{"id":69197,"date":"2018-12-04T02:08:11","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T01:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dandavats.tumblr.com\/post\/180773455111"},"modified":"2018-12-04T02:08:11","modified_gmt":"2018-12-04T01:08:11","slug":"god-and-smog-conference-promotes-environmental-action-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=69197","title":{"rendered":"God and Smog Conference Promotes Environmental Action in…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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God and Smog Conference Promotes Environmental Action in Religious Communities.
\nAbout 150 students, professors and other interested persons attended a one-day open conference at Utah State University on October 18th entitled \u201cGod and Smog \u2013 The Challenge of Preserving our Planet.\u201d
\nSubtitled \u201cScholars and Religious Leaders Confront the Issues,\u201d the event was organized by USU\u2019s Religious Studies Program, headed by Director Dr. Ravi Gupta (Radhika Ramana Das).
\nIn the afternoon, a separate panel of religious leaders spoke, including a senior leader of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; a Reverend from the Episcopal Church; a monk from the Tibetan Buddhist tradition; and ISKCON Communications Director Anuttama Das, representing Vaishnava Hinduism.
\nEach leader was asked to answer the questions: why is environmental stewardship an imperative in your tradition? And what theological resources does your tradition offer to support care for the earth.
\nTo read the entire article please click here: https:\/\/goo.gl\/sM17Eb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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God and Smog Conference Promotes Environmental Action in Religious Communities.
\nAbout 150 students, professors and other interested persons attended a one-day open conference at Utah State University on October 18th entitled “God and Smog – The Challenge of Preserving our Planet.”
\nSubtitled “Scholars and Religious Leaders Confront the Issues,” the event was organized by USU’s Religious Studies Program, headed by Director Dr. Ravi Gupta (Radhika Ramana Das).
\nIn the afternoon, a separate panel of religious leaders spoke, including a senior leader of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; a Reverend from the Episcopal Church; a monk from the Tibetan Buddhist tradition; and ISKCON Communications Director Anuttama Das, representing Vaishnava Hinduism.
\nEach leader was asked to answer the questions: why is environmental stewardship an imperative in your tradition? And what theological resources does your tradition offer to support care for the earth.
\nTo read the entire article please click here: https:\/\/goo.gl\/sM17Eb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10650,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[152],"class_list":["post-69197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recent-media","tag-nectar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69198,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69197\/revisions\/69198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}