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• cgi/1850 Listed below are links to weblogs that reference 'Environmentalism as Religion' from The Agitator. ...

• Environmentalism and Religion.
• Environmentalism and Religion .
•  The topic of the session is environmentalism and religion. ... On one side, we can consider the impact of religiosity upon environmentalism in different religions. On the other side, environmentalism can be interpreted as religion itself. It can be argued that in advanced capitalist societies environmentalism is a postmodern religion, characterized by its fragmentation and individualization. ...

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• Bron Taylor, Associate Professor of Religion, will be the keynote speaker at the PIEC reception February 27, 2003 at the Florida Museum of Natural History. His talk is entitled: "Eco-Anarchy or Eco-Law? Sustainability Politics and Spirituality from Radical Environmentalism to the World Summit on Sustainability. ...
• Hill Ethics Chair in the department of religion, after over a decade at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, where he led an effort to create an Environmental Studies program offering bachelor's degrees, and won a number of teaching and research awards. ... His edited volume, Ecological Resistance Movements: the Global Emergence of Radical and Popular Environmentalism was one of the first volumes to critically examine such social movements around the world. Two books still in progress will examine (first) radical environmentalism in North America, and (second) the growth worldwide of diverse forms of religious perception and environmental action that he calls "Dark Green Religion. " He is also Editor in Chief of the two volume Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature, which is to be published in 2004. ...

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• Religion and Globalization.
• How is religion important in a globalized society? What role does it play in a highly interconnected world?.
• Religion and Globalization explores the interaction between religion and world-wide social and cultural change. ... He explores some of the key issues in understanding the shape of religion today, including religion as culture and as social system, pure and applied religion, privatized and publicly influential religion, and liberal versus conservative religion. He goes on to apply these themes to five illustrative cases of contemporary importance: the American Christian Right, liberation theology movements in Latin America, the Islamic revolution in Iran, religious Zionists in Israel, and religious environmentalism - the response of religions to the degradation of the natural environment.
• "This is an innovative, important and timely book that offers much to social scientists with an interest in the role of religion in the contemporary world. In summary form the question posed by this remarkable book is this: will systemic world religion prove capable of generating the kind of "global civil religion" (albeit diversified) that is much needed where functional differentiation and cultural fragmentation have destroyed shared norms. Thus on the one hand, Dr Beyer challenges the social scientist with an exceptionally wide-ranging theoretical argument, but equally, on the other, he confronts the practitioner with a powerful and suggestive explanation of the function and potential of contemporary religion - and therefore with an opportunity that must not be overlooked"—Professor Richard Roberts   .
• Introduction: Religion in Global Society.
• Systemic Religion in Global Society .
• Religion and Social Movements in Global Society .
• PART TWO: CASE STUDIES: Religion in Global Society - Five Contemporary Cases .
• Religious Environmentalism .

• Sociology of Religion .
• The Sociology of Religion is essentially concerned with two fundamental questions. ...
• The first question involves an examination of theories of religion and its centrality in most societies, and of its alleged decline in contemporary western society.
• Finally, the role of religion in contemporary society and the issue of secularisation are discussed.
• To examine a range of sociological and related theories of religion and critically discuss them.
• To introduce students to the diversity of religious beliefs and practices that can be observed in human societies and to the major forms and types of religion.
• To consider through a discussion of specific cases the role that religion may have in history and in shaping social patterns and in turn how religion has been shaped by historical forces.
• Demonstrate a grasp of the problems surrounding the notion of 'religion'.
• Give an account of the major theoretical perspectives on the significance of religion in society and assess their merits and deficiencies.
• Show an understanding of the role of religious ideas in history and in turn of the impact of history upon forms of religion.
• The stance of sociology towards the truth claims of religion.
• What is religion?.
• The first sub-section deals with non-Christian traditions and lists firstly general items, secondly items by or about the work of the most important classic sociologist of religion, Max Weber, and thirdly items concerned with Buddhism to which particular attention is paid in the unit. ... Section seven is concerned with works that examine the role and future of religion in contemporary and largely Western society including an number of quasi-religious phenomena.
• Bruce The Sociology of Religion 2 vols.
• Hamilton The Sociology of Religion: Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives.

• Bron Taylor's Web Resource for the study of religions, cultures, and environments, with special attention to radical environmentalism, from Deep Ecology to Bioregionalism, and from Earth First! to the Earth Liberation Front.
• Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature.
• Radical Environmentalism, especially Bioregionalism, Deep Ecology, Earth First!, the Earth Liberation Front, and the relationships between radical environmentalism and animal protection movements such as the Animal Liberation Front and the Animal Rights movement, both in and beyond the United States. ...
• Religion and Ecology, namely, the complex relationships among human cultures, religions, and their many built and natural environments. ...
• Established by Professor Bron Taylor, drawing on years of field work and archival research, this website introduces the critical study of grassroots environmentalism, religion and ecology, and the ethical dimensions of contemporary policy disputes, from the conservation of biological diversity to affirmative action. ...
• com, which is a web-based research site for the study of religion and ecology, and a related link for the Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature. ...
• Taylor directs, and syllabi for "Environmental Ethics," "Religion and Earth Ethics," and "Biodiversity and Bioregionalism. ...

