Abstract
In order to find a place in public discussions about the environment, usually dominated by bureaucrats and technical agents submitted to national governments, Catholic Church leaders have been formulating their own environmentalist religious ethics (or Ecotheology) since the papacy of Paul VI. Starting in 1970, this Catholic Ecotheology was based on the connection between the physical aspects of the environmental crisis and the diagnosis of a worldwide moral degradation. The “corruption” of nature, in this perspective, is happening not only “outside” but also “inside” the human being. Based on different diagnoses and meanings, this Catholic Ecotheology ends up colliding, in many aspects, with traditional postulates and concepts of secular environmentalist movements. This paper aims to map the formation of this ecological vision following the trail of the Catholic official nucleus, that is, the pontifical discourses and discussions, analyzing sociologically its points of tension with other environmentalist conceptions.
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Renan dos SantosPh.D Candidate, Sociology, University of São Paulo // Research supported by Sao Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP), grant 17/24842-1, Brazil
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ECOTHEOLOGY, RELIGION, ENVIRONMENTALISM, SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
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