SPIRITISM AND THE ENVIRONMENT: THE SPIRITIST ENVIRONMENTALIST DISCOURSE AND ITS IMPLICATIONS

• DOI: 10.22533/at.ed.5583272303086

• Palavras-chave: Philosophy, Religion, Science, sustainability, spirituality.

• Keywords: Philosophy, Religion, Science, sustainability, spirituality.

• Abstract:

  The present research seeks to identify and analyze the emergence of a scientific and religious spiritist environmentalist discourse through a bibliographical survey that deals with ecology, environment and themes that relate to this subject in lectures, actions and spiritist books. Present its foundations, the relationship between the base works of the origin of spiritist philosophy and ecology, the reasons for this appearance and the implications of this new discourse for spiritist centers and their followers. Framing the spiritist environmentalist discourse according to the existing classifications in the academic environment. We approach the concept of environment and the classification of existing environmental discourses. We analyze the origin of Spiritism and its arrival in Brazil, its basic concepts and the emergence of the spiritist environmentalist discourse in the last two decades, the posture adopted for environmental preservation, the guidelines for its followers and its possible consequences.