God’s Gardeners

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God’s Gardeners is a fictional eco-religious sect devoted to environmental stewardship and survivalism in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy.

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God’s Gardeners canonical 4
God’s Gardeners (former) 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf eco-religious sect
fictional organization
fictional religious group
appearsIn MaddAddam
MaddAddam
surface form: MaddAddam trilogy

Oryx and Crake
The Year of the Flood
associatedWithTheme environmental ethics
post-apocalyptic survival
religion and science
coreBelief environmental stewardship
nonviolence toward animals
preparation for ecological catastrophe
reverence for all living things
countryOfOrigin Canada
createdBy Margaret Atwood
diet veganism
vegetarianism
ethicalCode minimal ecological footprint
respect for biodiversity
fictionalUniverse MaddAddam
surface form: MaddAddam universe
firstAppearance The Year of the Flood
foundedBy Adam One
hasRitual celebration of ecological saints
daily hymns to creation
influences the upbringing of Ren
the upbringing of Toby
languageOfWork English
leaderTitle Adam One
medium novel
narrativeFunction contrast to corporate compounds in the MaddAddam trilogy
opposes corporate biotechnological exploitation
environmental destruction
organizationalStructure Adams and Eves as leaders
practices ascetic living
foraging
recycling and reuse
urban gardening
religionType eco-theology
scriptureForm hymns
saints’ days for environmentalists and scientists
sermons
setting dystopian near-future
teaches self-sufficiency
survivalism
worldview anticipation of a waterless flood
critique of consumer capitalism

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MaddAddam featuresGroup God’s Gardeners
The Year of the Flood featuresGroup God’s Gardeners
Toby memberOf God’s Gardeners
Zeb associatedWithGroup God’s Gardeners
Ren memberOf God’s Gardeners
this entity surface form: God’s Gardeners (former)