Religion and Ecological Citizenship in the Asian Context
A special issue of Religions (ISSN 2077-1444). This special issue belongs to the section "Religions and Health/Psychology/Social Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2023) | Viewed by 9541
Special Issue Editors
Interests: religious market theory; religion and civic movement; religion and ecology
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Interests: sociology of religion; non-official religion; religious ethics and economy
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The ongoing ecological crisis is forcing civil society to find new ways of coexisting with ecological civilization, which is still controversial in its definition and nature, and to move more broadly beyond a geographically or technologically limited conception of evolution and innovation. This Special Issue is designed to provide a more comprehensive and balanced discourse for scholars who are interested in the relationship between civil society and its ecological transition, especially considering that the role of religion has not been examined enough to be applied to both the East and West. Secularity, as an ideological basis of modern civil society, contributed to the rapid growth and expansion of industrial civilization; however, at the same time, secularism failed to control society’s self-destructive greed and profit-seeking. The combination of secularity and civil society has obviously, through the last hundred years, revealed itself unable to cope with climate changes or disasters through reciprocal cooperation and strict self-control for the last hundred years.
For this reason, this Issue focuses on finding the role for and significance of religious factors in forming and maintaining an ecological citizenship that involves a system of faith and practice strengthening ecological ethics and values in reality. Religion still functions as an inexhaustible source of new faith and conviction in civil society, including in terms of an ecological self-realization, education, and experience of citizens. Above all, this new combination of religion and civil society around recent ecological transition urges scholars to undertake a more profound examination from the variety of available perspectives. Although all authors interested in this problem are invited to this Issue, regardless of their methodological perspectives or hypotheses, priority will be given to articles reflecting political, social, and cultural specifications of each country in Asia. There is limited existing research describing or explaining an ecological citizenship and religious diversity in the Asian context. Ultimatley, this Issue eventually aims to discover an Asian type of the interaction between religion(s) and civil society in an ecologically transitional era.
We request that, prior to submitting a manuscript, interested authors initially submit a proposed title and an abstract of 400–600 words summarizing their intended contribution. Please send it to the Guest Editors (Email: ksyooii@khu.ac.kr) or to the Religions Editorial Office (religions@mdpi.com). Abstracts will be reviewed by the Guest Editors for the purposes of ensuring a proper fit within the scope of the Special Issue. Full manuscripts will undergo double-blind peer review.
Prof. Kwangsuk Yoo
Prof. Dr. Andrew Eungi Kim
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- ecological civilization
- ecological citizenship
- religious diversity in Asia
- religion and civil society
- religion and ecology
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