RLG2063H: Religion, Nature, and the Environment

This course examines the environment through the lens of religious texts, traditions, and intellectual histories that have shaped enduring ways of understanding nature, meaning, and human responsibility. Rather than examining the environment as an empirical object, the course approaches it as a religiously and symbolically charged domain in which questions of creation, participation, value, and knowledge converge. Particular attention is given to how religious and post-religious frameworks have informed modern attitudes toward ecology, science, and technology, often establishing implicit criteria for what counts as knowledge, agency, and moral responsibility. Topics may include disenchantment, anthropocentrism and relational ontology, human and non-human agency, and the ethical implications of instrumental and utilitarian views of nature.

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