Important People
This 20th-century thinker inspired some of the first conversations about religion and ecology. He also claimed that Western Christianity is the most anthropocentric religion and that our modern climate crisis is a result of this anthropocentrism.
Who is Lynn White Jr.?
This important tenant in Islam roughly translates to the "responsibility princple."
What is the khalifa?
These two Christian tenants detail how Christians should interact with the environment.
What is stewardship and dominion?
This is the idea that our actions, especially our intentions, have consequences that affect us in this life and in future lives
What is Karma?
Often depicted in Buddhist art, Siddhartha Gautama was said to have experienced spiritual enlightenment under this tree.
What is the bodhi tree?
These two 19th-century anthropologists claim that religions progress on a unilinear evolutionary scale, progressing from least complex (least evolved) to most complex (most evolved).
Who are Tylor and Frazer?
According to Clark, water, shade, and geometric patterns (such as the four-rivers quadrant) are important symbolic elements in these designs.
What is an Islamic Garden?
Who is Calvin Beisner?
Buddhist teachings hold that you must learn to control/eliminate this to end suffering.
Hint: This feature also contributes to Buddhist views on consumption/accumulation, which stand in sharp contrast to the views of Western capital.
What is desire/greed (Tanha)?
Shamanistic rock art often features distinctive lines and swirls associated with this three-letter acronym.
Hint: This can be induced by dehydration, trance, or drug use.
What is "Altered States of Consciousness"? Or ASC
This behavioral geneticist claimed that the VMAT2 gene determined a person's religiosity. He also has made similar claims about male homosexuality.
Who is Dean Hamer?
1950s regulations in Saudi Arabia destroyed thousands of these environmentally protected areas, known for aiding with the allotment of water resources, preventing overgrazing, and saving bee species.
What is a hima?
This subaltern Christian minority group is in charge of recycling efforts in Egypt.
Who are the Zabbaleen?
This is the name for tree ordination practices in Thailand.
What is Buad Paa?
This iconic mountain, important to the Japanese Shinto religion, is also featured in Hokusai's "The Great Wave off Kanagawa"
What is Mt. Fuji?
This prominent Christian saint advocated for the ethical treatment of animals and reverence for Brother Sun and Sister Moon. He also directly inspired the Pope's "Laudato Si" in 2015.
Who is St. Francis of Assisi?
List three of the animals protected on Misali Island.
-Hawksbill sea turtle
-Green Sea turtle
-Pemba flying fox
-Pemba vervet monkey
-Coconut crab
-Corals
-Fish
This term, coined by Pope Francis in 2015, advocates for the entanglement of the economy, religion, society, and culture to create a GLOBAL conversation about climate change.
What is an Integral Ecology?
This author argues that the influences of Christian “stewardship” and the romanticization of the Eastern world have led to a misinterpretation of Buddhist teachings in the West.
Who is Ian Harris?
Malinowski and Radcliff-Brown fall into this approach/discourse, which conceptualized a cause-and-effect relationship between anxiety and religion.
What is the structural-functionalist approach?
This individual defines ecology as the relation of the animal to its organic and inorganic environment. His definition is intended as an accompaniment for Darwin’s “struggle for existence.”
Who is Ernst Haeckel?
This country witnessed the rise of Wuhabbism or "Petro-Islam" as a response to the influences of American capitalism and authoritarian regimes, leading to the intensification of droughts in natural oases.
What is Saudi Arabia?
Max Weber (1905) claimed that this phenomenon transformed daily life by focusing on the accumulation of wealth, self-denial, and hard work. It also lays the foundations for a capitalist society.
What is The Protestant Ethic?
List the 4 Noble Truths.
-Samudaya
-Nirodha
-Magga
In an art piece entitled “Mirror of Faith,” the artists inserted the “God Gene” into this organism.
What is a yeast cell?