DOCSLIB.ORG

Download Download

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Download Download [JSRNC 10.1 (2016) 117-126] JSRNC (print) ISSN 1749-4907 doi: 10.1558/jsrnc.v10i1.27519 JSRNC (online) ISSN 1749-4915 ___________________________________ REVIEW ESSAY Religious Ecology: A New Primer ___________________________________ Leslie E. Sponsel Department of Anthropology, University of Hawai`i, 2424 Maile Way – Saunders Hall 346, Honolulu, HI 96822-2223, USA [email protected] John Grim and Mary Evelyn Tucker, Ecology and Religion (Washington, DC: Island Press, 2014), x + 265 pp. (pbk), $30.00, ISBN: 13:978-1-59726- 707-6. Anyone who explores the subject of religion and ecology is likely to encounter the work of John Grim and Mary Evelyn Tucker, Senior Lecturers and Research Scholars at Yale University in the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Divinity School, and Department of Religious Studies. Grim and Tucker are editors of the benchmark book series on Religions of the World and Ecology from the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard University. Also, they are founders of the Forum on Religion and Ecology, and contribute guidance and content to its website and monthly newsletter. Their documentary llm, Journey of the Universe, with Brian Thomas Swimme of the California Institute of Integral Studies, won an Emmy award (Swimme and Tucker 2011a). There is a companion book with the same title (Swimme and Tucker 2011b) and a ten-hour DVD series comprised of interviews with leading authorities (Swimme and Tucker 2011c). Now to this far-reach- ing body of work they have added this new primer, Ecology and Religion. Tucker and Grim are among the foremost contributors to the emerging academic leld that they call religion and ecology. Like most of their work, this book is inspired by their former professor, mentor, and later colleague, Thomas Berry, founder of the History of Religions Program at Fordham University (Berry 1999, 2006a, 2006b, 2009, 2014). Accordingly, Grim and Tucker approach the subject of religion and ecology mostly © Equinox Publishing Ltd 2016, 415 The Workstation, 15 Paternoster Row, Sheffield S1 2BX. 118 Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture from a historical perspective with an emphasis on the worldviews and values of the so-called world religions as well as on cosmology. This is a student-friendly book. It is clearly and concisely written with an introduction, ten chapters, and an epilogue. Included are substantial notes and an extensive bibliography. Moreover, there is a set of provo- cative ‘Questions for Discussion’ for each chapter, an especially useful glossary, a long list of online resources, and seven appendices with key documents. The introduction and Chapters 1–5 develop the overall conceptual framework of religious ecology. Chapters 6–9 successively survey the religious ecology of Christianity, Confucianism, Indigenous Traditions, and Hinduism. Chapter 10 focuses on the Earth Charter, while the epilogue looks at the need for creating ecological cultures in the future. In the introduction, Grim and Tucker sketch some of their personal history in contributing to the development of the leld of religion and ecology, including Tucker’s experience in Japan and Grim’s experience with Native Americans. Furthermore, they discuss the continuing inmu- ence of Berry on their work. Then they outline the series of benchmark conferences on World Religions and Ecology that they facilitated at Harvard, which culminated in summaries in New York City at the American Museum of Natural History and the United Nations. The conferences at Harvard focused on retrieving environmentally relevant aspects of religious traditions and texts from Buddhism, Christi- anity, Confucianism, Daoism, Hinduism, Indigenous Cultures, Islam, Jainism, Judaism, and Shinto. These religions were explored in light of contemporary environmental concerns. Seven values that these religions share regarding nature were identiled: reverence, respect, reciprocity, restraint, redistribution, responsibility, and restoration. The authors note that the Harvard conferences were the main stimulus in the creation of the Forum on Religion and Ecology (FORE) and its website. Furthermore, they claim that FORE has become a new moral force for cultivating sustainability and a better future. It currently engages a network of more than 12,000 individuals and organizations in academia and beyond through a monthly email newsletter and other means. FORE was one major catalyst in generating a new leld of academic scholarship. Tucker and Grim also established a new inter- disciplinary MA degree program in religion and ecology, bridging the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies with the Divinity School at Yale University.1 1. Also see, for example, Bratton 2008; Jenkins and Chapple 2011; Sponsel 2007, 2014, 2015; Taylor 2005; and Tucker 2006, for overviews of the Àeld. © Equinox Publishing Ltd 2016. Sponsel