What is it about?
The paper discusses the relationship between religion and ecology. The following question is asked: Are religion and ecology in conflict or in contradiction? Emmanuel Levinas's work is used as an example and his work is analysed from that point of view. The most important concept is the concept of hierarchy. The conclusion is that if the religion does not imply hierarchy, it is not in contradiction with ecological movement.
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There is a need to see how the ecological movement could be part of diverse cultural contexts, in different religions. The paper also questions the concept of human domination over the nature that is a source of many ecological disasters that we are facing today.
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There is a need to see how the ecological movement could be part of diverse cultural contexts, in different religions as Arne Naes (Deep Ecology) proved. I show also that religion is not necessarily in contradiction with ecological movement. However, the concept of hierarchy is in contradiction with the ecological movement.
Alzbeta Kuchtova
Slovak Academy of Sciences
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This page is a summary of: Humanity as a New Image of the Divine Absoluteness, May 2023, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/9789004544604_016.
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