Many of us who set out to study the environmentalism of religious people in real, lived contexts have struggled with…
The environmentalist’s dilemma
climate change
Beyond belief? A reply to Berry and Crockford
One of the most difficult aspects of writing The Gospel of Climate Skepticism for me related to audience. The audience…
Orders of nature, norms of order
The sentiment that we are in a troubled, uncertain, and unusual period reverberates throughout media think pieces, anodyne corporate advertisements,…
Social climates beyond belief and doubt
Robin Globus Veldman’s The Gospel of Climate Skepticism is a timely intervention into longstanding debates about the relationship between religious…
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…
Climate strikes as rites of mourning the future
Climate strikes are rites of mourning the future, lamenting current catastrophes, and demanding world leaders to radically reduce carbon emissions.…
Beyond “Mother Goddess and God the Father”
To ponder divine motherhood is not as natural and comfortable a task for an ecofeminist scholar as one might imagine.…
Thinking and doing
The first thing I thought when I got the email last spring about the anniversary theme was, man, that’s a…
Pope Francis and intellectual humility
[Pope] Francis repeatedly emphasizes that ideas and realities must be in continuous dialogue. This is a refreshing and ever-timely affirmation…
“It was no way to die”
What will we make in future years of our decision to spend the last decade preoccupied with question about religion…