Religion and Sustainable Development: Analysing the Connections. (17th April 2013)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Narayanan, Yamini; Springett, Delyse
• Is Part Of: Sustainable development. Volume 21:Number 2(2013:Mar./Apr.)
• Page Start: 131
• Page End: 139
• Publication Date: 2013-04-17
• Subjects: Sustainable development -- Periodicals; Economic development -- Environmental aspects -- Periodicals; 330.9
• DOI: 10.1002/sd.1557
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0968-0802

Abstract

<abstract abstract-type="main"> <title>ABSTRACT</title> <p>Religion's role in development has generally been viewed with suspicion, if not indifference, in scholarly and institutional concerns with development planning and policy. The last two decades, however, mark a departure, with a burgeoning interest in religion as a category of analysis in development studies. In this paper, I address the religion–sustainable development nexus specifically, and argue that religion – for both its constructive and destructive potential – must be considered in the sustainable development agenda. Specifically, I identify three ways in which religion may play an important role in enabling sustainable development – through its values, through its potential for social and ecological activism and in the realm of self‐development. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley &amp; Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment.</p> </abstract>