In this short forum, we have asked a handful of scholars to discuss the relationship between scholarship, public knowledge, and…
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 most recent book, Consecrating Science: Wonder, Knowledge, and the Natural World, was published by the University of California Press in 2017.
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…