[I]t was pretty obvious that in this first piece of writing, we’d get about as far as trying to jettison…
Lisa H. Sideris
Lisa H. Sideris is a professor of religious studies and associate director of the Center for Religion and the Human at Indiana University. Her research focuses on environmental thought and ethics at the intersection of science and religion. She is author of Environmental Ethics, Ecological Theology, and Natural Selection (Columbia University Press, 2003) and coeditor of Rachel Carson: Legacy and Challenge (SUNY, 2008). Her book Consecrating Science: Wonder, Knowledge, and the Natural World was published by the University of California Press in 2017. In Fall 2021 she will join the Environmental Studies Program at University of California-Santa Barbara.
Nature and normativity: New inquiries into the natural world
The books selected for this forum traverse the fields of environmental studies, Islamic studies, and the philosophy of religion. They…
science
Science—Latin, scientia—can signify an integrated corpus of knowledge as well as a systematic method of study that enables humans to…
Believer, religious studies, and the public
In this short forum, we have asked a handful of scholars to discuss the relationship between scholarship, public knowledge, and…
Theologies of American exceptionalism: Moreton and Paarlberg
"For its proponents, Americans and perhaps others, Christian free enterprise is not a religion but a natural way of being,…
Cosmology and the environment
Can—and should—a scientific account of the universe function as a global myth? If so, what is the likely impact of…