Abstract:

Responding to the environmental crisis requires a fundamental transformation of world religions. In the concept of sustainability we find a change not only in religion's understanding of the value of the natural world and the need to alter its own ecological practices, but a possible awakening to the finite nature of human—including religious—existence.

Keywords: SUSTAINABILITY; RELIGION; ENVIRONMENTALISM

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1163/156853508X359967

Affiliations: 1: Professor of Philosophy, Department of Humanities and Arts, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts