Religion And Environment

Religion and Environment

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Religion and Environment
What role does pietism play in shaping our attitude towards the indwelling hu earthness? One answer was proposed in 1967 by UCLA History prof Lynn etiolated, Jr., who wrote an article entitled, The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis (Science 155(3767):1203-1207, 1967). In this article, he said that the western sandwich worlds attitudes towards nature were shaped by the Judeo-Christian tradition (he also included Islam and Marxism within this overall tradition). This tradition, White wrote, involved the concept of a world created solely for the expediency of man: God planned all [of concept] explicitly for mans usefulness and rule: no item in the physical creation had any purpose save to serve mans purposes. Along with this, Western Christianity separated human race from nature. In older religious traditions, humans were seen as part of nature, rather than the ruler of nature. And in animistic religions, there was believed to be a spirit in all(prenominal) tree, mountain or spring, and all had to be respected. In limit with paganism and Eastern religions, Christianity not only established a dualism of man and nature but also insisted that it is Gods will that man exploit nature for his proper ends.



White noted that Christianity was a complex faith, and different branches of it differ in their outlook. notwithstanding in general, he proposed that Christianity, and Western civilization as a whole, held a view of nature that separated humans from the rest of the natural world, and encouraged exploitation of it for our own ends. There has been much intelligence of these ideas, and they have been both attacked and supported ( somewhat of this discussion is referenced below). But there is no doubt that this article raised some important questions. There is much literature on the set of religious beliefs and traditions on a persons attitude toward the natural environment. What follows is a sampling of discussions of viewpoints of...If you want to get a full essay, ready it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com



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