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56 JUDIT FARKAS given rise to a new discipline for the study of the relationship between humans and their environment called human ecology." (Mészáros 2010: 17). " Global ecology is concerned with the general guestions of the relationship between the Earth and the human being, and their interaction. The issues it looks into in depth concern the fundamental connections between humanity and the environment: What changes have people caused on Earth? This is first of all a guestion for the natural sciences. We must inventory the major changes brought about by humankind. - What are the social conseguences of these changes? The analysis of this guestion belongs to the social sciences’ sphere of interest. - What is the social cause for the changes brought about by humankind? The point is to determine which social forces are at work that motivate humans to generate or perform the transformations. This issue belongs primarily to the social sciences. - How could the changes and processes unacceptable for sustainability be prevented, stopped, altered? Answering this question requires scientific, technological and social scientific knowledge in all actual cases” (Kiss 2012: 17). Environment: “The environment is the totality of factors that surround humanity, an individual or group. The notion of environment therefore includes all aspects that determine the surroundings of a human being, be they of natural or artificial origin, or related to social embeddedness.” (Kiss 2012: 11-12). Religion: “|...] the interpretation of religion as a social phenomenon differs according to diverse anthropological theories and trends; it is currently seen as a force of cohesion keeping society together (Durkheim), or as a model of reality surrounding the human being and of the life to be lived in it (Geertz, Rappaport), or as a means of power to guilefully maintain the social hierarchy (Bloch), or again, as a theoretical system which makes human beings’ existential fears bearable (Tylor), or once again, as the projection of human thinking (Lévi-Strauss, Douglas) or, for that matter, of human desires and fears (Freud) (Hesz 2014: 220). als o stressed the environmental risks and the importance of promoting ecohttps://www.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/messages/peace/documents/hf_ben-xvi_ mes_20091208_xliii-world-day-peace.html https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/encyclicals/documents/papa-francesco_20150524_ enciclica-laudato-si.html
