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Islamic Ecotheology
Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Theology, Department of Theology, Systematic Theology.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6546-7029
2025 (English)In: Intersections of Religion, Education, and a Sustainable World / [ed] Sally Windsor; Olof Franck, Cham: Springer, 2025, 1, p. 25-40Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

The intensifying debate over environmental destruction, global heating, and humanity’s roll in the emission of that greenhouse gases threating the Earth, humanity, and all animal and plant life, has been accompanied by a parallel debate over these same issues by Muslim thinkers. The reason is that these threats are not limited to coun-tries in the West but undermine the conditions for life on the entire planet.One element of the debate in the West has been the role played by religion, or, more precisely, Christianity in the environmental and climate crisis. The Christian creation story, which elevates human beings to lords of creation with sovereignty over the Earth, has been a prominent target of criticism. Its perspective has been accused of conferring legitimacy upon humanity’s plundering of nature. A similar viewpoint can be found in the Muslim creation narrative, which presents human beings as the supreme creation in whose service God has created everything under the heavens. For Muslims, the question is how to engage with this criticism. Do Muslim theologians agree that Islam’s creation narrative and view of humanity have contributed to the overexploitation of the resources of nature? How do Muslim theologians regard Islamic creation theology’s view of the relation between humanity and God’s non-human creations? This debate is connected to a larger question that relates to the role of religion in climate and environmental issues. Do Muslim theologians agree that Islam is a part of the problem, or do they present Islamic creation theology and its theological eth-ics as the solution to the problem? Does Islamic ecotheology see the solution as lying in religion/Islam or somewhere else? Do they think that the solution lies in the individual or should the issue be dealt with at the collective level as politics? 

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Cham: Springer, 2025, 1. p. 25-40
Keywords [en]
Islamic Ehotheology, God’s sign, Āya, Custodial responsibility, Amana, God’s representative, Khalifa, on earth
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Religious Studies
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Systematic Theology and Studies in Worldviews
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URN: urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-552026DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-81809-7_3ISBN: 9783031818080 (print)ISBN: 9783031818097 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:uu-552026DiVA, id: diva2:1942748
Available from: 2025-03-06 Created: 2025-03-06 Last updated: 2025-03-19Bibliographically approved

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