A participatory action research on the care for water and life on Earth: a case study of interreligious and intercultural engagements in the time of the pandemic in Thailand

Rey Ty

doi:10.7213/cd.a9n15p156-176

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This article presented a report on an ongoing research project that integrates culture, religion and the environment. Dialectically, the Bible guides this study in the same way that this project responded to the water crisis and the environmental realities obtaining in the real world today. The paper problematizes the lack of direct citizen action on the burning issue of caring for water and life on Earth. Specifically, this article presented a case study in Thailand that deals with a community participatory action research that involves environmental advocacy in the classroom at the university level on the one hand and environmental care through a planting project with the local intercultural and interreligious community on the other hand. The pandemic determines the ebb and flow of the progress of the project, including its sustainability.

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Este artigo apresenta o relato de um projeto de pesquisa em andamento que integra cultura, religião e meio ambiente
1 PURPOSE OF THE STUDY Based on the forgoing research questions, the purpose of this project is to reflect upon the teachings in the Bible about caring for water and life on Earth, the current situation of the natural world in relation to human society, and the courses of action that the community participatory action research undertakes dialectically in response to the current situation of
This article replied to the second research, we observed the social realities in the world today, in which water crisis is a reality today due to several factors

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Este artigo apresenta o relato de um projeto de pesquisa em andamento que integra cultura, religião e meio ambiente. Thailand in general is an open society that accepts diversity with limitations. In such a predominantly Theravada Buddhist country, everyone accepts Buddhism as a way of life, regardless of your personal religious affiliations. People from the majority population in a given society assumes that their culture is the normal culture. They feel that they do not have the need to learn about the cultures of people of different backgrounds. In this way, the minority is marginalized and made invisible. The project will try to include people of various cultural backgrounds in the nearby areas

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