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Unlearning through spirituality: Mongolian and Western animistic traditions as pathways to enhance sustainability

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Jesse Segura
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Julien‐François Gerber
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Filka Sekulova
DOI:10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104296delete
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• The de-animation of nonhuman nature under capitalism led to alienation and ecological harm. • Animistic practices like Inner Mongolian Ovoo offerings express relational ontologies linking humans, land, spirits, and life. • Taking spiritual and animistic practices as an objective reality can help unlearn colonial-capitalist ways of being. • Science can be reimagined as an embodied experience where the material and spiritual converge. • Revitalizing Western animistic traditions opens paths for unlearning colonial-capitalist paradigms.
Keywords:
Animism
Posthumanism
Rituals
Sustainability
Spirituality
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Environmental Science and Policy
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Erasmus University Rotterdam
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