The Environment: Religion and Ethics

ENVIR ST/RELIG ST 270
4-week session | July 15–August 11
Tuesday/Thursday, 1–4 p.m.
3 credits

Online course

Instructor

Anna Gade
Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Environmental Studies
amgade@wisc.edu

Course Description

What are sources on which members of religious communities draw in order to understand and address environmental change? Explores how religious persons and communities confront global environmental questions and challenges today, with case studies drawn from culturally and religiously plural societies such as India and Indonesia.

Introducing diverse varieties of Christianity, Islam, and Hindu and Buddhist systems, gives overview of some approaches in the environmental humanities related to philosophy, history, sociology and anthropology, and ethics.

Fulfills Environmental Studies

Environmental Humanities Foundation

 

UW Designations

Humanities

Intermediate