Publisher's Synopsis
This is a text which explores ideas about man and nature in Taosim, Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity and Islam, particularly its Sufi dimension.;The author analyzes the spiritual crisis of the 20th century as manifest in the ecological crisis and stresses the importance of a greater awareness of the origins of nature and of man.;"Man and Nature" investigates the problems posed for peace, and human life itself, by the various applications of modern science. It explores the intellectual and historical causes of the current ecological crisis and in the search for a new approach turns to the views of nature held by various religious and spiritual traditions.