Muslim Environmentalisms claims that the environment is an ethical idea. It is about environmental ethics; it is not a book…
Scales of justice for environmental ethics: A reply to Hennessy and Hoesterey
Book blog
Scholars from varying disciplines engage in critical discussions of recent books. Additionally, scholars introduce their books with an original essay or, occasionally, an original essay reviews an important new book, connecting it to other threads of conversation in the academy and beyond.
You can read our very first book forum, on Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age and the continued discussion around Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age here.
The environmentalist’s dilemma
Many of us who set out to study the environmentalism of religious people in real, lived contexts have struggled with…
Which politics of nature? A response to Crockford
[F]rom the vantage point of religious naturalism, I consider the “nature” of nature discourse in Veldman’s framing of white evangelicals’…
Nature as protective strategy: The environment and a new normal
In the spirit of the critique of categories in the study of religion as protective strategies, I wonder what nature…
The trouble with “true” environmentalism: Religion, nature, and normativity
While it is tempting to seek solutions to the environmental crisis through scholarship on religion and the environment, religious studies…
A prolegomenon to some future history
[I]t was pretty obvious that in this first piece of writing, we’d get about as far as trying to jettison…
Back to basics, or how to tell a new origin story
The implications of Dawn for the study of religion are vast. We could consider the evidence that Graeber and Wengrow…
The dawn of everything good?
The authors’ message is a hopeful one: that humans aren’t predetermined by our ecological conditions or by teleological or evolutionary…
In the Garden
Does Adam and Eve’s disobedience indelibly inscribe this freedom, and freedom as such, into our habits of thought—for what disobedience…
Searching for better questions (while building a better world)
In Graeber and Wengrow’s book, as in my teaching practices, the questions are difficult not because they need to prove…