ECORELIGIOSITY

• Authors: Julesz M.
• Languages of publication: HU

Abstracts

EN

Ecoreligiosity expresses a new kind of religiosity, professing the spirituality of the protection of the environment and that of nature. The true environmental religion aims at saving and preserving the built and natural environment, contrary to the sects that by means of 'green washing', only bring about wealth for the leaders of the pyramid organization, at the cost of the members of the sect. The psychic convincing lets the naive, feeble and defenceless victims down by fraudulent 'green thinking', and the victims spot, as a rule, only later what the real motives of cheating environmentalism have been. Environment protection appears in the religious policy of the historical churches as well, though the latter being a really positive phenomenon. The omnipresence of environmentalism also meets the field of religious faith. As far as it is reasonable, environmental faith may be advantageous, even lucrative. In this case, lucrativeness does not mean money-making for the sake of sect leaders, rather this sort of lucrativeness preserves values of the nature for the whole society. Sects and ecosects (i.e. environmental sects) are surrounded by facts and myths alike. Case law and the results of empirical theology suggest that we should be careful about less known or suspiciously too much known spiritual movements. We also can find the negative signs of sect danger at our workplace, by shopping or at other places of common life. We have to recognize it only. In a wider sense of the word, it is important to recognize it in due time, when an organization is just on the way to becoming a sect or an ecosect.

Keywords

EN

ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL PHILOSOPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL RELIGIOSITY; JURISPRUDENCE; LEGAL FUTUROLOGY; RELIGIOUS NETWORKS

Discipline

• LAW_&_ADMINISTRATION: LAW & ADMINISTRATION

• Publisher: Department of Economics and Law, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Tarsadalomkutatas (Social Science Research)
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 25
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 455-474
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Julesz M.

• M. Julesz, University of Szeged (for postal address contact the journal editor)

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

10HUAAAA071323