Confessional Factor in the Development of Ecological Culture in Modern Society

Abstract

The rise of environmentalism and the approval of the concept of a "green" society and a green economy is, according to the authors' position, the state of a post-secular society in which confessionality is perceived as a cultural and historical tradition associated with the past, the era of consumer consciousness in relation to nature. In this context, the configurations of the confessional factor and environmental consciousness in Russia and Europe are consistently studied. It is concluded that the European ecological consciousness is non-confessional and is doomed to defeat in the future compared to the Islamic factor. In Russia, the attitude to environmental consciousness is determined by the alliance of the state and traditional confessions, which creates a corridor of opportunities within the confessional factor to create independent and complementary models of environmental consciousness