宗教、生态与人类繁荣

IF 1.4 0 RELIGION
Francis-Vincent Anthony
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在过去的60年里,人们越来越意识到全球生态危机威胁着人类的生存。对人类未来生活的关注导致了维护环境权利和可持续发展的必要性。与其他人权一样,由此产生的国家义务需要得到公民参与的补充,并由社会领域的共同价值观来维持。我们提出的问题是,鉴于宗教传统以不同的方式呼吁神-人-宇宙现实的相互依存关系,宗教是否能够在支持环境权利、公民参与和环境保护方面发挥重要作用。我们在印度泰米尔纳德邦的多元宗教背景下进行了实证研究,试图验证高中学生和大学生的宗教认同是否对他们对环境义务、参与和关怀的态度有一定的影响。结果表明,高中生对国家义务和公民参与高度敏感,但他们的宗教信仰似乎没有影响。相反,大学生对环境保护表现出强烈的认同,印度教徒表现出更高的敏感性。此外,宗教的变革功能、宗教多元化、人类尊严和同理心等变量与基督徒、穆斯林和印度教徒的环境保护有良好的联系。最后,我们讨论了预测因子对生态教育的影响。
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Religion, Ecology and Human Flourishing
Abstract During the past six decades, there has been an ever-growing awareness of the global ecological crisis threatening human survival. Concern for the future of human life has led to the necessity of upholding environmental rights and sustainable development. As in the case of other human rights, obligations of the state that derive from these need to be complemented by civic engagements, and sustained by shared values in the societal sphere. The question that we raise is if religions can play a significant role in favouring environmental rights, civil engagements and environmental care, given that in varied ways religious traditions appeal to the interdependence of divine-human-cosmic realities. The empirical research that we undertook in the multi-religious context of Tamil Nadu, India, seeks to verify if the religious identity of the senior secondary school students and college students has some influence on their attitude towards environmental obligations, engagements and care. The results show that senior school students are highly sensitive to state’s obligations and civil engagements, but their religious affiliation does not seem to influence it. Instead, college students manifest strong agreement to environmental care, with Hindus displaying higher sensitivity. Besides, variables such as transformative function of religion, religious pluralism, human dignity, and empathy have favourable association with environmental care for Christians, Muslims and Hindus. We conclude with a discussion on the implications of the predictors for eco-education.
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