Concept of Sustainability in Abrahamic Religions

Khaleel, Fawad; Avdukic, Alija

Abstract

Leaders of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have publicly advocated action to endogenies sustainable development goals as part of their welfare programmes and policies. Within the Abrahamic religions a strong financial emphasises is placed on the necessity of implementing sustainable development goals and expectations in economic and financial practices alongside models such as crowd funding, asset-based financing, microfinance, aid programmes based on trust and waqf foundations, and charitable funding of green projects across the globe. There is ongoing empirical and theoretical research on the Abrahamic religions’ contribution to development and saving humanity represented in numerous publications. These works effectively produced by religious leaders, activist groups, economists, academics and professionals require well-substantiated conclusions from collated data to enable meaningful contributions resulting from these efforts towards promoting sustainable development goals.

• Acceptance Date: Dec 18, 2019
• Online Publication Date: Jul 29, 2021
• Publication Date: 2021
• Deposit Date: Feb 25, 2020
• Publicly Available Date: Jan 30, 2023
• Publisher: Routledge
• Pages: 69-80
• Book Title: Foundations of Sustainable Economy: Moral, Ethical and Religious Perspectives
• Chapter Number: 5
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003010579-7
• Keywords: Religious faith; Judaism; Christianity; Eastern Orthodoxy; Islam; SDGs; human-centric development
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2585714