Sakamaki Lecture Series: Spiritual Ecology

Spiritual Ecology: Exploring the Relationships Between Religions and Environment with Leslie E. Sponsel.

Religion is an ancient cross-cultural universal; spirituality is an integral component of religion, but also extends beyond organizations to personal relationships with people, nature, and the supernatural. Spiritual ecology asserts that the worsening environmental crisis can only be resolved by a fundamental change in the way humans relate to nature involving sustainable and green environmental worldviews, attitudes, values, behaviors, and institutions. This lecture explores spiritual ecology as a social, political, religious, and environmental movement.

Leslie E. Sponsel, Ph.D., is a professor of anthropology at the University of Hawaii where he was hired to develop and direct the Ecological Anthropology Program. Sponsel has published more than two dozen journal articles, three dozen book chapters, and 29 articles in seven different scientific encyclopedias.

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Outreach College, UH Manoa

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Yvonne Slaughter, 956-8246, csinfo@hawaii.edu, http://www.outreach.hawaii.edu/summer/programs/2007/EVENT-EV008989T.asp

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