This document discusses the relationship between religion and environmentalism. It examines nature-based religions of the past like Stoic and Romantic Pantheism. It also looks at religions like Wicca, Jainism, and traditions of Native American tribes. The document explores how environmentalism has taken on aspects of religion with morals, sacred places, and providing meaning. It argues that environmentalism addresses modern alienation by finding the sacred in nature and encouraging engagement through both faith and knowledge.
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O principal alvo do Diado é a família cristã.
Essa apresentação mostrará como proteger a família das ciladas do inimigo e tornar sua casa um lar de bênçãos.
Over the last several weeks, I have been going through notes and various case studies and I believe I have found the stages a person goes through during recovery and wanted to share them in infograph form. These stages are meant as a model and do not represent an absolute process, rather, they are meant as a representation of the rebuilding process a person undertakes during recovery.
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O alvo do inimigo tem sido a família. Para destruí-la, ele usa alguns instrumentos.
Essa palestra tem como objetivo orientar a igreja para se proteger do inimigo buscando segurança e proteção na Palavra de Deus.
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Palestra para Igrejas - Unindo Lares em BençãosJoão Carlos
O principal alvo do Diado é a família cristã.
Essa apresentação mostrará como proteger a família das ciladas do inimigo e tornar sua casa um lar de bênçãos.
Over the last several weeks, I have been going through notes and various case studies and I believe I have found the stages a person goes through during recovery and wanted to share them in infograph form. These stages are meant as a model and do not represent an absolute process, rather, they are meant as a representation of the rebuilding process a person undertakes during recovery.
Palestra para Igrejas - Restaurando o AltarJoão Carlos
O alvo do inimigo tem sido a família. Para destruí-la, ele usa alguns instrumentos.
Essa palestra tem como objetivo orientar a igreja para se proteger do inimigo buscando segurança e proteção na Palavra de Deus.
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AOS BISPOS
AOS PRESBÍTEROS E DIÁCONOS
AOS RELIGIOSOS E RELIGIOSAS
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E A TODAS AS PESSOAS DE BOA VONTADE
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2. Overview
Nature-based religions of the past
Modern religions
Environmentalism as a religion
What this topic addresses
the struggle to redefine or reconceive of our
connection to the natural world or animals.
How these religions have effected, for better or
for worse, the development of our modern-day
perception of environmentalism.
3. Stoic Pantheism
Nature and God are identical
Preaches to live in “harmony” with nature, not necessarily to
respect or worship anything nonhuman… more focused on
being “rational”
Nature “wishes” us to live rationally
To theists, there is something more worth worshipping than the
world and to pantheists, there isn’t. The world isn’t created for
our special benefit
However, this is to blame for “humanisitc arrogance,” for it only
claims that nothing matters but the human mind.
Things as they are are perfect, things as they shall be are
perfect.
4. Romantic Pantheism
The universe is a living unity that could be
known through the imagination
Imagination>reason
“Love of nature”
Look through “the eyes of imagination” and
see each part of Nature’s significance
Those who know the Unity will never want
to poison the seas or cut down trees
5. The Past and Present: Indian religious
traditions
“we are a part of nature, not a transcendent
species with no responsibilities to the natural
world.”
The collapse of the Civil Rights movement, the
concern with Vietnam and the war, the escape to
drugs, the rise of power movements and the
return to Mother Earth can all be understood as
desperate efforts of groups of people to flee
abstract articulations of belief and superficial
values and find authenticity wherever it could be
found. (Deloria 51)
This is the point people began an developing an
intense interest in Indians
6. “Thinking in Time and Space”
Nature of the world is discerned from a
spatial point of view
The structure of American Indians religious
traditions is taken directly from the world
around them, from their relationships with
other forms of life.
Context=all important for understanding reality
7. Continued…
Places where revelations are experienced are
remembered and set aside as locations for rituals
and ceremonials to reconnect with the spirits.
It’s not what people believed to be true, but what
they experienced to be true.
Regardless of what happens to the people, the
sacred lands remain as permanent fixtures in
their cultural/religious understanding.
“Value judgments involve present community
realities and not a reliance on part of future
golden ages toward which the community is
moving or from which the community has veered”
(67)
8. Tribal religions
Made up of attitudes, beliefs, and practices
that coordinate with the lands the people
live on.
