Relationality and Revelation: Early Hindu Ecological Visions

This article, titled Relationality and Reverence: Hindu Ecological Visions, for the Special Issue on “Hinduism, Jainism, Yoga Ecology”, edited by Christopher K. Chapple, focuses relationship of early texts (Samhitas Upanishads) to natural world. In relation this effort, it is first necessary recognize value that ecotheologians confer recovery epistemologies respect earth’s ecosystems recontextualizing theoethics theopraxis a viable future. The fabric thought, from its inception, has contained strands which have been informed deep reverence for, profound intimacy with, Much perception practice become attenuated in modern era. paper will seek draw attention some key principles perspectives within textual traditions can should be ecotheologically re-evisioned ecosystemic societal sustainability “global” ethos.