Review of Philip P. Arnold and Ann Grodzins Gold (eds), Sacred Landscapes and Cultural Politics: Planting a Tree By Carole Cusack

https://www.academia.edu/145829345/Review_of_Philip_P_Arnold_and_Ann_Grodzins_Gold_eds_Sacred_Landscapes_and_Cultural_Politics_Planting_a_Tree?email_work_card=title This volume grew out of a symposium, 'Religion/Environment/ Action: Conceptions and Connections,' which was held in 1996 to celebrate the centenary of the Department of Religion at Syracuse University. This symposium featured a tree planting ceremony conducted by Chief Jake Swamp, who was born on the Akwesasne Mohawk reservation in upstate New York, and is the founder of the Tree of Peace Society. The volume is an attempt to mesh together contemporary ritual, indigenous worldviews, academic papers and less academic environmental activist writings. As such, it is a very mixed bag indeed. ...