River Goddesses, Personhood and Rights of Nature: Implications for Spiritual Ecology
River Goddesses, Personhood and Rights of Nature: Implications for Spiritual Ecology
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10.3390/rel10090502
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2019-09-01
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0.8
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Alley, Kelly D.
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作者：
Alley, Kelly D.
为自然指定权利是一种潜在的强有力的方式，可以开启世界各地关于自然保护的对话，并为以生态为中心的方法提供执行权力。使用基于权利的框架的实验将国内观点、世界观和实践与赋予自然权利的法律的理由结合起来。本文着眼于融合的法律的传统，宗教世界观，环境保护和宣传的做法在印度的背景下。它以印度的两个具体法律的案件为例，审查了最近指定恒河、亚穆纳河及其支流和冰川为法人的引人注目的裁决。虽然这些裁决在发布后几个月就被搁置了，但它们是自然、人和神的边界的一种有趣的弯曲，使恒河和亚穆纳成为脆弱的原型。本文使用访谈数据集中在这些案件和文件和档案数据，问法律的干预给予自然的权利，是否可以成为环境行动主义和精神生态的有效途径。该文件还评估了这些法律的案件是否促进了印度教民族主义或“Hindutva lite”。
Designating rights for nature is a potentially powerful way to open up the dialogue on nature conservation around the world and provide enforcement power for an ecocentric approach. Experiments using a rights-based framework have combined in-country perspectives, worldviews, and practices with legal justifications giving rights to nature. This paper looks at a fusion of legal traditions, religious worldviews, and practices of environmental protection and advocacy in the context of India. It takes two specific legal cases in India and examines the recent high-profile rulings designating the rivers Ganga, Yamuna, and their tributaries and glaciers as juristic persons. Although the rulings were stayed a few months after their issuance, they are an interesting bending of the boundaries of nature, person, and deity that produce Ganga and Yamuna as vulnerable prototypes. This paper uses interview data focusing on these cases and document and archival data to ask whether legal interventions giving rights to nature can become effective avenues for environmental activism and spiritual ecology. The paper also assesses whether these legal cases have promoted Hindu nationalism or 'Hindutva lite'.