Promoting Ecological Civilization through Religious Prophetic Communication: An Interreligious Framework

Anthony Le Duc

In Religion, Culture, and Ecological Flourishing in Asian Contexts. Edited by Anthony Le Duc. Bangkok: ARC, 2025
pp. 239–261

DOI: 10.35534/ecolciviliz.2024.10010

This is an open access article under the CC BY license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

This article was previously published in Ecological Civilization 1, no. 4 (2024): 10010.

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