RELS 3352 Religion, Spirituality, Ecology
This course investigates the way religious traditions have conditioned our relationship to the environment, through a survey of both Western (Judeo-Christian-Islamic) and Eastern (Chinese, Japanese, and Indian) traditions. It also engages with recent non-traditional religious responses to our environmental crises, such as Deep Ecology, Dark Green Religions, Eco-Feminism, and nature-based spirituality. Goals are to identify and evaluate ecological attitudes, values and practices of diverse traditions, to identify common grounds for understanding environmental issues from a religious perspective, and to highlight the specific resources that comprise such ground within scripture, ritual, myth, symbol, sacrament, and the like.
Cross Listed Courses
Credit cannot be earned for both RELS 3352 and PHIL 3352.
Offered
As scheduled