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• And when a man like Crichton, a novelist who clearly has his finger on the popular pulse, likens environmentalism to a cult religion, environmentalists would do well to take note.
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• Animism (Environmentalism) .
• These attempts have included the modern interpretation of the celestial spirits as aliens involved in great cosmic visions; the revision of earthly spirits, animism and spiritualism as the belief in Mother Earth, Gaia or the fervent religion of environmentalism; the resurgence of Divination; the popular practice of meditation as a ‘turning away’ from the world and going ‘in’, to name a few.
• Environmentalism, like all religions, can be seen superficially by the gullible believers as ‘doing good’, but when one digs deeper than the seemingly noble ideals we see fervent belief and when it becomes dogma, policy and practice, it causes untold human suffering, hardship, illness and hunger for hundreds of millions of humans. ... So entrenched is the religion of Environmentalism that it is now taught to children in schools to an extent that few other religions have managed, and as such, its ubiquitous and debilitating effects are both widespread and deep-set. It could well be seen as the Next Age religion to emerge, now that Western influence is beginning to investigate, water-down or reject the more fundamental Eastern religious beliefs.

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• Here we have documented an EPA administrator inviting radical eco-spiritual movements to manage government programs and to obtain government funds in the name of eco-religion.
• " The seminar's title was "Invoking the Spirit: Religion and Spirituality in the Quest for a Sustainable World. " Indeed, radical environmentalism has again removed its false "science" mask and acknowledged that its positions are based upon spiritual beliefs rather than on empirical science or objective resource management. ...
• " Thus government has announced that it desires religious groups with eco-spiritual beliefs to use government funds to further their eco-religion.
• 3) The EPA administrator acknowledged that government funds "can't be used to directly promote your religion," but asserted that "the money can be used to meet objectives that EPA has out there anyway, such as addressing climate change or water pollution. " Thus, the government will favor religion whose message is the same as the government. Favored Religion that speaks consistent with the State will be endowed with money and prestige from the State. Favored Religion and State will thereby become one. Adherents of Unfavored Religion/Non religion, who fail to speak consistent with the State, will subsidize combined State/Favored Religion with their tax dollars.
• When discretion is involved in the performance of tasks, religion and government more quickly merge. ... Instead of a group of government employees of various spiritual backgrounds whose conflicting beliefs tend to moderate and balance the group's view of facts, the view of only one religion will be reflected. Thus, eco-spiritualists will be more likely to conclude that man must be barred from access to the river, than will a balanced collection of government employees not committed to viewing their task through the lens of religion.
• "It may be only a matter of time before America becomes a complete theocracy -- a place where in the name of environmentalism, science and religion fuse with civil authority to rule the populace. ...
• Congress and the courts must block the "urge to merge" eco-religion and government that continues to build in the executive branch. As documented elsewhere on this site, the Clinton administration laid a radical foundation for the fusion of eco-religion and government. ... The synergy of an official state eco-religion and an omnipresent Department of Homeland Security would be phenomenal. ... Civil rights organizations need to confront attempts to establish government eco-religion sooner rather than later.

• Welcome! This ESR (Environmentalism, Science, and Religion) website is the public interface to a National Science Foundation-sponsored research project led by Professor Jim Proctor, Department of Geography, UC Santa Barbara. The three-year research project explores the dual identity of contemporary American environmentalism: as a "science," it constitutes in many people's minds a rational response to the scientific facts of environmental degradation and a call to scientific management of natural resources, yet as a "religion"**, environmentalism is motivated by spiritual impulse more than science, a sense among many people that nature is sacred and that it is thus their sacred duty to help solve environmental problems.
• ** The term "religion" is used broadly in this study to encompass both intra- and extra-institutional forms of religious belief and practice, thus including what many Americans refer to as "spirituality. " Following this definition, religion (like environmentalism) constitutes a considerable diversity among contemporary Americans.
• What is known about the relationship between environmentalism, science, and religion? We know that over one-half of all Americans call themselves environmentalists, with significant proportions from virtually all ages, economic classes, educational levels, and ethnic identities, hence we can suspect that "environmentalism" means different things to different people. ...
• Historical studies point out that environmentalism is deeply rooted in both science and religion; existing social surveys preliminarily suggest that science and religion-based environmental concern (and combinations of the two; they are not necessarily incompatible) take substantively different forms. ... This research project constitutes the first major detailed study of the role and relative influence of science and religion in contemporary American environmental concern, and more broadly offers a basis to rethink popular understandings of science, religion, and nature, as well as contemporary patterns of trust in authority among Americans.
• Click here for a November 2003 talk based on the survey and interview data entitled "In ______ We Trust: Expanding the Bounds of Religion. ...
• in geography from Berkeley in 1992, also holds a graduate degree in environmental science and an undergraduate honors degree in religious studies, and serves as director for Science, Religion, and the Human Experience, a three-year program of public lectures, faculty seminars, and graduate and undergraduate courses at UCSB. ...
• ESR (Environmentalism, Science, and Religion).

