Joanna Macy

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Joanna Rogers Macy
Born (1929-05-02) May 2, 1929 (age 94)
San Francisco, California, U.S.
OccupationAuthor, Buddhist scholar, environmental activist
NationalityAmerican

Joanna Rogers Macy (born May 2, 1929), is an American environmental activist, author, scholar of Buddhism, general systems theory, and deep ecology. She is the author of eight books.[1] Her best known work is Coming Back to Life: Practices to Reconnect Our Lives, Our World.

Writings[change | change source]

  • Macy, Joanna (1983). Despair and Personal Power in the Nuclear Age. New Society Pub. ISBN 0-86571-031-7.
  • Macy, Joanna (1985). Dharma and Development: Religion as resource in the Sarvodaya self help movement. Kumarian Press revised ed. ISBN 0-931816-53-X.
  • Macy, Joanna; Seed, John; Fleming, Pat; Naess, Arne; Pugh, Dailan (1988). Thinking Like a Mountain: Toward a Council of All Beings. New Society Publishers. ISBN 0-86571-133-X.
  • Macy, Joanna (1991). Mutual Causality in Buddhism and General Systems Theory: The Dharma of Natural System (Buddhist Studies Series). State University of New York Press. ISBN 0-7914-0637-7.
  • Macy, Joanna; Barrows, Anita (1996). Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God: poems by Rainer Maria Rilke. Riverhead Books. ISBN 1-59448-156-3.
  • Macy, Joanna; Young Brown, Molly (1998). Coming Back to Life : Practices to Reconnect Our Lives, Our World. New Society Publishers. ISBN 0-86571-391-X.
  • Macy, Joanna (2001). Widening Circles : a memoir. New Catalyst Books. ISBN 978-1897408018.
  • Macy, Joanna (2005). World as Lover, World as Self. Parallax Press. ISBN 0-938077-27-9.
  • Macy, Joanna (2010). Pass It On: Five Stories That Can Change the World. Parallax Press. ISBN 9781888375831.
  • Macy, Joanna; Johnstone, Chris (2012). Active Hope : how to face the mess we're in without going crazy. New World Library. ISBN 978-1-57731-972-6.

References[change | change source]

  1. George Prentice (January 18, 2012). "Anti-nuclear activist is 'just a sucker for courage'". Boise Weekly. Archived from the original on August 15, 2018. Retrieved November 14, 2019.

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