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Educação ambiental no Rincão Gaia: pelas trilhas da saúde e da religiosidade numa paisagem ecológica

2010; Editora da Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (EDIPUCRS); Volume: 33; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

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Carlos Alberto Steil, Isabel Cristina de Moura Carvalho, Érica Onzi Pastori,

Religion, Ecology, and Ethics

This paper focus the relationship among ecology, religion, and health based on a phenomenological ethnography. Merleau-Ponty, Thomas Csordas and Tim Ingold are the main authors for the theoretical and methodological references. The place of this ethnography was the Rincao Gaia, the rural place of Gaia Foundation, an NGO founded by the environmentalist Jose Lutzenberger. Located in Pantano Grande, 120 km from Porto Alegre (RS), the Rincao Gaia is the local where occur educational trails, environmental education, workshops related to the ecological theme and touristic activities. The article takes the Rincao Gaia as a landscape that combines environmental learning with experiences of religion, health and healing.