Anthropology of Religion

Healing As A Multimedia Practice – Contemporary Spirituality In Turkey, Part 1 (Duygu Sendag)

The following article is published in three installments. Introduction Zeynep, a 37-year-old Turkish woman, comes from a secular family background. She has traveled to Bali and India on different occasions to participate in yoga and meditation courses. Her main goal for joining these activities was to heal her childhood traumas and release emotions related to […]

Sikhism

Sikh Environmental Ethics-Theory and Praxis Part 1 (Harpreet Kaur)

The following is the first installment of a two-part series. Eco-philosophy, or ecosophy, offers insight into the relationship of living beings with their environment. The intersection of faith and eco-philosophy is known as religious environmentalism. This alliance of religion and ecology has been gathering momentum lately. Ikeke[1] notes that science and policy alone cannot tackle […]

Environmental Ethics

Religious Faith In Pursuit of Environmental Justice (Chris Durante)

Introduction In recent years, the world’s religions, including the Abrahamic faiths as well as Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism and various indigenous forms of spirituality, have been increasingly turning their ethical gaze toward the intersection of social, economic and ecological justice issues. This gives me hope because I believe many environmental injustices persist because the values of […]

Religion and Literature

Metaphysical Protestantism-A Comparative Literary Ecology (Zane Johnson)

The influence of religions on human attitudes toward the non-human, whether beneficent or deleterious, has been the subject of serious scholarly debate since at least the publication of Lynn White Jr.’s important essay, “The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis”[1] in the 1960s. This essay issued a near-wholesale condemnation of western Christianity for providing the […]

Religion and Ecology

The Image of God and Our Vocation of the Soil, Part 1 (Mick Pope)

The article is published in two installments. Agriculture and the Anthropocene Earth history has entered a new geological era known as the Anthropocene.[1] The commonly agreed origin of this era was the 1950s with the “Great Acceleration,” a period of rapid economic growth.[2] With its onset, several key elements of the Earth system which represent […]