Suchergebnisse

Elements of the natural world, such as mountains, rivers, and forests, are often seen as sacred in many cultural traditions. Recent conservation movements have even begun to draw on spiritual and religious beliefs to promote issues of environmental sustainability. The straightforward assumption in these cases is that sacred beliefs (compared with secular ones) will hold greater sway in alerting people to various environmental perils. However, environmental risk perception is a complex process, and we find that, in some cases, viewing natural resources as sacred may lead to a diminished perception of environmental risks such as pollution. Across three studies, we show that sacred beliefs may inure participants to the harmful effects of pollution in the Ganges River. Implications of these sacred value–based risk perceptions for conservation movements are discussed.

There is no denying the fact that Indian cinema has always followed print and the written works by the major authors of different ages of literature. Later, Cinema emerged as a potent medium of expression of literary works and also of cross-cultural parleys and a platform for evocative discussions pertaining to hegemonies and politics. The present paper studies astonishing similarities and comparison between the Indian film Haider directed by Vishal Bhardwaj and Hamlet written by Shakespeare. The movie is an intriguing film on revenge, love and about the Kashmir Valley. The paper also encapsulates and comments upon the ability of the cinema to render the human experiences in a unique way through its technocratic quotient and imagistic jugglery which enthralls the audience like literature.