Earth-centered religions
These include the aboriginal religions of the American
Indians and Africans, reconstructed versions of pre-Christian European
religions like Neo-Paganism and Wicca, and the beliefs of an occasional
Christian or Jew like the heretical Catholic theologian Matthew Fox. The
religions in this category can be thought of as the spiritual wing of the
environmental movement. They tend to be loosely organized and hard to pin
down, but for the most part they look on the Earth and its biosphere as
a living being to be worshipped and celebrated. They believe that mankind's
proper mission is to learn to live in harmony with the Earth and its life
forms, rather than to dominate them.