Enviro-faith?
In today’s Chronicle (1/14/10), Stephen Asma, a professor of philosophy at Columbia College Chicago, offers an extended parallel between contemporary environmentalism and religion. He posits that environmentalists give a green rationale to their internalized aggression, guilt, and feelings of unworthiness, while religious folk give a godly shape to those psychological struggles.
Asma grounds this comparison [...]
Posted on January 14, 2010 at 3:47 pm by margot · Permalink
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In: Text · Tagged with: empathy, environmentalism, Frans de Waal, religion, Stephen Asma
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