Sacred Earth by Arthur Versluis

This eye-opening journey through the terrain of Indigenous people's spirituality contrasts contemporary society's rejection of the sacred--and its arrogant belief in its own power to control the cosmos--with indigenous traditions of reverence for the earth.

The author reconstructs the archetypal and symbolic significance of indigenous rituals and sacred sites, placing Indigenous spirituality in the context of the world's great religions. The comparison illustrates the richness and universality of the indigenous approach to the earth as a cherished being and reveals the poverty of our present-day attitudes toward the natural environment and its living creatures. This book is an urgent call to rediscover and become firmly grounded on the sacred earth again.