competitive alienation and domination for compassionate solidarity. In the last part of her book, Reuther traces two lines of biblical and Christian traditions. They struggled with what they perceived to be injustice and sin and sought to create just and loving relations between people in their relation to the earth and to the divine. There are glimpses in this heritage of transformative, biophilic relationships. These glimpses are a precious legacy that needs to be separated from the toxic waste of sacralized domination. Some how started to believe that the Christian male monotheistic God is destructive concept that rationalizes alienation from and neglect of the earth, while Gaia, as an immanent divinity, is seen as the all-nurturing earth mother goddess. Reuther points out that merely replacing a transcendent male deity with a female one does not answer the god-problem. These two traditions can be complementary then alternatives to each other. She sees the work of Eco-justice and the work of spirituality as interrelated, the inner and outer aspects of one process of conversion and transformation. What we need, in her view, is a vision of a much more abundant and creative source of life. A healed relation to each other and to the earth calls for a new consciousness, a new symbolic culture and spirituality. We need to transform our inner psyches and the way we symbolize the interrelations of men and women, humans and earth, humans and the divine, the divine and the earth. Part Three To save our planet the Earth and all creation must be valued, protected, and we, as human beings, must find our place within the web of all life, not outside and separate from the whole of Creation. Starhawk, in The Spiral Dance, argues that the religious concepts of the immanence of the divine in women as much as in men, as well as in animals, plants and every thing that is on the face of the Earth and in the wider cosmos is essential for saving our plane...
