Sacred Sites as a Threat to Environmental Justice?: Environmental Spirituality and Justice Meet among the Diné (Navajo) and Other Indigenous Groups

I explore the intersection of environmental spirituality and environmental justice with special attention given to indigenous ecologies. Indigenous communities often employ the language of discrete "sacred sites" to protect portions of their lands from environmental harm. However, the conc...

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Главный автор: Cladis, Mark Sydney 1958- (Автор)
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Язык:Английский
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Опубликовано: Brill [2019]
В: Worldviews
Год: 2019, Том: 23, Выпуск: 2, Страницы: 132-153
Нормированные ключевые слова (последовательности):B USA / Коренной народ / Святое / Окружающая среда (мотив) / Профанское / Экологическое сознание (мотив) / Экологическая справедливость
Индексация IxTheo:AB Философия религии
AG Религиозная жизнь
BB Этнические религии
KBQ Северная Америка
NCG Экологическая этика; этика мироздания
Другие ключевые слова:B Environmental Justice
B environmental spirituality
B sacred geography
B sacred mountains
B Native American and indigenous religions
B Религия
B Sacred Sites
B indigenous ecology
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Итог:I explore the intersection of environmental spirituality and environmental justice with special attention given to indigenous ecologies. Indigenous communities often employ the language of discrete "sacred sites" to protect portions of their lands from environmental harm. However, the concept of the sacred in Western traditions is typically accompanied by its binary opposite, the profane. Do protected sacred sites implicitly license harm to such "profane" sites as low-income sacrifice zones? Is environmental spirituality in tension with environmental justice? After explicating this problem, I resolve it by exploring indigenous notions of the sacred—notions that are not binary. Indigenous notions allow for treating some discrete lands as places of special power and healing while still maintaining that all lands are sacred and worthy of environmental protection. These are not hierarchical notions of the sacred but variegated ones (or what I call hózhó sacred weaves).
ISSN:1568-5357
Второстепенные работы:Enthalten in: Worldviews
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/15685357-02302001