Gaia and Religious Pluralism in Bruno Latour’s ‘New-Materialism’

In his works on ecological philosophy, Bruno Latour develops an interesting perspective on religion and pluralism. He proposes a new worldview, in which religion is reinterpreted in view of a Gaian philosophy. He extends ‘pluralism’ beyond the anthropocentrism that dominates modern humanism. In his...

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Main Author: Suárez Müller, Fernando 1964- (Author)
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Published: MDPI 2023
In: Religions
Year: 2023, Volume: 14, Issue: 8
Further subjects:B new idealism
B Postmodernism
B Latour
B New Materialism
B Lovelock
B Religion
B (eco-)humanism
B Gaia philosophy
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