomas Berry.
		The Canadian Forum on Religion and Ecology is a not-for-profit research, education and advocacy organization founded in 2004 by five Canadian academics.
		CFORE gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the Harvard Forum on Religion and Ecology, Queen's Theological College, the Elliott Allen Institute for Theology and Ecology, the Ecology Project, the Canadian Coalition on Ethics, Ecology and Religion, Saint Paul University, the United Church of Canada Energy and Environment Program and other generous individual and institutional donors.
	rels.queensu.ca /cfore/news.tapestry.php (287 words)

	Buy.com - Earth-Based (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
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	www.buy.com /cat/Earth_Based/2295.html (595 words)

	SACRED EARTH ALLIANCE HOMEPAGE -- A CALL TO ACTION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		If you are an Earth Religion Rights activist and the information in the directory about you is inaccurate, incomplete or missing, please send excactly how you would like to be listed to Larry Cornett at lcorncalen@aol.com.
		Those contacts who are not public but who fill out and submit the questionnaire indicating that certain nformation can be shared with Religions Rights activists only will eventually have this information listed in a private version of the directory to be made available to activists only, by officers of Earth Religion Rights organizations.
		Assuming you also provide public contact information, the other information on the form (that is not so sensitive) will be included in the public version of the directory and the yellow pages, so that those individuals needing help can contact you directly and will know what type of help you may be able to provide.
	members.aol.com /lcorncalen/SEAHomepage.htm (1896 words)

	Multifaith and Religion Sites List (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		United Religion's mission is to provide the world's religions with a conspicuous, permanent center where prayer and dialogue among the world's religions have the potential of resulting in a worldwide moral resolve in both word and action.
		A "non-creedal" religion that believe that personal experience, conscience and reason should be the final authorities in religion, and that in the end religious authority lies not in a book or person or institution, but in ourselves.
		It is a point of convergence and fulfillment of the aspirations of all the religions of the world, each of whom foreshadowed aspects of the next stage of human evolution.
	www.conjure.com /religion.html (7027 words)

	Link's Lessons - An Earth Religion?
		A band of Aborigines in the South Pacific, or perhaps a Coven of modern-day urban Pagans?
		Earth worshipers often hold special reverence for natural settings, the woods, the beach, the mountains.
		Not only can Earth worshipers narrow their focus to recognize ordinary things, but we can also widen it too.
	www.twpt.com /earthreligion.htm (950 words)

	Whole Earth: This Sacred Earth: Religion, Nature, Environment. - book reviews
		The first answer is that for many people religious beliefs provide primary values concerning our place in the universe, our obligations to other people and other life forms, and what makes up a truly "good" life.
		In fact, the significance of religion is heightened because several of the guiding lights of modernity have become increasingly suspect.
		Faith in science and materialist/liberal democracies has been undermined by the political violence, technological disasters and cultural bankruptcy of the late 20th century.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0GER/is_n91/ai_20115988 (489 words)

	Fellowship of the Earth- What is an Earth Religion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Here you will find a break down of some Earth Religions.
		There are so many different Earth Religions out there that are different or the same in so
		One thing we ALL have in common is the love for Mother Earth!
	www.fote.org /religion/religion.htm (58 words)

	Sacred Earth Alliance
		We now call upon our combined membership, and other Earth Religion Rights activists, to get to know each other and organize at the local and state level, get the word out on where people can find help, join in national networking with others who share your interests, and pool and share our information resources.
		Please copy the form, distribute it to other activists that you know who are not in the directory, fill it out, and send it to the address shown, so we can create improved and expanded versions of the directory.
		Those who fill out and submit the form indicating that the information is to be shared with Religions Rights activists only will be listed in a private version of the directory to be made available to activists only, by officers of national Earth Religion Rights organizations.
	www.tylwythteg.com /sea.html (1764 words)

	DIRECTORY OF PUBLIC EARTH RELIGION RIGHTS CONTACTS
		This is posted here for the use by all Wiccan/Pagan/ Earth Religion practitioners who need help in fighting religious discrimination.
		It includes a strategy for networking and organizing among Earth Religion Rights activists at a local and national level, along with referrals to pertinent resources.
		Permission is granted to distribute it, or portions of it, verbally, electronically and in hardcopy only for Earth Religion Rights networking and action, providing these purposes are made clear.
	members.aol.com /lcorncalen/directory.htm (2905 words)

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