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What is sustainability, and why does it matter?
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Challenges to Sustainability
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Do we need religions for sustainable
development?
religion is an orientation to the cosmos and to our role in it
Many of these characteristics give religion substantial influence over the
environment. Worldviews shape attitudes toward the natural world;
rituals have been used to govern resource use, especially among
indigenous peoples; ethics influences resource use and distribution; and
institutional power can shape behaviors and policies in ways that affect
the environment, for better or worse
religion is now emerging alongside race, gender, and ethnicity as one of
the key identity markers of the twentieth century
two contested twenty-first century identity markers: religion and
sustainability
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The potential power of religion
Adherent estimates in 2012
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If the development crisis is in many ways intimately interwoven
with religion, to decouple environmental and social problems
from religion would be a retrogressive step for sustainable
development
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What do we get from religion?
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Is sustainable development enough?
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Role of religions to sustainability
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In Islam:
Doctrine of tawheed or Oneness of God, bear the notion of one
universe and one system, no demarcation between man (society) and
nature (ecology), natural-supranatural
Principle of adalah or justice
We sent our messengers supported by clear proofs, and we sent
down to them the Book and the balance, that the people may uphold
justice. (Al-Hadid (57): 16
The concept of rahmat lil aalamin or mercy onto universe
We have sent you out of mercy from us towards the whole
world. (Al-Anbiya (21): 107)
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B. RELIGION DRIVES ECOLOGICAL & SOCIAL ACTIVISMS
Eco-pesantren
Indonesia
Sarvodaya Shramadana
Movement
in Sri Lanka
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C. CAPACITY OF ENABLING SELF DEVELOPMENT
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Religion: in the nexus of science - society-
sustainability
SOCIETY
SCIENCE Negotiation of
salience, Goals, Values
Scientific credibility,
knowledge legitmicay
Religion & Belief
Sustainable
Behavior
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