Reconciliation with Nature

1992 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 301-313
Author(s):  
Jürgen Moltmann
Keyword(s):  
Ecological Crisis ◽  
Western World ◽  
Human Race ◽  
Religious Crisis

The first part of this article argues that the ecological crisis of nature today is, at the same time, a religious crisis of the human race, at least of the Western world. In the second part, three perspectives from the Biblical-Christian traditions are offered which may overcome this religious crisis of the human race and the ecological crisis of nature.

scholarly journals Reconceiving the Ecological Wisdoms of Ved?nta in Anthropocene: An Eco-aesthetical Perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pankaj Kumar Verma ◽  
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Prabha Shankar Dwivedi ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Physical Environment ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Deep Ecology ◽  
Ecological Crisis ◽  
Indian Society ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Human Race ◽  
Existential Crisis ◽  
The Relationship

The paper aims to lay out a critical analysis of eco-aesthetical wisdom of pan-Indian society through the lens of ancient seers whose insights for environment and ecology were shaped in the form of the teachings of Vedas and Upani?ads. With the passage of time, the bond between humans and non-humans has largely weakened, and humans have increased exploiting the natural resources without caring for their regeneration. Consequent nature bred hostility is emerging as a bigger crisis in front of the 21st Century world that may sooner turn to be, if not taken seriously, an existential crisis for the whole human race. The Upani?ads enlighten us not only with the knowledge of maintaining the relationship between human beings and physical environment but also among various inhabitants of ecology. Therefore, as Deep Ecology proposes, there should be a shift from human at the centre (anthropocentricism) to ecology at the centre (ecocentrism) which very much was existing in Indian society. So, this paper attempts to deal with the global ecological crisis co-opting with the ecological/environmental ideas and attitude of the classical Indian treatises.

scholarly journals Dictionary of Qur'anic Terms and Concepts

1991 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 168-170
Author(s):  
Mohamed Taher
Keyword(s):  
Original Sin ◽  
Western World ◽  
Reference Book ◽  
Human Race ◽  
Technical Reason ◽  
Community Or ◽  
Basic Meaning ◽  
To Receive

A long-awaited Muslim source and a nonorientalist handy reference book,this glossary (a more appropriate title for this dictionary) of the Qur'an fillsa major vacuum. To date, we had to rely solely on Penrice’s Dictionary andGlossary of the Qur'an. This process of generating sources (indexes,bibliographies, handbooks, dictionaries, glossaries, and the like) - a soleprerogative of the Western world-has recently been taken up by Muslims.A healthy trend in this regard is visible in the source under review.Though this book has covered mainly Qur’anic terms and concepts, ithas admittedly entered into the field of non-Qur’anic terms. This extensionof scope makes it more useful to the community of scholars and studentsof the Qur’an. As the author rightly mentions in his introduction: “In a fewcases, the Arabic terms used are the ones that have become traditionallyaccepted, even though they do not occur in the Qur’an (i.e., wudu') or occurin it in a different sense (i.e. qadhf); these include, in one or two cases,words which for some technical reason are to be regarded as ‘extra-Qur‘anic’even when words from the same root and with the same basic meaning occurin the Qur’an-i.e., bay'ah, though mubaya'ah (in perfect and imperfect forms,that is) occurs in the Qur'an” (pp. xiii-xiv).Mir has used the generally accepted meanings and notions in his scholarlywork. His explanations and notes are interesting and meaningful. For instance,explaining the term “Median Community” or “Ummah Wasat,” he goes onto say that the title of ”Median Community” is not only a prerogative, butalso carries with it a responsibility-the responsibility to stay on the medianpath and guide others to it (p. 132). Similarly, under the term “Repentance”we find “Adam, after he had sinned, repented and was forgiven by God (237).Thus, he was sent upon earth not to receive punishment for his disobedience,but in accordance with an already existing plan. Since Adam was forgiven,no original sin attaches to the human race” (p. 180). Similarly, we find atanother place: “Din has four meanings: 1. Submission . . . 2. A system ofbeliefs . . . 3. Law . . . and 4. Recompense . . .” (p. 49) ...

scholarly journals Sustainability Today: 2000–Present

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy L. Caradonna
Keyword(s):  
Natural World ◽  
Ecological Crisis ◽  
Western World ◽  
Environmental Discourse ◽  
Sustainable Living ◽  
University Campuses ◽  
The Status ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
Sustainability Movement ◽  
The 1960S

We might not live in a sustainable age, but we’re living in the age of sustainability. The movement has gained a level of prominence in recent years that is difficult to dispute. The scholarly fields associated with sustainability have expanded dramatically; new tools and methods have appeared that help define, measure, and assess sustainability; and a broad range of organizations and communities have embraced the principles of sustainable living. Sustainability, in fact, has gone from marginal ecological idea to mainstream movement in a surprisingly short amount of time. We now see sustainability publicized at the supermarket, on university campuses, at the aquarium, in corporate headquarters, in government ministries, and in countless other places. A growing number of universities, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and corporations in the Western world possess an “office of sustainability”— replete with sustainability plans and guidebooks—but none have an “office of green radicalism” or an “office of the status quo.” In a sense, this environmental discourse has won out over rival conceptions of humanity’s relationship to the natural world. This chapter is an attempt to sketch out the different ways in which sustainability has gained a foothold in contemporary society. It is not meant to suggest that our world is sustainable. On the contrary, many barriers and entrenched interests have kept our world rather unsustainable, and Mathis Wackernagel has even argued that, since the 1990s, we have exceeded the Earth’s capacity to sustain us; we are now living in a state of global overshoot. The goal here, rather, is to show the ways in which our society has constructively responded to our ecological crisis—to demonstrate the growth and elaboration of the sustainability movement and describe some of the successes it has achieved in counteracting our bad habits. As the philosophy of sustainability has developed, so too has it expanded its scope. If we recall from earlier chapters, the concept of sustainability began in the eighteenth century as a method of managing forests, and by the 1960s and 1970s it had become a reaction to industrialism and the trend toward ecological overshoot.

