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Religion and Ecology
The environmental crisis represents a serious challenge to contemporary religion. In order to save nature, religions are re-evaluating their relationship to nature both in practice and scripture. In the past twenty-five years, especially after the 1986 Assisi meeting of religious leaders, many churches, synagogues, temples and informal congregations of organized religions (e.g. Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism) have returned to their scriptures and rituals to better understand how faith and religious practices work together with caring for the earth. Many have encouraged projects from environmental cleanups to working in crisis areas as part of their religious obligations.
Keywords Judaism, Hinduism, Islam, indigenous practices, Christianity, Shintoism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Bahai, Daoism, Jainism, Earth care, environment and religion, faith, interfaith tolerance photo source |
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Flag for Review paulhanley about 1 month ago
People interested in this topic may be interested in my web site www.thespiritofagriculture.com, which looks at the relationship between religion, particularly the Baha'i Faith and agriculture, food and environment.
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