REL 230 - Green Religion

Green Religion examines global religious environmental concerns and movements, particularly in Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Daoism, Islam, Judaism, and Christianity. We will explore and compare global ecological theologies in these religious tranditions, and we will investigate how women especially in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Christianity address gender and ecological justice simultaneously. Throughout the course, we will attend to the religious understandings of the human person which inform both distorted relationships between human and other-than-human earthly life and religious women’s ecological activism to reconfigure these relationships.

Cross-listed with ENST 230 and GEN 230
3 credits