RLG218H1

Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Religion

In modern history, sacred and sacramental understandings of nature have often been marginalized and criticized as unscientific or superstitious. Today, these beliefs and practices increasingly present themselves as sources of overlooked ecological knowledge, offering important resources in the search for sustainable human-nature relationships. This course focuses upon efforts to recover reclaim, and re-legitimize alternative understandings of nature and traditional ecologies in the context of the contemporary environmental crisis.