Religious Ecology: A New Primer 119 In Chapter 1, to their credit, Grim and Tucker caution that religions can present serious obstacles to ecological resilience. For example, they can be conservative and thus resistant to considering environmental problems and pursuing action, intolerant of other religions and resistant to interfaith collaboration, and focused on other-worldly concerns and consequently disengaged socially and politically. Moreover, people of faith do not always follow their highest ideals. After the authors identi- led such obstacles, however, it would have been helpful for them to have suggested some remedies, as daunting as that may seem. They might also have noted that nature is not always benevolent, with natural hazards sometimes having a devastating impact on humans. The authors recognize that a broad range of individuals outside reli- gious organizations, including many environmentalists, nature writers, artists, and secular humanists, may share moral values and spiritual attitudes toward nature. However, they do not pursue this point further, although devoting a chapter to it would seem especially appropriate for a primer (see, e.g., Sponsel 2012 and Taylor 2010). Grim and Tucker acknowledge the diversity, complexity, ambiguity, and dynamism in religion. They briemy highlight a few perspectives on selected world religions. However, they caution that some that appear to be environ- mentally friendly, such as Confucianism and Daoism in China, have not prevented environmental degradation. The core of this book is Chapter 2, in which Grim and Tucker assert that religious ecology should connect people in healthy ways with their environment by orienting, grounding, nurturing, and transforming communities. Subsequently, each of these four processes in turn is high- lighted in Chapters 6–9, each using a different religion to make the point. Next they advance their main argument: Religious ecologies are ways of orienting and grounding whereby humans, acknowledging the limitations of phenomenal reality and the suffering inherent in life, undertake specilc practices of nurturing and transforming self and community in a particular cosmological context that regards nature as inherently valuable (p. 35). Although this delnition is rather involved, it perceptively encapsu- lates the four processes previously mentioned that are the core of this book. The authors emphasize that this delnition of religious ecologies imparts fresh meaning to the word ‘religion’ by implying a return to a relationship with numinous power through extending it to embrace the elemental wellsprings of life. The next chapter (3) provides a broad survey of the history of intel- lectual ideas about nature in Western philosophy and religion, drawing in particular on the classic studies by Peter Coates (1998), © Equinox Publishing Ltd 2016. 120 Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture Clarence Glacken (1973), and Donald Worster (1994), among other sources. Egerton (2012a, b) would have been very useful, as well as a more recent source. In Chapter 4 the authors discuss from a historical perspective how ecologists have studied and valued nature. Scientilc ecology is delned as: ‘the empirical and experimental study of the interactions of living and nonliving components of an ecosystem through energy mow and nutrient cycling’ (p. 62). Key concepts in biological ecology are con- sidered briemy in historical perspective, such as food chain, food web, niche, succession, climax, ecosystem, energy mow, and nutrient cycling. All of this is useful for readers who lack such background, even though superb surveys are readily available (e.g., Marten 2001). It seems to me that it would be desirable to explore in more detail the actual and potential interrelationships between biological ecology and religious ecology with some specilc examples (see, e.g., Uhl 2013). There is little scientilc ecology in the subsequent chapters on different religions. Instead, Grim and Tucker explain, ‘Religious ecologies are functional cosmologies that express an awareness of kinship with and dependence on nature for the continuity of all life. Religious ecologies, then, provide frameworks for exploring diverse religious worldviews, symbol systems, rituals, and ethics as developed in relation to the processes of Earth and of bioregions’ (p. 63). In Chapter 5 the authors describe some of the more important developments in the emerging leld of religion and ecology with a focus on retrieving, reevaluating, and reconstructing human–environment interrelationships toward developing ecological cultures for a more sustainable future. Grim and Tucker very usefully
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Mary Evelyn Tucker
