Programme

The educational activity will focus in a first phase on the ways in which the relationship between humans and the natural environment is molded in different religious traditions. In a second phase, it will look at the ways in which the religious dimension can support law in achieving the goals of environmental sustainability. The third and final phase of the course will focus on the patterns of meaning, in many ways still anchored in religious knowledge, that the "ecological turn" requires to be developed as a prerequisite for a legal reformulation, on a global and local scale, of human subjectivity and the relations between it and the dynamics of the multiple environmental variables on which the existence of the human species depends.

Core Documentation

The course readings will be indicated during the lectures.

Type of evaluation

The oral test is aimed at ascertaining, through an oral interview, that the student has acquired the theoretical and practical knowledge related to issues concerning the relationship between ecology, religion and legal provisions adopted at the state, European and international levels.