What does religion have to do with
nature conservation?
: Conflicts, cooperation and competing
conceptualizations of religion and nature conservation
in the German Religions for
Biological Diversity project
Carrie Dohe
Abstract
The Religions for Biological Diversity project of the German Federal Agency
for Nature Conservation promotes nature conservation through religious
communities and fosters greater social harmony through interreligious
cooperation. This paper explores how nature, nature conservation and interfaith
cooperation were understood by participants in the project¡¯s Interreligious Week
for Nature Conservation. Using participation observation, semi-structured
interviews and action research, I found that the events of the Interreligious Week
for Nature Conservation spanned the spectrum between a more scientificallygrounded
nature conservation and a merely symbolic one. The religious
participants often perceived the conservation of nature through traditional
religious values (peace, love, unity), thereby humanizing nature and making its
conservation more relevant to their religious practice. Finally, while tensions
arose between religious actors based on pre-existing conflicts, the greatest tension
stemmed from nature conservationists sceptical about the involvement of religious
actors in nature conservation.
Keywords : Religion and environmentalism,
religion and nature, interreligious dialog, religious conflict, secularism,
nature conservation
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