Abstract

Professor Sardar developed the term Postnormal Times, which has emerged as a framework for understanding the complexities and contradictions of our time. One of the contradictions is that we live on a planet we are constantly destroying. How to change the situation is not just a billion-dollar question, but it is a vital question. Solving the ecological crisis is an essential question for our generation, but how can public attitudes toward nature be changed, and how can environmental culture be implemented into everyday practice? Sardar and many other researchers believe that improving the ecological situation depends on the revival of spiritual values. According to Prof. Sardar, the efforts of science, religion, and each of us are to achieve shared prosperity. In this regard, the issues of spiritual and moral education and the upbringing of the growing generation are more relevant than ever. This article aims to comprehensively analyse the ecological discourse and major religious practices in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) region. A systematic review of modern scientific publications, religious texts, and scholarly literature helps to comprehensively understand how these traditions conceptualise ecological culture and its role in their worldview. This allows for deeper analyses of common public responses to contemporary environmental challenges. By analysing these diverse perspectives, we seek to understand how these traditions conceptualise ecological culture and its role in their worldview. The article explores public responses to contemporary environmental challenges, provides a rationale for developing spiritual and moral education to ensure sustainable development and discusses how their teachings can be harnessed to promote sustainability and ecological awareness via schooling. Based on the study of the material in the article, it is concluded that we all, including the esteemed audience, need to introduce spiritual and moral education to form a responsible younger generation.

Keywords: Islam, Christianity, Postnormal Times, core values, religion, ecology