RT Article
T1 Ecologia e espiritualidades na modernidade tardia: da trivialidade à ética da sustentabilidade = Ecology and spiritualities in late modernity : from triviality to sustainability ethics
JF Ciencias sociales y religión
VO 18
IS 24
SP 173
OP 190
A1 Silveira, João Paulo de Paula
A1 Sofiati, Flávio Munhoz
A2 Sofiati, Flávio Munhoz
LA Portuguese
YR 2016
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1784585629
AB The aim of this paper is to consider the affinity between ecology and spirituality in late modernity. We seek to understand how ecological contents become fundamental references to the religious experience in the field of spirituality that, roughly speaking, is perceived as an expression of individualization of belief within the contemporary religious landscape. Dealing with the issue ecology, the spiritualities produce a new religious ethic that leads us to understand it beyond the stereotype of utilitarian individualism and triviality commonly attributed to this phenomenon. In the wake of comments from Lorne L. Dawson (2006) and James Beckford (2003), the paper suggest that the meaning of religion in contemporary times must be consider through the dialectical relationship between the religious sphere and other social spheres of late modernity. In this sense, the "ecological turn" started in the 1970’s and radicalized today helped to shape a new direction for religion through "ecospirituality”.
K1 Ecology
K1 Late Modernity
K1 Spirituality
DO 10.22456/1982-2650.58828