RELIGIÃO E MEIO AMBIENTE: UMA BREVE ANÁLISE DA ECOLOGIA NA PERSPECTIVA DAS RELIGIÕES DA TRADIÇÃO ABRAÂMICA

Abstract

Several segments of the ecological movement seek to articulate the current global environmental crisis with the issue of religious traditions. In fact, one can not fail to observe the theoretical challenges of this issue, first, the problem of the relationship between religion and the environment. The religious traditions demonstrate an ecological-religious perception of the world, because they connect the human being in the dialogue between the sacred and the nature, defining to a certain extent, the place and the responsibility of this human being, between, with and before the other creatures. This can be verified in the Abrahamic traditions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam. These religious traditions, according to their sacred writings, understand that there are virtues and values in the environment, capable of producing justice and mercy effectively. At the same time as this ecological-religious perception of the world is clear in the sacred scriptures of the Abrahamic traditions, it is perceived that for a long time these traditions acted ambiguously and on many occasions loosely as regards their responsibility to fight for the environment. In this context this dissertation is inserted. It offers a glance and debate around the rich assumptions emanating from the sacred scriptures of these Abrahamic traditions regarding the environmental issue. But it also indicates their negligence in appropriating these teachings and striving for a cause that affects all mankind. The research, of bibliographic and descriptive nature, was developed from a review and analysis of literature, based on information collected and selected from the literature on the proposed theme, namely: religion, environment and Abrahamic tradition. The dissertation was elaborated in three chapters that describe on the ecological question as a religious phenomenon observable in the Abrahamic traditions. The first chapter sought to demonstrate the sacred relationship with the ecosystem from the scriptural heritage of the Abrahamic religions. In the second chapter, nature was analyzed as a sacred object, with the resumption of the humanitarian spiritual dimension, capable of helping to reconnect the human being and the universe. The third chapter developed from the interpretative nucleus common to the Abrahamic traditions, projecting the sense of universal responsibility, from a co-participatory view of essential principles that aid in the universal ethical parameter. It was concluded that religions of the Abrahamic tradition, although they have a clear ecological-religious perception of the world from their sacred texts, and because they bind the human being in the dialogue between the sacred and the nature, could be more proactive to fight in favor of a policy of caring for the environment and the planet Earth.