Religion and Environmental Flourishing: Reflections from the Pandemic Experience
Religion and Social Communication, volume 20, issue 2 (2022), pp. 175-368
ISSN 1686-9184
"The contributions in the form of research articles and essays come from a variety of religious perspectives – Buddhist, Catholic, Muslim, Jain, Hindu, Protestant, Eastern Orthodox. Despite coming from different religious worldviews, the underlying message fundamentally affirms that promoting ecological flourishing requires an approach that centers on both praxis and spirituality in order to prevent the task of caring for our common home to become simply a series of dry mechanical calculations, purely theoretical propositions, or clever policy enactments. Religions at their best inspire and infuse external acts that are consistent with authentic interior virtues ordered to the wellbeing of both humanity and the natural environment. In this respect, religions must undergo its own self-examination in order to adequately speak to the present context." (Page 176)
Need for an Environmental Spirituality Going Forward / Anthony Le Duc, SVD, 175
THEME ARTICLES
(Re)Discovering the Sacredness of Mount Pulag: A Post-COVID-19 Pandemic Eco-Spiritual Grounding / Rico C. Jacoba and Brigido Dubao, 181
Reviving the Islamic Narratives about the Sacredness of Nature: A Case for Nasr’s Ecosophy as Political Ecology after the COVID-19 Pandemic / Mohd. Shazani Bin Masri, 201
Ecological Conversion: What Can We Learn from the African Traditional Religions? / Clement Baffoe, SVD, 222
An Exploration of Cordilleran Students’ Christian Environmentalism (CE) and Environmental Awareness (EA): Towards a Post-COVID-19 Pandemic Response to Laudato Si’ / Jeramie N. Molino, 244
Buddhist Environmental Humanism: A Humanistic Spirituality to Promote Ecological Flourishing / Anthony Le Duc, SVD, 269
A Response to the Ecological Crisis in the Post-Pandemic World from the Eastern Christian Perspective / Joseph Cao Viet Tuan, CM, 293
THEME ESSAYS
Ecological Disaster and the Role of the Church in Indonesia / Batara Sihombing and Desri Maria Sumbayak, 320
Environmentalism for the Post-Pandemic World: Lessons from Jainism and Jain Monks / Bhumi Shah, 334
Blessed be the Vulnerable: An Environmental Spirituality Arising out of the Pandemic / John Patrick Murray, OSA, 343
Religion, Education, and Ecology in Light of the COVID-19 Pandemic in India / Pravat Kumar Dhal, 354
THEME ARTICLES
(Re)Discovering the Sacredness of Mount Pulag: A Post-COVID-19 Pandemic Eco-Spiritual Grounding / Rico C. Jacoba and Brigido Dubao, 181
Reviving the Islamic Narratives about the Sacredness of Nature: A Case for Nasr’s Ecosophy as Political Ecology after the COVID-19 Pandemic / Mohd. Shazani Bin Masri, 201
Ecological Conversion: What Can We Learn from the African Traditional Religions? / Clement Baffoe, SVD, 222
An Exploration of Cordilleran Students’ Christian Environmentalism (CE) and Environmental Awareness (EA): Towards a Post-COVID-19 Pandemic Response to Laudato Si’ / Jeramie N. Molino, 244
Buddhist Environmental Humanism: A Humanistic Spirituality to Promote Ecological Flourishing / Anthony Le Duc, SVD, 269
A Response to the Ecological Crisis in the Post-Pandemic World from the Eastern Christian Perspective / Joseph Cao Viet Tuan, CM, 293
THEME ESSAYS
Ecological Disaster and the Role of the Church in Indonesia / Batara Sihombing and Desri Maria Sumbayak, 320
Environmentalism for the Post-Pandemic World: Lessons from Jainism and Jain Monks / Bhumi Shah, 334
Blessed be the Vulnerable: An Environmental Spirituality Arising out of the Pandemic / John Patrick Murray, OSA, 343
Religion, Education, and Ecology in Light of the COVID-19 Pandemic in India / Pravat Kumar Dhal, 354
