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The term environmentalization has been used to refer the process of production and internalization of the environmental issue in the different spheres of social and moral instructions of individuals as an ethos. This process has been identified in both the emergence and practice of environmental issues, as well as in the reconfiguration of traditional practices and struggles that are transformed with the incorporation of environmental aspects, and is a new phenomenon (Carvalho and Toniol 2010; Carvalho et al. 2011). Otherwise, it is a phenomenon identified in the individual and collective practices of different social groups, who promote ecological ideas; although these are not traditional items on their agenda, these social groups now make environmental issues an ethical foundation, a political horizon, and a guide to their cultural and social practices.
The ecological foundation implied in the notion of environmentalizationrests on the ideas underway in the West –...
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Borges, M.G. (2015). Environmentalization. In: Gooren, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Latin American Religions. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08956-0_24-1
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