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Religion and the Natural Environment

CSoC Research Theme for 2022-2023

Religion & Ecology currently features first on the page dedicated to "Hot Topics" on the website of the American Academy of Religion (AAR). A growing number of universities are offering courses on religion and the environment. Being a hot topic that crosses boundaries between religious beliefs and spiritual traditions, it is relevant globally, for researchers, political activists, and the public.

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• • Perceptions of the natural environment as reflected in scriptures, mythology, theology, mysticism, and ethics

• • Attitudes towards the natural environment as performed in religious practices

• • Means of preventing natural disasters and coping with them in religious law, theology, preaching, liturgy, ritual, and magic

• • Spiritual leadership and religious institutions in times of ecological crisis – ethical prescriptions and historical case-studies

• • The impact of religion on the treatment of animals and land

• • Non-anthropocentric themes in religious thought

• • Current religious environmentalism: ideologies, activists, organizations
  

For Research Themes of previous years, click on the relevant link below:

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​2019-2020 Violence and its Justification in the Abrahamic Religions.docx

2020-2021 Materials and Materiality.docx

2021-2022 Rethinking Center and Periphery in the Abrahamic Religions.docx

​2022-2023 Religion and the Natural Environment.doc