Environmentalism in Princess Mononoke (part 1 of environmentalism in anime)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uC9yw7FHGaE - 8:27
Last week, I finished a course in my graduate school program about World Religions. In the last
two weeks of this course, we focused on indigenous spirituality. There was another student in this
course with me who talked to me about my interest in anime, which I brought up in a previous course
that I also happened to be in with this other student (we don't always take our courses in this program
with the same people). This other student talked to me about the anime film Princess Mononoke,
which is one I've never seen before, as well as a lot of other anime films. Considering what we
were talking about at the time, it made sense that Princess Mononoke would come up. Like this film,
indigenous spirituality also stresses the importance of the environment, specifically through
environmentalism, which is also seen in the video for this reflection.
In the first week of our focus on indigenous spirituality, I made a comment in our discussion for the
week about indigenous spirituality that even if this spirituality is dying out, we can still learn from it,
which is essentially what this film, as well as the video about it in this reflection, is saying. We should
be learning from what we can still see and do, even, and especially, with what is happening with our
world now, and making changes because of that, which is what environmentalism is all about.
Last week, I finished a course in my graduate school program about World Religions. In the last
two weeks of this course, we focused on indigenous spirituality. There was another student in this
course with me who talked to me about my interest in anime, which I brought up in a previous course
that I also happened to be in with this other student (we don't always take our courses in this program
with the same people). This other student talked to me about the anime film Princess Mononoke,
which is one I've never seen before, as well as a lot of other anime films. Considering what we
were talking about at the time, it made sense that Princess Mononoke would come up. Like this film,
indigenous spirituality also stresses the importance of the environment, specifically through
environmentalism, which is also seen in the video for this reflection.
In the first week of our focus on indigenous spirituality, I made a comment in our discussion for the
week about indigenous spirituality that even if this spirituality is dying out, we can still learn from it,
which is essentially what this film, as well as the video about it in this reflection, is saying. We should
be learning from what we can still see and do, even, and especially, with what is happening with our
world now, and making changes because of that, which is what environmentalism is all about.
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