Environmental Stewardship: Confluence of Law and Religion?
Why should we bear responsibility for the degradation of the environment? A wide range of responses is on offer to this question. Common to them all is that they are all rooted in one or the other ontological and epistemic point of departure or set of premises. This raises the question of the relati...
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ftnorthwestuniv:oai:repository.nwu.ac.za:10394/39776 2023-05-15T13:28:36+02:00 Environmental Stewardship: Confluence of Law and Religion? Venter, Francois 10057358 - Venter, Francois 2022 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/10394/39776 https://doi.org/10.17159/1727-3781/2022/v25ia13879 English en eng PER/PELJ Venter, F. 2022. Environmental Stewardship: Confluence of Law and Religion? Potchefstroomse elektroniese regsblad = Potchefstroom electronic law journal, 2022(25):1-30 [http://www.nwu.ac.za/p-per/index.html] 1727-3781 http://hdl.handle.net/10394/39776 https://doi.org/10.17159/1727-3781/2022/v25ia13879 Environmental law Climate change Ecology Anthropomorphism Ecocentrism Earth jurisprudence Moral conviction Article 2022 ftnorthwestuniv https://doi.org/10.17159/1727-3781/2022/v25ia13879 2022-08-16T00:17:39Z Why should we bear responsibility for the degradation of the environment? A wide range of responses is on offer to this question. Common to them all is that they are all rooted in one or the other ontological and epistemic point of departure or set of premises. This raises the question of the relationship between law and religion and linkages of religion with environmental concerns. What emerges, perhaps against the volition of the scientific world, is that the foundational links between environmental law and religion are significant – even where environmentalists shirk from or even denounce religion. Justification of this view is found in a concise survey of the essence of law and religion. The analysis leads to the notion of stewardship, a concept steeped in, but not exclusive to religion in its diverse manifestations. Examples of ecocentric religious attitudes – ranging from the traditions of the North American Anishinabek, aboriginal Australians and indigenous African culture to Buddhism and Hinduism, Judaism and Christianity in its principal manifestations – provide a broad picture of adherence to beliefs in human responsibility to take care of the environment. This widespread conviction of stewardship endures despite awareness of the human inability to create or sovereignly to determine the course of nature (here termed "the hypothesis of incompetence"). Article in Journal/Newspaper anishina* North-West University, South Africa: Boloka (NWU-IR) Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal 25 |
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Why should we bear responsibility for the degradation of the environment? A wide range of responses is on offer to this question. Common to them all is that they are all rooted in one or the other ontological and epistemic point of departure or set of premises. This raises the question of the relationship between law and religion and linkages of religion with environmental concerns. What emerges, perhaps against the volition of the scientific world, is that the foundational links between environmental law and religion are significant – even where environmentalists shirk from or even denounce religion. Justification of this view is found in a concise survey of the essence of law and religion. The analysis leads to the notion of stewardship, a concept steeped in, but not exclusive to religion in its diverse manifestations. Examples of ecocentric religious attitudes – ranging from the traditions of the North American Anishinabek, aboriginal Australians and indigenous African culture to Buddhism and Hinduism, Judaism and Christianity in its principal manifestations – provide a broad picture of adherence to beliefs in human responsibility to take care of the environment. This widespread conviction of stewardship endures despite awareness of the human inability to create or sovereignly to determine the course of nature (here termed "the hypothesis of incompetence"). |
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