Religion and environment : exploring the ecological turn in religious traditions, the religion and development debate and beyond
| dc.contributor.author | Öhlmann, Philipp | |
| dc.contributor.author | Swart, Ignatius, 1965- | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-07-12T12:00:16Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-07-12T12:00:16Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2022-12 | |
| dc.description | This article is a revised and augmented version of “Chapter 3: Religions and the Environment” in the Joint Learning Initiative on Faith and Local Communities’ (JLIFLC) Report, The State of the Evidence in Religions and Development (2022). Financial support by the JLIFLC for the original report is gratefully acknowledged. | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | Achieving ecologically sustainable societies necessitates fundamental social and cultural transformations. Religion has the potential to foster the required paradigm shifts in mindsets, behaviour and policy. Moreover, in many religious communities there is increasing engagement with questions of environment, climate change and ecological sustainability. This has led to an increasing corpus of literature engaging with the nexus between religion, environment, development and sustainability. The purpose of this article is to provide an overview of recent ecological trends in religious traditions as well as the literature on religion and sustainable development and on religion and ecology. While an ecological turn is evident in many religious communities and has been well documented in the literature, it emerges that more research is necessary on the way that this phenomenon manifests in environmental action at individual and institutional levels. | en_US |
| dc.description.department | Practical Theology | en_US |
| dc.description.librarian | hj2023 | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | The German Research Foundation through the International Research Training Group 2706 “Transformative Religion: Religion as Situated Knowledge in Processes of Social Transformation” as well as the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development through the research project “Driving Forces of Transformation: Religious Communities as Actors of Sustainable Development”. Research work for the project consortium “South African–German Research Hub on Religion and Sustainability” (SAGRaS) (2022-2025). SAGRaS is funded by the National Research Foundation (NRF) and forms part of the South African—German Collaborative Research Programme (SAG-CORE) on “The Interface between Global Change and Social Sciences – post-COVID-19”. | en_US |
| dc.description.uri | https://brill.com/view/journals/rt/rt-overview.xml | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Öhlmann, P., & Swart, I. (2022). Religion and Environment, Religion and Theology, 29(3-4), 292-321. doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/15743012-bja10044. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1023-0807 (print) | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1574-3012 (online) | |
| dc.identifier.other | 10.1163/15743012-bja10044 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/91376 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Brill Academic Publishers | en_US |
| dc.rights | © 2022 Koninklijke Brill NV | en_US |
| dc.subject | Religion | en_US |
| dc.subject | Environment | en_US |
| dc.subject | Religion and development | en_US |
| dc.subject | Sustainable development | en_US |
| dc.subject | Ecological turn | en_US |
| dc.title | Religion and environment : exploring the ecological turn in religious traditions, the religion and development debate and beyond | en_US |
| dc.type | Postprint Article | en_US |