Abstract

On the grounds of the analysis of a corpus of discourses produced by political, intellectual and religious actors jointly engaged in a (political) debate on ecology, this papers attempts to shed light on some of the reasons for this infatuation, as well as on the discursive strategies used by various social and political actors, in the context of contemporary France, and based on opinions expressed publicly on widely circulated media, audio-visual or on the Internet. The aim is to highlight the logics of political positioning behind the ever-increasing referentiality of religion in ecological debates, and of ecology in religious discourse.