"Religion and Ecological Citizenship in the Asian Context"
Submission Deadline: OCT 22, 2023
Guest Editors:
Dr. Kwangsuk Yoo
Institute for Religion and Civic Culture, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, 02447, Republic of Korea
Website: https://ircc.khu.ac.kr/aboutus04
E-Mail: ksyooii@khu.ac.kr
Interests: religious market theory; religion and civic movement; religion and ecology
Dr. Andrew Eungi Kim
Graduate School of International Studies, Korea University, Seoul, 02841, Republic of Korea
Website: https://faculty.korea.ac.kr/kufaculty/aekim1129/index.do
E-Mail: aekim@korea.ac.kr
Interests: sociology of religion; non-official religion; religious ethics and economy
Dear Colleagues,
Beyond a geographically or technologically limited evolution and innovation, the recent ecological crisis forces civil society to find a new way of coexisting with ecological civilization which is still controversial in its definition and nature. This special issue is designed to provide a more comprehensive and balanced discourse for scholars who is interested in the relationship between civil society and its ecological transition, especially in that the role of religion has not been examined enough to be applied to both the East and West. Secularity as an ideological basis of modern civil society contributed to a rapid growth and expansion of industrial civilization, but at the same time failed in controlling its self-destructive greed and profit-seeking. Such combination of secularity and civil society has obviously revealed their inability of coping with climate changes or disasters through reciprocal cooperation and strict self-control for the last hundred years.
For this reason, this issue focuses on finding a role and significance of religious factors in forming and maintaining ecological citizenship that involves a system of faith and practice strengthening ecological ethics and values in realities. Religion still functions as an inexhaustible source of new faith and conviction even in civil society, including an ecological self-realization, education, and experience of citizens. Above all, this new combination of religion and civil society around recent ecological transition urges scholars to make a more profound examination from the various perspectives. Although all authors interested in this problem are invited to this issue, regardless of their methodological perspectives or hypotheses, we Editors prefer articles reflecting political, social, and cultural specifications of each country in Asia. There is few existing research of describing or explaining an ecological citizenship and religious diversity in the Asian context. However, this issue eventually aims to discover an Asian type of the interaction between religion(s) and civil society in an ecologically transitional era.
We request that, prior to submitting a manuscript, interested authors initially submit a proposed title and an abstract of 400–600 words summarizing their intended contribution. Please send it to the Guest Editors (Email: ksyooii@khu.ac.kr) or to the Religions Editorial Office (religions@mdpi.com). Abstracts will be reviewed by the Guest Editors for the purposes of ensuring a proper fit within the scope of the Special Issue. Full manuscripts will undergo double-blind peer review.
Dr. Kwangsuk Yoo, Kyung Hee University
Dr. Andrew Eungi Kim, Korea University
Keywords: ecological civilization, ecological citizenship, religious diversity in Asia, religion and civil society, religion and ecology
"Religion and Ecological Citizenship in the Asian Context"
Submission Deadline: OCT 22, 2023
Guest Editors:
Dr. Kwangsuk Yoo
Institute for Religion and Civic Culture, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, 02447, Republic of Korea
Website: https://ircc.khu.ac.kr/aboutus04
E-Mail: ksyooii@khu.ac.kr
Interests: religious market theory; religion and civic movement; religion and ecology
Dr. Andrew Eungi Kim
Graduate School of International Studies, Korea University, Seoul, 02841, Republic of Korea
Website: https://faculty.korea.ac.kr/kufaculty/aekim1129/index.do
E-Mail: aekim@korea.ac.kr
Interests: sociology of religion; non-official religion; religious ethics and economy
Dear Colleagues,
Beyond a geographically or technologically limited evolution and innovation, the recent ecological crisis forces civil society to find a new way of coexisting with ecological civilization which is still controversial in its definition and nature. This special issue is designed to provide a more comprehensive and balanced discourse for scholars who is interested in the relationship between civil society and its ecological transition, especially in that the role of religion has not been examined enough to be applied to both the East and West. Secularity as an ideological basis of modern civil society contributed to a rapid growth and expansion of industrial civilization, but at the same time failed in controlling its self-destructive greed and profit-seeking. Such combination of secularity and civil society has obviously revealed their inability of coping with climate changes or disasters through reciprocal cooperation and strict self-control for the last hundred years.
For this reason, this issue focuses on finding a role and significance of religious factors in forming and maintaining ecological citizenship that involves a system of faith and practice strengthening ecological ethics and values in realities. Religion still functions as an inexhaustible source of new faith and conviction even in civil society, including an ecological self-realization, education, and experience of citizens. Above all, this new combination of religion and civil society around recent ecological transition urges scholars to make a more profound examination from the various perspectives. Although all authors interested in this problem are invited to this issue, regardless of their methodological perspectives or hypotheses, we Editors prefer articles reflecting political, social, and cultural specifications of each country in Asia. There is few existing research of describing or explaining an ecological citizenship and religious diversity in the Asian context. However, this issue eventually aims to discover an Asian type of the interaction between religion(s) and civil society in an ecologically transitional era.
We request that, prior to submitting a manuscript, interested authors initially submit a proposed title and an abstract of 400–600 words summarizing their intended contribution. Please send it to the Guest Editors (Email: ksyooii@khu.ac.kr) or to the Religions Editorial Office (religions@mdpi.com). Abstracts will be reviewed by the Guest Editors for the purposes of ensuring a proper fit within the scope of the Special Issue. Full manuscripts will undergo double-blind peer review.
Dr. Kwangsuk Yoo, Kyung Hee University
Dr. Andrew Eungi Kim, Korea University
Keywords: ecological civilization, ecological citizenship, religious diversity in Asia, religion and civil society, religion and ecology