Ecotheology in the scientific publications referred to by "web of science" database
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https://doi.org/10.59531/ots.2023.1.1.1-27Keywords:
ecology, theology, care for Creation, scientometrics, environment, multidisciplinarity, global problems, ecological crisisAbstract
In this study, we have set the goal of giving an idea of how much and what can be known from the results of the interdisciplinary field of ecotheology based on the Web of Science (WoS) database. Based on our data, it is clear how strong a selection criterion WoS is, as only 166 out of over ten thousand scientific works (found on the Internet and searchable with such a keyword) are included in it. As a basic science, ecotheology - including human ecology - is an interdisciplinary science that examines ecological phenomena with the help of theological methods, i.e. it is part of ecology. On the other hand, it is also an interdisciplinary science (belonging to theology) that interprets the transcendent reality (reflected in the content of faith) in the situation of ecological systems, so the cooperation of experts from the two fields is absolutely necessary.
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