Heritage of Nusantara: International Journal of Religious Literature and Heritage
Vol. 5 No. 2 (2016): HERITAGE OF NUSANTARA

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION FROM THE PERSPECTIVES OF INDONESIAN, SUFI AND UNITED KINGDOM MUSLIM ENVIRONMENTALISTS

Irawan, Bambang (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
20 Mar 2017

Abstract

The challenge posed by the world’s current environmental crisis has elicited a response from mainstream world religions in the form of efforts to construct a system of environmental ethics, based on religious and spiritual values. Suggestions for protecting and conserving the environment are a very ancient and fundamental aspects of religious teaching. The author will explore the perspectives of a number of environmental thinkers: Fachruddin Mangunjaya of Indonesia, Hossein Nasr (as representative of Sufism), and Fazlun Khalid of the United Kingdom. The paper well go on to identify a number of different approaches that offer some measure of environmental protection and I will draw on structured and unstructured interviews with these thinkers in order to further explore their published works on nature conservation. From these sources, the author discovers an urgent need for religious communities to engage in the work of sustaining this planet. The author has also identified the means to utilize and empower religious doctrines for environmental conservation. From these three sources, we can learn strategies for elaborating productive Islamic values of environmental conservation and promoting a greater need of engagement and collaboration among them in initiating practical conservation projects.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

heritage

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Subject

Religion Arts Humanities Civil Engineering, Building, Construction & Architecture

Description

Heritage of Nusantara: International Journal of Religious Literature and Heritage, This journal focuses on religious studies (both contemporary and classical), particularly in the fields of Religious Literature, Cultures, and Heritage in Nusantara and Nusantara (Indonesia), and its relation to the ...