But it seeks revelation the old-fashioned way, with fingers and sticks and amplifiers: an old-time religion of restraint, simplicity and concentration.
In areas such as religion and politics, restraint is called for.
In "Our Other," performed Friday at Danspace Project at St. Mark's Church, Ms. Maar weaves an intricate tapestry pairing ideas related to nature and religion, humans and animals, sexuality and restraint.
Religion has always taught the necessity for restraint, limits and the impossibility of transcendence in this world.
In effect, by not accepting Saudi largesse the militant will be keeping food off his own family's table – a powerful restraint in a culture and religion in which parents are highly regarded and respected.
But our multicultural, multethnic societies, which embrace vastly differing views on religion, also require self-restraint.
Besides, I have yet to hear, for the first time, the charge from abroad that California is beyond the restraints of religion and morality, because there is no chaplain in her Legislature.
In her book, The Evangelicals, Frances Fitzgerald recounts the words of the Earl of Shaftesbury, an evangelical Tory, who in the mid-19th century noted that to deprive "'the masses' of 'the checks and restraints of religion' would be to invite Communism, anarchy, and mob rule".
The Free Exercise Clause, we have noted, "withdraws from legislative power, state and federal, the exertion of any restraint on the free exercise of religion.
In alignment with these "ecojustice" concerns, religions can encourage values and ethics of reverence, respect, restraint, redistribution, responsibility, and renewal for formulating a broader environmental ethics that includes humans, ecosystems, and other species.
