Religion and Ecology

Dewey's Functionalist treatments of Religion reveal that the Science that is the primary rival of the latter is neither Physics nor Astronomy, but Ecology.  For, according to those treatments, Religion is a means of adjustment of an entity to an environment, e. g. praying for rain, or expressing thanks for a bountiful harvest.  But, the study of organism-environment interaction is Ecology, which, therefore, defines the context of the application of all scientific knowledge, including Physics and Astronomy.  Its challenge to Religion is perhaps most clearly expressed when the latter presumes to bypass it, with the positing of the existence of an entity that transcends it, i. e. the 'Soul'.  Accordingly, the doctrine that accepts no such premise, Pantheism, is the convergence of Religion and Ecology, i. e. further evidence of Spinoza's far-sightedness, which neither Dewey, nor most contemporary 'environmentalists', seems to appreciate.