Abstract:

This article analyzes the relationships between science and religion and the origins of universe and the life in the context of sustainability. It is organized in five stages. The first is a brief retrospective on the importance of the evolution of genesis of the natural sciences to improvement the techniques and humanity. The second articulates science to religion emphasizing its contradictions, ruptures and links with sustainability. The third approach prioritizes the contours and convergences between science and religion to these broader seminal questions. In the fourth stage, the “nature × culture” confrontation is illustrated through scenarios that show the ecological, theological and scientific importance of Amazonia to the current civilizational framework driven by sustainability and complex philosophical issues. It also presents the importance of sustainability for citizenship education, mankind and the planet’s future. Finally, the fifth part of this article concludes with important considerations on the insertion of sustainability in social, economic, scientific and religious processes. As proposed by authors, this article has broadened the meaning of sustainability notion and reaffirmed the importance of science and religion for the mankind’s future. In this complex panel, this article puts new elements in the dialogue on science and religion, and the education for sustainability.

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