    1 Mary Evelyn Tucker Yale University: School of Forestry and Environmental Studies Yale Divinity School Department of Religious Studies [email protected] EDUCATION: Columbia University, New York, N.Y. Ph.D., January 1985; History of Religions Area of Concentration: East Asia; Confucianism Fordham University, Bronx, N.Y. M.A., 1977; History of Religions Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan - Summers 1973, 1974 State University of New York, Fredonia, N.Y. M.A., 1972; English Trinity College, Washington, D.C. B.A., 1971; English and History (cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) Sophomore year in Oxford, England HONORARY DEGREES: Rosemont College, Rosemont, Pennsylvania, May 2014 University of Toronto, St Michael's, Toronto, Ontario, November 2012 Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, June 2012 California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, June 2005 ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS: Yale University, Senior Lecturer and Research Scholar, 2006- School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Divinity School, Religious Studies Department. Fellow, Saybrook College, Yale Princeton University, Currie C. and Thomas A. Barron Visiting Professorship in the Environment and Humanities, Princeton Environmental Institute, Fall 2012 Yale University, Institution for Social and Policy Studies, Center for Bioethics 2006- 2007 Visiting Professor Graduate Theological Union, University of California, Berkeley, 2004-2006, 2001-2002 Research Scholar Harvard Divinity School, Center for the Study of World Religions: 1997-1998 Research Associate 1995-1996 Senior Fellow 2
    [Show full text]
  • Introduction: the Emerging Alliance of World Religions and Ecology
    Emerging Alliance of World Religions and Ecology 1 Mary Evelyn Tucker and John A. Grim Introduction: The Emerging Alliance of World Religions and Ecology HIS ISSUE OF DÆDALUS brings together for the first time diverse perspectives from the world’s religious traditions T regarding attitudes toward nature with reflections from the fields of science, public policy, and ethics. The scholars of religion in this volume identify symbolic, scriptural, and ethical dimensions within particular religions in their relations with the natural world. They examine these dimensions both historically and in response to contemporary environmental problems. Our Dædalus planning conference in October of 1999 fo- cused on climate change as a planetary environmental con- cern.1 As Bill McKibben alerted us more than a decade ago, global warming may well be signaling “the end of nature” as we have come to know it.2 It may prove to be one of our most challenging issues in the century ahead, certainly one that will need the involvement of the world’s religions in addressing its causes and alleviating its symptoms. The State of the World 2000 report cites climate change (along with population) as the critical challenge of the new century. It notes that in solving this problem, “all of society’s institutions—from organized re- ligion to corporations—have a role to play.”3 That religions have a role to play along with other institutions and academic disciplines is also the premise of this issue of Dædalus. The call for the involvement of religion begins with the lead essays by a scientist, a policy expert, and an ethicist.
    [Show full text]
  • Mary Evelyn Tucker Senior Lecturer and Research Scholar, Yale University Friday, 25 October 3:00 P.M
    Environmental Ethics Initiative Lecture Series The Emerging Alliance between Ecology and Religion Mary Evelyn Tucker Senior lecturer and research scholar, Yale University Friday, 25 October 3:00 P.M. 238 HRCB Mary Evelyn Tucker is a senior lecturer and research scholar at Yale University, where she has appointments in the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, the Divinity School, the Department of Religious Studies, and the Center for Bioethics. Tucker teaches in the joint MA program in religion and ecology and directs the Forum on Religion and Ecology at Yale with her husband, John Grim. Her area of study is Asian religions. Her concern for the growing environmental crisis, especially in Asia, led her to organize, with Grim, a series of ten conferences on World Religions and Ecology at the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard (1995–98). Together they are series editors for the ten volumes from the conferences distributed by Harvard University Press. After the conference series, she and Grim founded the Forum on Religion and Ecology at a culminating conference at the UN in 1998. Tucker and Grim studied world religions with Thomas Berry and worked closely with him for some thirty years. She edited several of Berry’s books: the Great Work, Evening Thoughts, and the Sacred Universe. To bring Berry’s work forward, she has also worked closely with evolutionary philosopher Brian Thomas Swimme for some twenty-five years. They have collaborated together on the Journey of the Universe project. Tucker has been involved with the Earth Charter since its inception. She served on the International Earth Charter Drafting Committee from 1997–2000 and is a member of the Earth Charter International Council.
