RELST-131 Religion and Ecology
This course explores ‘Religion and Ecology,’ beginning from a North American starting point in the 1960s amidst a budding environmentalist movement. Readings explore how mainly Christian theological communities engaged with a new social movement, before broadening to other religious traditions. The course then proceeds via a new theoretical frame: the religious lives of human communities are located within deep time and geographical space, with an eye to the migration history of the human as a natural kind. Along the way, we responsibly speculate about communities located in (what is now) Africa, the Middle East, Europe, Asia, and the Americas. The course ends by asking: how are we to live into a shared environmental future, and what is the role of our deepest religious commitments?
Standard Course (40)
Credits
1