• AD317 Religion Today: Tradition, Modernity and Change:.
• Religion and Social Transformations.
• Perspectives on Civil Religion .
• Religion Today is designed to appeal to both arts and social science students. ...
• Religion Today investigates a wide variety of religious belief and practice in the contemporary context including:.
• religion on the Internet … modern magic … present-day Druids ….
• depictions of divinity in film and television … Buddhist environmentalism ….
• Islamic perspectives on human rights … civil religion ….
• feminist views of religion … Evangelical Christianity ….
• Although our focus is contemporary religion, we need to view religion in the context of both tradition and modernity to answer questions such as:.
• Is religion still relevant?   … » .
• How and why does religion keep changing?   … » .
• Not only do we examine religion - how it affects and is affected by modern society - but we also engage with a variety of theoretical and methodological issues relating to the study of religion. ...

• Environmentalism as Religion.
• Tough-minded Michael Crichton puts forward a compelling argument for removing the religion from environmentalism, and replacing it with science.

• --> Is Environmentalism a New Religion? I’ve never really cared for Michael Crichton’s writing, but this speech on environmentalism is fantastic. ...
• Is Environmentalism a New Religion?.
• I’ve never really cared for Michael Crichton’s writing, but this speech on environmentalism is fantastic. Crichton dissects the movement, which he believes has become “the religion of choice for urban atheists. ...
• I can tell you that the DDT ban has caused the deaths of tens of millions of poor people, mostly children, whose deaths are directly attributable to a callous, technologically advanced western society that promoted the new cause of environmentalism by pushing a fantasy about a pesticide, and thus irrevocably harmed the third world. ...

• Religion in Politics and Society.
• Indeed, a primary meaning of the word "religion" is an institutionalized system of beliefs and practices, and some scholars argue that it is the social aspects of religion—its concern with ritual, morality, and community—that distinguishes it from the more solitary discipline of philosophy. (Others point to the rationalist character of philosophy, in contrast to religion, which often appeals to the emotions. ...
• While it is common to draw a distinction between the "sacred" and the "secular" in discussing the social impact of religion, such categories may not be universally valid. To an extent, they derive from the Christian heritage of the West: Christ’s injunction to "render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s"; Christianity’s early status as a minority religion persecuted by the Roman state; and, in the Middle Ages, the endless power struggles between kings and popes. ...
• Nevertheless, because of the great extent to which Europe and its former colonies have influenced world events during the last 500 years, the distinction between society and politics on the one hand, and religion on the other, is a valuable prism through which to consider current world affairs. The articles collected in this volume explore a few of the many ways in which religion informs, reinforces, and collides with social and political practices around the world. While no book of this size could hope to treat the subject exhaustively, Religion in Politics and Society does seek to provide a starting point for further research.
• The book’s first section examines a few of the roles religion plays in modern culture. We begin with Paul Marshall’s commentary on the West’s need to more seriously consider the importance of religion in international affairs. Next, Mark Clayton looks at a growing movement in the social sciences to reexamine the role of religion in society. ...
• If religion can be a force for compassion and social justice, it can also encourage political strife and violence—a fact that was underscored by the September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States. The second section explores the connection between religion and political violence in some detail, with several articles placing the attacks in a broad historical and philosophical context. ...
• New religions are constantly emerging or dying off; and every now and then, a new religion gains respectability. ...
• Section four is devoted to an issue that has caught the attention of several religious traditions and which, in the view of many commentators, will assume greater importance in the coming decades: the confluence of religion and environmentalism. Faith-based environmentalism is of interest not only because it addresses such topical concerns as global warming and loss of biodiversity, but also because it represents a rare common ground for religion and science. ...

• NO GORE 2000:Theta Q format:Environmentalism.
• Links pro-enviromentalism and anti-environmentalism at data. html My piece on environmentalism.
• In the context of environmentalism, for example, there is a strong and long legacy of: .
• c)populist issues (Joe Sixpack common worker) that involve the bloating and greed of a corporation, which of course, leads to the pollution and therefore environmentalism issues .
• d)and a zillion other cross-referencing tied to stuff and bla bla bla Presidential Candidate Al Gore and environmentalism:.
• Now here is a very crucial point: Here is where environmentalism stops being a simple cause for clean air and becomes some moral cause in the same arena with theology and religion. ... When a person who has general alienated social liberal views, they will not devote any resources of themselves to addressing the tough moral issues in society that plague them and instead look for another fight: That's when all of the "Mother Earth" religion comes to play. ...

• Environmentalism, Modern Religion.
•   I have always thought in the same terms, although I am skeptic at Crichton’s attempt to depoliticize environmentalism and save it for science because it is contrary to his entire argument that it is based on faith. ...

• Crichton on Environmentalism as Religion.
• Author Michael Crichton gave a speech in September about the notion of the modern environmentalist movement as a religion that, in that form, is at least ineffective and at worst, harmful. ...

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