Abstract

DONOSO ACEITUNO, Arnaldo. "Nature defeated by man gives rise to gods": Eco-spirituality in the Ecological Thought of Luis Oyarzún. La Palabra [online]. 2022, n.44, 03.  Epub Oct 23, 2022. ISSN 0121-8530.  https://doi.org/10.19053/01218530.n44.2022.14069.

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.

Keywords : eco-spirituality; ecological thinking; nature; pilgrimage; silence.

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