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The Political Ecology of Death: Chinese Religion and The Affective Tensions of Secularised Burial Rituals in Singapore

Environment and Planning E Nature and Space, 2021
This paper explores the political ecology of death and the affective tensions of secularised burial rituals in Singapore. Although scholars have recently acknowledged the roles of biopower and affect in shaping environmental politics, religion and death ...
Quan Gao, Orlando Woods, Lily Kong
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Ecology of religion: a hermeneutical model

Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 1999
We have to investigate the function of religion, the nature of the environment, and the nature of the human being. We have to ask: what is the nature of the relationship which connects people to their world?
Erika Meyer-Dietrich
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On the Ecology of Faith

Studia Ecologiae et Bioethicae, 2020
Nowadays, we observe a progressive depreciation of faith together will the degradation of the social environment. It concerns faith in a broad sense here, not only religious but also faith in ideals, in ourselves, and the confidence to other people and ...
Wiesław Sztumski
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Charged Moments: Landscape and the Experience of the Sacred among Catholic Monks in North America

Religions, 2019
In light of calls to ‘re-enchant’ the world in the face of our ecological crisis, where do Christians stand on the question of land being sacred? I put this question to monks living at four monastic communities in the American West. For monks
Jason M. Brown
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Religion and Ecology: Perspectives on Environment and Sustainability Across Religious Traditions

Journal of Disability & Religion
This editorial introduces Religion & Development Vol. 2, Issue 3 – Special Issue on “Religion and Ecology: Perspectives on Environment and Sustainability across Religious Traditions.” The articles delve into the intricate relationship between religion ...
Bart B. Bruehler, Asep Kusnadi, Dzul Fikri, Abdurrahman Pandu, S. Zafa, Junarif   +5 more
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Dialogical and Mediatory Potential of an Integral Ecology

Studia Ecologiae et Bioethicae, 2020
The encyclical Laudato si’ is a Catholic document synthesizing the reflection on the main issues related to ecology as well as to nature and climate protection.
Stanisław Jaromi
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Ecology, Religion, and Environment: Sambori Indigenous Religion’s Perspectives towards Nature and Conservations.

The Sunan Ampel Review of Political and Social Sciences, 2022
This paper aimed to examine cosmological aspects in Sambori indigenous community perspectives towards nature and conservations in which the inter-subjective relational relationship between human being and non-human being becomes the primary resource to ...
Nurdin
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The ‘Greening’ of Christian Monasticism and the Future of Monastic Landscapes in North America

Religions, 2019
Christian monasticism has an ancient land-based foundation. The desert fathers and later reform movements appealed to the land for sustenance, spiritual metaphor, and as a marker of authentic monastic identity.
Jason M. Brown
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God, the Bible and the Environment. An Historical Excursus on the Relationship between Christian Religion and Ecology

, 2017
The aim of this paper is double. On the one hand, it focuses on the relationship between Christian religion and ecology in order to inquire into the most common charges that environmentalist movements address to Christians and to evaluate them showing ...
Marco Damonte
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Gelasenheit in Goiás: A Mennonite political ecology

Journal of Political Ecology
In 1968 a group of nine U.S.-born Holdeman Mennonites purchased Cerrado land and later became some of the first farmers to produce high yields of corn and soybeans in Southwestern Goiás, Brazil.
Andrew Lehne Ofstehage
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