“Nature defeated by man gives rise to gods”: Eco-spirituality in the Ecological Thought of Luis Oyarzún

This paper reflects on the links between ecological thought and spirituality in the writing of the Chilean intellectual Luis Oyarzún (1920-1972). His prose discloses the tensions between spiritual and secular in a context of environmental crisis. I propose the term eco-spirituality to describe the a...

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Huvudupphovsman: Donoso Aceituno, Arnaldo Enrique
Materialtyp: Online
Språk:spa
Publicerad: Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia 2022
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Länkar:https://revistas.uptc.edu.co/index.php/la_palabra/article/view/14069
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Sammanfattning:This paper reflects on the links between ecological thought and spirituality in the writing of the Chilean intellectual Luis Oyarzún (1920-1972). His prose discloses the tensions between spiritual and secular in a context of environmental crisis. I propose the term eco-spirituality to describe the assemblage of the domains of ecological and spiritual. Oyarzún’s persona understands material nature as sacred and the human being as a custodian or a minuscule part that can merge with the whole. I examine two practices thematized in Oyarzún’s writing, pilgrimage and silence, consummations of his eco-spiritual experience.