Paper #2 due on The Sacredness of Nature: The Example of the Earth Spirit and/or

Paper #2 due on The Sacredness of Nature: The Example of the Earth Spirit and/or Feng Shui. 3 – 4 pages Write an essay addressing ONE of the prompts below, and indicate the number of your choice. Include at least two direct quotes from the readings — Eliade (Ch. 3), Mitchell (CP 1-23) and/or Rossbach (CP 24-35). Remember to use MLA format for in-text citations and Works Cited. See “About Written Work” and “Sample MLA Format” at the end of this syllabus for further specifications. Prompt #1: What is meant by “the earth spirit” (Mitchell CP 4)? How did religious man recognize its presence, both by seeking to get close to it and by staying out of its path? What allows the earth spirit to flourish (thus allowing humans to flourish)? What causes the earth spirit to weaken, to move to another place of hierophany, or even to die (Mitchell CP 18-23)? Give examples. Prompt #2: What does Eliade mean by “the sacredness of nature”? Why does he say that it is transparent? What does he mean when he says that “for religious man the supernatural is indissolubly connected with the natural, that nature always expresses something that transcends it” (Eliade 117-18) ? In terms of nature, how does the worldview of religious man differ from that of nonreligious/profane man? Prompt #3: Why did Edward Carpenter, in 1889, declare that civilization was “a kind of disease,” and for what reasons did the Socialists of the Fabian Society criticize him (Mitchell CP 6)? How does the Taoist tradition of feng shui offer a solution to Carpenter’s concern? That is, how does feng shui foster a conscious, harmonious relationship between man and nature? (See Eliade 152; Mitchell CP 12-19; Rossback CP 24-35).

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