Word: tuckers
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...Tucker said there is a wide range in environmental perceptions across these faiths--from the "deep ecology" of Jainism to the utilitarian outlooks of Western religions--but that religions beliefs can be adaptable to evolving attitudes about the environment...
...Tucker said looking to existing beliefs in this way--"exploring resources within the tradition"--are one crucial way to help clarify the relationship between religions and the environment...
Paraphrasing Thomas Berry, who she cited as an intellectual inspiration for the series, Tucker said "religions have developed moral codes for suicide and homicide but not biocide or geocide...
...Tucker explained that while the conferences were attended mostly by academics, the ultimate goal is for their findings to be adopted by religious leaders...
...hope is to have some future coalition between religion and ecology," she said. Religion doesn't have to be "marginalized and moralistic, but integrated with key disciplines that have been working on the environment," Tucker said...