Our in-depth study of 12, spiritual but not religious (SBNR), participants arrested to protect nature as sacred presents a case to consider the religious and spiritual meanings of contemporary environmental and ecology movements. Through a lived religious approach to participants’ narratives of environmental justice (ENVJ) activism, this paper identified four themes— reconstructing self and nature, re - envisioning social and moral life, living with vulnerability, and practices of spiritual and cultural work —whose meanings evidenced transformative spiritual effects on participants identity, ethics, coping, and ways of participating in society. Findings present a case to argue that although ENVJ activism resembles a SBNR phenomenon and satisfies criteria of an implicit religion, it most closely aligns with a contemporary nature religion whose substantive essence is an immanent sense of nature as sacred.

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环境正义行动主义：一种变革性的当代自然宗教

我们对 12 位精神而非宗教 (SBNR) 的深入研究，参与者因保护自然为神圣而被捕，提出了一个案例，以考虑当代环境和生态运动的宗教和精神意义。通过对参与者环境正义 (ENVJ) 行动主义叙事的生动宗教方法，本文确定了四个主题——重建自我和自然、重新构想社会和道德生活、脆弱的生活以及精神和文化工作的实践——其含义证明了对参与者身份、伦理、应对和参与社会方式的变革性精神影响。调查结果提出了一个案例，即尽管 ENVJ 激进主义类似于 SBNR 现象并满足隐性宗教的标准，