ABSTRACT
The research field of “religion and ecology,” even termed as “religion and the environment” or “religion, nature and culture,” behaves, due to its short but dynamic history, like a child still finding its feet. It can take the hands of its parents, theology and religious studies, and find support among older siblings such as philosophy, history, anthropology, biology, and others. Asymmetries, unbalances, and tumblings are natural, as are the joys of moving, seeing with different eyes and harvesting first fruits. Nevertheless, spreading one’s wings requires balance: between employing established theories and methods and forging new unproved ones in other lands. Given this open and fresh context, this chapter will not map the whole but focus on some selected creative developments in what emerges as a new and flourishing research landscape.
