In the spirit of the critique of categories in the study of religion as protective strategies, I wonder what nature…
Nature as protective strategy: The environment and a new normal
climate change
Revisited: The case of religious environmentalism
"Much has changed since this essay was published in 2008—much scary and depressing, but some—thank goodness—hopeful." In this update, Roger…
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’…
The environmentalist’s dilemma
Many of us who set out to study the environmentalism of religious people in real, lived contexts have struggled with…
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.…