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Deep Adaptation & its critics: a question of reality

Posted in Eco-culture, Spirit matter, tagged , , , , , , , , , on July 18, 2020 | 6 Comments »

I’ve long been receptive to the idea that we need a spiritual, or even a religious, movement to address the climate crisis. Of course, I define both “spiritual” and “religious” quite broadly, and am well aware of how both terms have been shaped within histories that are Eurocentric and dominated by monotheistic, Christian, and more […]

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The (un)binding & (re)bounding of worlds

Posted in Anthropocene, Spirit matter, tagged , , , , , , , , on March 2, 2020 | Leave a Comment »

The following is a short essay I wrote for the Peder Sather/Reassembling Democracy workshop on “Environmental Change and Ritualized Relationships with the Other-than-Human World,” held at UC Berkeley this past December. There are physical boundaries between humans and specific nonhumans—fences, walls, windows (of homes, gardens, kennels, zoos, abbatoirs, safari vehicles, camera lenses, guns); and there […]

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The many ecologies of Laudato Si

Posted in Climate change, Politics, Spirit matter, tagged , , , on June 18, 2015 | 9 Comments »

Now that Laudato Si, the Papal Encyclical “On Care for Our Common Home,” is available for all to read, the punditocracy can debate it to their hearts’ content. As the most far-reaching statement by the single largest (relatively united) religious denomination on the planet, it is likely to have an immense impact on global conversations around […]

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Nature & the Popular Imagination

Posted in Academe, Eco-culture, tagged , on August 6, 2011 | 2 Comments »

I’m helping to organize this conference. Nature, Hollywood, eco-apocalypse, and the Malibu coast (the one that Mike Davis says we should let burn)… Can you resist? NATURE & THE POPULAR IMAGINATION The Fifth International Conference of the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture 8-11 August 2010, Pepperdine University, Malibu, California (USA) […]

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Religious (re)turns in the wake of global nature

Posted in Cultural politics, Spirit matter, tagged , , , , , on January 8, 2011 | 4 Comments »

I’m reorganizing the piece I wrote for the School of Advanced Research workshop on science, nature, and religion so that part of it will fit into the introduction of the book we are producing (which I’m co-writing with the workshop organizer and chair, Catherine Tucker) and the rest will make up the book’s concluding chapter. […]

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