Ex: Hopi people of Arizona needed rain
dance to ensure farming
The correlation between place and religion
is strong
9. Differences with Christianity
To Indians, the creation is all good, and
there was no “fall” of man.
Christian idea that man receives
domination over the rest of creation.
Accepting the story of creation in Genesis
as “historical fact”
10. Americans seeking the
experience
Even if Americans have no contact with
Indians, they are trying to seek a
meaningful life through the footsteps of
tribes and trying to come to “grips with this
land”
Sense of “reconnecting with Nature and
the necessities” like in Thoreau
11. Current religions: Wicca
Wiccans, as followers of Wicca are now commonly
known, typically worship a god (traditionally the
Horned God, who is associated with nature,
wilderness, sexuality and hunting) and a Goddess
(traditionally the Triple Goddess who conceives all.
Other characteristics of Wicca include the ritual use of magic, aOther characteristics of Wicca include the ritual use of magic, a
liberal code of morality, and the celebration of eight seasonal-basedliberal code of morality, and the celebration of eight seasonal-based
festivals.festivals.
12. Rise of popularity in the ‘70s
In 1974, The Council of American Witches took pains to
establish Wicca’s credentials as an environmentally sensitive
religion.
“Wicca’s seizure of the position of the most ‘environmental’
religion was well timed. Environmentalism was trendy… Many
Christian were ambivalent toward the environmental
movement, in some cases because they chose to see it as a
competing religion--a pagan religion.” (Clifton 52)
Environmentalism still threatens to become either a false
religion or else a distraction from ministering to human
suffering--assuming, of course, that humanity is seen as outside
of nature
The question: Is nature being worshipped, or is It the Gods ofThe question: Is nature being worshipped, or is It the Gods of
nature being worshipped?nature being worshipped?
13. Current religions: Jainism
Jainism differs from other religions in its concept of God.
Jainism regards every living soul as potentially divine. When the
soul sheds its karmic bonds completely, it attains God-
consciousness. It prescribes a path of non-violence to progress
the soul to this ultimate goal.
Jain practices are derived from the above fundamentals. ForJain practices are derived from the above fundamentals. For
example, the principle of non-violence seeks to minimize karmasexample, the principle of non-violence seeks to minimize karmas
which may limit the capabilities of the soul.which may limit the capabilities of the soul.
Jainism views every soul as worthy of respect because it has theJainism views every soul as worthy of respect because it has the
potential to become Siddha.potential to become Siddha.
Because all living beings possess a soul,Because all living beings possess a soul,
great care and awareness is essential ingreat care and awareness is essential in
one's actions in the incarnate world.one's actions in the incarnate world.
Jainism emphasizes the equality of allJainism emphasizes the equality of all
life, advocating harmlessness towardslife, advocating harmlessness towards
all, whether these be creatures great orall, whether these be creatures great or
small. This policy extends even tosmall. This policy extends even to
microscopic organisms.microscopic organisms.
14. Environmentalism as religion?
From Faith in Nature by Thomas Dunlap (edited by our
favorite, William Cronon)
“Environmentalism does share common characteristics
with the human belief systems and institutions that we
typically label with the word religion” (xi)
Complex series of morals for ethical action
Certain landscapes are celebrated as sacred/emotions
inspire similar feelings associated with cathedrals and
sacred texts
(Think back to Leopold’s “Land Ethic”)
15. Continued…
Religion=most important places where
human being explore the deepest
meanings of their lives and the ulitmate
mysteries of the universe (xiv)
Therefore, environmentalism isn’t
necessarily the antithesis of religion,
but rather, just another way to find
meaning.
16. The point?
Environmentalism has a future
It has developed in response to real problems and
human needs
The balance between faith an knowledge, intellect and
emotion, ignorance and mystery
“Environmentalism addresses the alienation in
modern society in a modern context, finding the
sacred in a material world and a way of personal
knowledge and engagement with the world on
the basis of objective knowledge.” (149)
The balance between the individual and
community… much like the land ethic.
17. Bibliography
Faith in Nature by Thomas Dunlap
Spirit and the Environment edited by
Davide Cooper and Joy A. Palmer
God is Red by Vine Deloria
Her Hidden Children by Chas Clifton