The Spirits of the Great Green Wall in Senegal: Spirituality, Ecology, and Secularization (2021)
Louveau, Frédérique (Author)
Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture
Volume: 15
Issue: 3
Pages: 368-389
This article offers an ethnographic study of the involvement of a controversial modern Japanese religious movement, Sukyo Mahikari, within the state-led pan-African reforestation project known as the Great Green Wall. The author argues that the members’ environmental efforts against desertilcation and climate change bring together so-called ‘religious’ and ‘secular’ actors. She shows how the oflcial recognition of Sukyo Mahikari as a valuable partner of the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development of Senegal blurs the boundaries between the political, environmental, and religious spheres thanks to a ‘working misunderstanding’, an expression coined by Marshal Sahlins, thereby overcoming different framings in their relation to nature. This contribution examines the conditions that have facilitated the simultaneous secularization and spiritualization of ecology in the Senegalese context.
...MoreSimilar Citations
Article
Mathieu Gervais;
(2021)
The Spiritualization of Ecology and (De)politicization
(/isis/citation/CBB370840329/)
Chapter
Blavascunas, Eunice;
(2013)
Signals in the Forest: Cultural Boundaries of Science in Białowieża, Poland
(/isis/citation/CBB001420344/)
Book
Hays, Samuel P.;
(2007)
Wars in the Woods: The Rise of Ecological Forestry in America
(/isis/citation/CBB000850767/)
Article
Langston, Nancy;
(2009)
Paradise Lost: Climate Change, Boreal Forests, and Environmental History
(/isis/citation/CBB000932650/)
Book
Daws, Gavan;
Fujita, Marty;
(1999)
Archipelago: The islands of Indonesia from the nineteenth-century discoveries of Alfred Russel Wallace to the fate of forests and reefs in the twenty-first century
(/isis/citation/CBB000111078/)
Book
Nelson, Arvid;
(2005)
Cold War Ecology: Forests, Farms, and People in the East German Landscape, 1945--1989
(/isis/citation/CBB000772798/)
Book
Chase, Alston;
(1995)
In a Dark Wood: The Fight Over Forests and the Rising Tyranny of Ecology
(/isis/citation/CBB000501916/)
Book
Ajani, Judith;
(2007)
The Forest Wars
(/isis/citation/CBB000850016/)
Article
Wellock, Thomas R.;
(2010)
The Dickey Bird Scientists Take Charge: Science, Policy, and the Spotted Owl
(/isis/citation/CBB001021186/)
Article
Peltola, Taru;
(2007)
Business on the Margin: Local Practices and the Politics of Forests in Finland
(/isis/citation/CBB001031203/)
Article
Irene Becci;
Christophe Monnot;
Boris Wernli;
(2021)
Sensing ‘Subtle Spirituality’ among Environmentalists: A Swiss Study
(/isis/citation/CBB336752522/)
Article
Roberts, Jason P.;
(2015)
“Fill and Subdue”? Imaging God in New Social and Ecological Contexts
(/isis/citation/CBB001552871/)
Article
Woodhouse, Keith M.;
(2009)
The Politics of Ecology: Environmentalism and Liberalism in the 1960s
(/isis/citation/CBB001032522/)
Article
Burgmann, Verity;
(2008-9)
The Green Bans Movement: Workers' Power and Ecological Radicalism in Australia in the 1970s
(/isis/citation/CBB001032526/)
Book
West, Paige;
(2006)
Conservation is Our Government Now: The Politics of Ecology in Papua New Guinea
(/isis/citation/CBB000772104/)
Book
Robert Waide;
Sharon Kingsland;
(2021)
The Challenges of Long Term Ecological Research: A Historical Analysis
(/isis/citation/CBB113405116/)
Article
Parikka, Jussi;
(2013)
Insects and Canaries: Medianatures and Aesthetics of the Invisible
(/isis/citation/CBB001320127/)
Article
Hedin, Lars O.;
(2012)
F. Herbert Bormann (1922--2012)
(/isis/citation/CBB001320470/)
Article
Lave, Rebecca;
Doyle, Martin;
Robertson, Morgan;
(2010)
Privatizing Stream Restoration in the US
(/isis/citation/CBB001034682/)
Book
Irus Braverman;
(2023)
Settling Nature: The Conservation Regime in Palestine-Israel
(/isis/citation/CBB991986388/)
Be the first to comment!