Editing Gaia philosophy (section)

== Gaia in religion ==

[[Rosemary Radford Ruether]], the American feminist scholar and theologian, wrote a book called ''Gaia and God: An Ecofeminist Theology of Earth Healing''.

A book edited by Allan Hunt Badiner called Dharma Gaia explores the ground where Buddhism and ecology meet through writings by the [[Dalai Lama]], [[Gary Snyder]], [[Thich Nhat Hanh]], [[Allen Ginsberg]], [[David Abram]], [[Joanna Macy]], [[Robert Baker Aitken|Robert Aitken]], and 25 other Buddhists and ecologists.<ref>[http://www.parallax.org/cgi-bin/shopper.cgi?preadd=action&key=BOOKDG] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120315015100/http://www.parallax.org/cgi-bin/shopper.cgi?preadd=action&key=BOOKDG|date=March 15, 2012}}</ref>

[[Gaianism]], an earth-centered philosophical, [[holistic]], and spiritual belief that shares expressions with [[earth religion]]s and [[paganism]] while not identifying exclusively with any specific religion, sprang from the gaia hypothesis.<ref name=book1>{{cite book|last= Dobson|first = Andrew|title=The Politics of Nature: Explorations in Green Political Theory|date=1995|publisher=Routledge|isbn=0415124719|pages=8, 9, 14|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gvWHAgAAQBAJ&dq=%22Gaianism%22&pg=PA9}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Richard Peet|first=Nigel Thrift|title=New Models in Geography - Vol 1: The Political-Economy Perspective|date=1989|publisher=Routledge|isbn=0049101013|pages=90, 97–99|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gdyHAgAAQBAJ&dq=%22Gaianism%22&pg=PA97}}</ref>