I see several old Southern Baptist and Methodist churches, some with graveyards, as I drive along in a small Southern…
Spatial Islamophobia, conflict democracy, and Muslim cemeteries as place-making for the future
environment
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…
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 everyday ecology of antiblack religion
I have been confounded by the similarities between how white Christian reformers understood blackness and how those same assumptions are…
Scales of justice for environmental ethics: A reply to Hennessy and Hoesterey
Muslim Environmentalisms claims that the environment is an ethical idea. It is about environmental ethics; it is not a book…
Ethical response and the environmental humanities
Gade approaches the question of justice as a scholar of the history of religions and environmental studies. A study of…
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…
“Citizen science,” environmental action, and religious pluralism
I joined Restoring Eden as a participant observer in 2016, soon after they carried out a series of citizen science…
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.…
Indigenous protective occupation and emergent networks of spirited refusal
The spirited refusal of conceited and deaf forms of state secularity is on stark display in many contemporary protest movements. This is…