Lovescapes: Mapping the Geography of Love: An Invitation to the Love-Centered Life

Lovescapes introduces the reader to the various meanings and manifestations of love and its many cognates such as compassion caring altruism empathy and forgiveness. It addresses how love and compassion have been understood in history and the religions of the world. It goes on to explore the ways that our environments and heredity influence our capacity to love and suggests ways to cultivate love and compassion in ones life. The book shows how the values of love and compassion are integral to finding humane solutions to the daunting problems we face as individuals as a human family and as an earth community--a world in crisis.