Pluriverse: A Post-Development Dicctionary
Kothari, Ashish et al (eds)2019
A collective work, containing over one hundred essays on transformative initiatives and alternatives to the currently dominant processes…
Documentation centre
The Silene Documentation Center contains resources and documents about the spiritual and intangible cultural heritage linked to nature and natural heritage, from the local to the international level. Summaries are offered in four languages: English, Spanish, French, and Catalan, although the documents are in the original languages, accompanied by translations, when available.
It is the reference documentation center of the Group Specialist in Cultural and Spiritual Values of the World Commission for Natural Protected Areas, of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
- Declarations
Declarations of spiritual, scientific, political or social authorities in relation to the spiritual values of nature and the need to acknowledge them. - Information and sensitization
Tools for information, awareness and reflection on the cultural and spiritual values of nature and landscape in various traditions and worldviews. Pedagogical, didactic and training resources that help integrate spiritual values in the conservation of nature, including myths, tales, and legends. - Legal documents
Conventions, treaties, laws, regulations of any administrative, national or international scope. - Management documents
Actions that reinforce the preservation and enjoyment of the values of the intangible heritage of nature, in an integrated way with conservation, in all fields, including the evaluation of their effectiveness. Traditional systems of governance of territories and resources. - Planning documents
Plans and programs aimed at the conservation of nature, protected areas, habitats or species, that incorporate the spiritual and cultural dimensions. - Publications of Silene
Pedagogical, didactic and training resources: Plans or programmes, guides, manuals ... that help integrate religious values and protection of nature, e.g. myths, tales, stories and legends that show the spiritual values of nature. - Reflections on nature and spirituality
Contributions on the relationship between nature and spirituality, in any of the concepts and the meanings that both may have and in all its manifestations. - Reflections on science and spirituality
Contributions on the relationship between modern science and spirituality, or with the traditional sciences of nature and / or traditional ecological knowledge. - Strategical documents
Guidelines, strategies, recommendations or proposals, from congresses, symposia, seminars, workshops, etc. either international or national - Videographers
Movies, documentaries and interviews - Wisdom quotes
Quotes, aphorisms and advices about Nature from the spiritual Traditions of humankind.
Espacios de resistencia y activismo espiritual. La Geoética como ética de la Geosfera
Francesc Bellaubí2022
This essay seeks to stimulate awareness of spirituality, the dynamics of what gives life in the relationship between…
Fyodor Dostoievsky
The brothers Karamazov1880
Love all creation as a whole and in its elements, each leaf, each ray, the animals, the plants….
Tatanga Mani
Do you know that trees talk? Well, they do. They talk to each other, and they’ll talk to…
Representing Indigenous Sacred Land: The Case of the Niyamgiri Movement in India
Radhika Borde & Bettina Bluemling2021
This paper analyses the representations of the religiosity of the indigenous Dongaria Kondh community in India by international…
New Roles for Indigenous Women in an Indian Eco-Religious Movement
This article aims to study how a movement aimed at the assertion of indigenous religiosity in India has…
Books of Silene
Books coordinated or promoted by, or in which has collaborated, the Silene Association: Cultural and Spiritual Significance of…
Silene Association Statements
Statements made by Silene Association on the occasion of diverse events devoted to topics related to Silene’s mission:…
Arts, Religion and the Environment: Exploring Nature’s Texture
Sigurd Bergmann & Forrest Clingerman, eds.2015
Humans have been described as “meaning-making animals.” At the threshold of the Anthropocene, how might humans artistically envision…
The Jena Declaration: cultural and regional dimensions of global sustainability
Conference on Humanities and Social Sciences for Sustainability2020
Declaration adopted by the participants of the conference on “Humanities and Social Sciences for Sustainability“ (October 21–22, 2020),…