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Shattering
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Marcie S Jones
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Leonardo da Vinci, Milan's Renaissance ideal, is tasked with
painting The Last Supper but struggles to find the perfect person
to model as Christ. Vittorio Dessa, a young farmer, is eventually
spotted, plucked from farm life and placed at the heart of an alien
world of art and science, aristocracy, politics and intrigue.
Initially shocked, Vittorio gradually adjusts to the artist's
exuberant manner and ambitious ideas, and after some hesitation,
resolves to pursue his own ambitions and venture beyond the safety
of the city walls. Thus encouraged, Vittorio's fortunes boom, but
ill-equipped to deal with the transformation, his life slowly
lapses into one of paranoia, jealousy and eventually murder. The
strands of the story climax at Leonardo's very public reveal of The
Last Supper painting.
American environmentalism historically has been associated with the
interests of white elites. Yet religious leaders in the
twenty-first century have helped instill concern about the earth
among groups diverse in religion, race, ethnicity, and class. How
did that happen and what are the implications? Building on
scholarship that provides theological and ethical resources to
support the "greening" of religion, God and the Green Divide
examines religious environmentalism as it actually happens in the
daily lives of urban Americans. Baugh demonstrates how complex
dynamics related to race, ethnicity, and class factor into
decisions to "go green." By carefully examining negotiations of
racial and ethnic identities as central to the history of religious
environmentalism, this work complicates assumptions that religious
environmentalism is a direct expression of theology, ethics, or
religious beliefs.
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