Also, Im just looking at a book on the anthropology of religion and it sets out the characteristics of a religion...
1 religious or practical
2 Doctrinal or philisophical
3 Mythic or narrative
4 Experimental or emotional
5 Ethical or legal
6 Organisational or Social
7 Matierial or Artistic
8...
If you take a look at the tennets of deep ecology as proposed by Arne Naess and also writings of transendentalists such as Emerson you see that a spiritual understanding of the environment is right at the core of these philosophies. Also the idea of the environment as a sort of living bible...
This is actually my dissertation title. I am a student at plymouth uni. Basically Ive been looking at the similarities between environmentalism and religion. I would really appreciate your thoughts on how different religions see our relationship with nature and our responsibilities towards it.
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