Abstract
This research on ecoethics and religious thought was motivated by the wish to explore the possibilities of religious thought for modern environmental problems. In this paper the author concisely takes up the definition of ecoethics, a certain limitation of the approach to "global environmental issues," and the significance of studies on religious thought, which is often criticized for failing to act concretely. Then the author will extract religious thought that gives ecoethical value and sustains ecoactions, by examining three cases of environmental movements by spiritual leaders in Sagano, Takasago, and Yukuhashi. Though these studies it will be shown that persistent study and practice of good actions and good communication with diverse beings in the environmental world, which are transmitted in the manifold religious contexts from ancient times, can certainly change ethical value and ethical principles.
