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Christopher Key Chapple is Doshi Professor of Indic and Comparative Theology and founding director of the Master of Arts in Yoga Studies at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. A specialist in the religions of India, he has published more than twenty books, including the recent Living Landscapes: Meditations on the Five Elements in Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain Yogas (SUNY Press, 2020). He serves as advisor to multiple organizations including: the Forum on Religion and Ecology (Yale); the Ahimsa Center (Pomona); the Dharma Academy of North America (Berkeley); the Jain Studies Centre (SOAS, London); the South Asian Studies Association; and International School for Jain Studies (New Delhi). He teaches online through the Center for Religion and Spirituality (LMU) and YogaGlo. Recent book: http: //www.sunypress.edu/p-6860-
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Review Quotes: The humanities have witnessed an invigorating influx of new (or, perhaps, old) modes of immanent thought. These new/old varieties of vitalism, materialism, and animism challenge transcendent, dualistic perspectives that reduce matter to inert, lifeless stuff and locate supreme value in realms beyond our earthly home. Earthly Things presents a persuasive genealogy of these intriguing "isms," effectively interweaving them with emerging scholarship in religion and ecology. The essays issue a delightfully varied but cohesive call for planetary sensibilities--immanent religiosities--that bind humans to our nonhuman kin and ground us once more in the living earth.---Lisa H. Sideris, Professor of Environmental Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara