sparc872
Active Member
While reading through the Humanure Handbook, I came to a page where the author addresses religious history and our relationship to the environment.
He brings up the issue of man as the central focus of creation (Judeo-Christian) or an integral part of nature (most Eastern religions like Buddhism, Hinduism). He calls the debate The ego vs The eco.
Do you think this is a valid theory as to the differing approaches towards the environment between the West and the East? Eastern cultures have a tradition of recycling their byproducts back into the fields whereas in the West, that sort of behavior is oftentimes shunned.
Do you think the connectedness and focus on nature in Eastern religions came first, followed by the religions or was it the other way around? Likewise, was the image of the 'steward over the land' first or religion first in Western religions?
He brings up the issue of man as the central focus of creation (Judeo-Christian) or an integral part of nature (most Eastern religions like Buddhism, Hinduism). He calls the debate The ego vs The eco.
Do you think this is a valid theory as to the differing approaches towards the environment between the West and the East? Eastern cultures have a tradition of recycling their byproducts back into the fields whereas in the West, that sort of behavior is oftentimes shunned.
Do you think the connectedness and focus on nature in Eastern religions came first, followed by the religions or was it the other way around? Likewise, was the image of the 'steward over the land' first or religion first in Western religions?
