ABSTRACT
Ruether and Nasr have been and continue to be critical, dening voices in the eco-conversation in their respective religious and academic circles. In Islamic studies, Nasr has been an environmental and philosophical voice from the 1960s to the present.2 Ruether’s works are foundational to ecofeminism and feminist theology in and beyond Christianity.3 Nasr and Ruether navigate between scientic and religious discourse, inherited and renewed religious thought, and the potential for interreligious dialogue. Both critique science when it reduces living beings to their component parts and utilitarian value, and oppose certain oppressive conditions found in scientic modernism.4 Further, both Nasr and Ruether highlight historical and contemporary perspectives on the sacred dimension of nature and humanity, articulating distinct yet comparable visions of resacralization. Both scholars oer microcosm-macrocosm imagery of humanity within sacralized nature, invite eco-ascetic practice, and reorient readers toward renewed relations to our human bodies and the irreplaceable earth. Although their works contain
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similarities, each scholar’s religious, historical, scholarly, and perspectival locations provide dynamic tensions that are worth exploring.
