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Green Dreams: Religious Cosmologies and Environmental Commitments

University of Toronto

Whereas religions around the world are being challenged to reexamine both their tenets and practice in the ominous wake of ecological deterioration, one particular challenge they face is cosmological. As a global consumer society becomes more prominent, religious ecological thinkers such as "geologian " Thomas Berry assert that a cosmology of commodification is supplanting not only individual religious cosmologies b t also the human appreciation of and relationship to the universe itself.

Key Words: cosmos • consumerism • ecology • religion • religious ecology • religious comsmologists

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