scholarly journals Creating Response-Able Futures? Discussing the Conservative Laestadian Desire to Mother within Reproductive Justice

Genealogy ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 72
Author(s):  
Teija Rantala
Keyword(s):  
Ecological Crisis ◽  
Religious Movement ◽  
Human Reproduction ◽  
Western World ◽  
Reproductive Justice ◽  
Religious Revival ◽  
Revival Movement ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Many ◽  
Human Desire

This article discusses the Conservative Laestadian women’s desire to mother and the procreational ethos of the Conservative Laestadian religious movement in the framework of reproductive justice and ecological crisis. The data draws from my doctoral study in which I examined the aspirations of women who belonged in the Conservative Laestadian religious revival movement in Finland. In my attempt to understand the Laestadian women’s desire to mother within the procreational ethos of this conservative religion, and to form an alternative approach to the issue in feminist ethico-ecological framework, I employ Donna J. Haraway’s concept of response-ability together with Bracha L. Ettinger’s theory of matrixial feminine transconnectivity. With this article, I propose that in their multivocality, diversity, and intertwined nature, the Laestadian women’s accounts of motherhood assist in understanding the many aspirations, intentions, agencies, and affects that operate within the desire to mother in this conservative religious movement. The Laestadian women’s diverging accounts enable us to consider motherhood as a manifold issue for a pious woman: a natural duty and an obligation, but also a position through which to claim the status of a subject. This invites us to think of the Laestadian women’s desire to mother more broadly as an entangled ethics of relationality, care, and kin-making beyond human reproduction. To promote a response-able approach to the issue of the desire to mother on the edge of the ecological disaster, we must address the unquestioned transgenerational and procreational models of motherhood and how these complicate the discussion on the reproductive rights of religious female subjects in the Western world. However, as the desire to mother extends toward shared response-ability and more inclusive futures, it requires questioning the human desire to reproduce.

scholarly journals La trilogia distopica di Terry Gilliam: il presente e il futuribile

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefano Oddi
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Guinea Pigs ◽  
Western World ◽  
Human Race ◽  
Terry Gilliam

The article focuses on Terry Gilliam’s so-called ‘Orwellian triptych’, a science fiction trilogy in which the director uses dystopia as a way to highlight some of the major concerns of the Western World. While Brazil (1984) reflects the fear of an all-pervading Capitalism through its Kafkaesque, overbureaucratized universe and The Zero Theorem (2013) aims to describe “the perils of our digitised existence” (Andrew Pulver), Twelve Monkeys (1995) pictures an apocalyptic future in which the human race has been wiped out by a deadly virus mirroring the threat of HIV, and the survivors have been turned into guinea pigs by the members of a grotesque medical oligarchy.

Human Competence and Ecological Crisis

1979 ◽  
Vol 24 (6) ◽  
pp. 468-469
Author(s):  
GARY W. EVANS
Keyword(s):  
Ecological Crisis

World Economy: Prospects and Barriers for Recovery

2012 ◽  
pp. 61-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Ershov
Keyword(s):  
World Economy ◽  
Western World ◽  
Short Time Period ◽  
Market Segments ◽  
Junk Bonds ◽  
The Past ◽  
Time Period ◽  
The Us ◽  
Global Liquidity ◽  
Short Time

According to the latest forecasts, it will take 10 years for the world economy to get back to “decent shape”. Some more critical estimates suggest that the whole western world will have a “colossal mess” within the next 5–10 years. Regulators of some major countries significantly and over a short time‑period changed their forecasts for the worse which means that uncertainty in the outlook for the future persists. Indeed, the intensive anti‑crisis measures have reduced the severity of the past problems, however the problems themselves have not disappeared. Moreover, some of them have become more intense — the eurocrisis, excessive debts, global liquidity glut against the backdrop of its deficit in some of market segments. As was the case prior to the crisis, derivatives and high‑risk operations with “junk” bonds grow; budget problems — “fiscal cliff” in the US — and other problems worsen. All of the above forces the regulators to take unprecedented (in their scope and nature) steps. Will they be able to tackle the problems which emerge?

Indonesian Literature’s Position in World Literature

TEKNOSASTIK ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Dina Amelia
Keyword(s):  
World Literature ◽  
The Other ◽  
National Literature ◽  
Western World ◽  
The World ◽  
The One ◽  
The Voice

There are two most inevitable issues on national literature, in this case Indonesian literature. First is the translation and the second is the standard of world literature. Can one speak for the other as a representative? Why is this representation matter? Does translation embody the voice of the represented? Without translation Indonesian literature cannot gain its recognition in world literature, yet, translation conveys the voice of other. In the case of production, publication, or distribution of Indonesian Literature to the world, translation works can be very beneficial. The position of Indonesian literature is as a part of world literature. The concept that the Western world should be the one who represent the subaltern can be overcome as long as the subaltern performs as the active speaker. If the subaltern remains silent then it means it allows the “representation” by the Western.

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