Religion and Environment

Catalog description

This course explores the ways in which a variety of religious traditions across the world have shaped fundamental conceptions of humanity's place within nature, including the kinds of environmental ethics that arise from these conceptions. The course examines the foundational texts and practices of selected world religions and considers how these texts and practices are being used by contemporary religious leaders to shape religious responses to current ecological challenges, such as environmental pollution, global climate change, and the factory farming of nonhuman animals. 001331