    [Show full text]
  • Teilhard Perspectives, Membership Info, Links, and a Brian Swimme Interview on Teilhard
    TEILHARD PERSPECTIVE Volume 44, Number 1 Spring 2011 Journey of the Universe Brian Thomas Swimme and Mary Evelyn Tucker The United Nations will show the film for World Environment Day on June 2nd - see Journey website for more information. In addition, a DVD multi-part educational series will be available in July. On the website can also be found a Film Trailer, and information about ordering. We offer a book précis, its contents, author bios, strong endorsements, and then introduce the film. The multimedia site includes a Gallery where amongst images by artist Mary Coelho can be found. On page 5 there is more about her work and own website. Journey of the Universe Book Synopsis Today we know what no previous generation knew: the history of the universe and of the unfolding of life on Earth. Through the astonishing combined achievements of natural scientists worldwide, we now have a detailed account of how galaxies and stars, planets and living organisms, human beings and human consciousness came to be. And yet . we thirst for answers to questions that have haunted Journey of the Universe will be published by Yale humanity from the very beginning. What is our place University Press in June. Written by the two vice in the 14-billion-year history of the universe? What presidents of the American Teilhard Association, it is roles do we play in Earth's history? How do we a poetic telling of the universe story in the genre of connect with the intricate web of life on Earth? Loren Eiseley. In Journey of the Universe Brian Thomas Swimme The project, which has unfolded creatively over and Mary Evelyn Tucker tell the epic story of the some years, aided by ATA president John Grim, universe from an inspired new perspective, weaving guided and mentored by Pierre Teilhard and Thomas the findings of modern science together with enduring Berry, extends much beyond this volume.
    [Show full text]
  • Ecology, Spirituality, & Religion
    Ecology, Spirituality, & Religion Recommended Reading List Abram, David. The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than- Human-World. New York: Vintage Books, 1996. Bauman, Whitney, Richard Bohannon, and Kevin O’Brien (eds.). Grounding Religion: A Field Guide to the Study of Religion and Ecology. New York & London: Routledge, 2011. Berkes, Fikret. Sacred Ecology. New York: Routledge, 2012. Berry, Thomas. The Great Work: Our Way into the Future. New York: Broadway Books, 2000. Gottlieb, Roger S. The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Ecology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. Grim, John and Mary Evelyn Tucker. Ecology and Religion. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2014. Haberman, David L. 2006. River of Love in an Age of Pollution: The Yamuna River of Northern India. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. Kearns, Laurel and Catherine Keller, eds. Eco-Spirit: Religions and Philosophies for the Earth. Bronx, NY: Fordham University Press, 2007. LaDuke, Winona. Recovering the Sacred: The Power of Naming and Claiming. Brooklyn, NY: South End Press, 2005. Macy, Joanna. World as Lover, World as Self. Courage for Global Justice and Ecological Renewal. Berkeley, CA: Parallax Press, 2007. Maathai, Wangari. Replenishing the Earth: Spiritual Values for Healing Ourselves and the World. New York & London: Doubleday, 2010. Merchant, Carolyn. The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution. New York: HarperCollins, 1990. Mickey, Sam. Whole Earth Thinking and Planetary Coexistence: Ecological Wisdom at the Intersection of Religion, Ecology, and Philosophy. New York: Routledge, 2015. Muir, John. Wilderness Essays. Layton, UT: Gibbs Smith, 2015. Reuther, Rosemary Radford. Integrating Ecofeminism, Globalization, and World’s Religions.
    [Show full text]
  • Living Earth Community ICKEY Multiple Ways of Being and Knowing , T EDITED by SAM MICKEY, MARY EVELYN TUCKER, and JOHN GRIM UCKER
    M Living Earth Community ICKEY Multiple Ways of Being and Knowing , T EDITED BY SAM MICKEY, MARY EVELYN TUCKER, AND JOHN GRIM UCKER If you are looking for reasons to believe that humans can fi nd a way through the unfolding catastrophe, this is your book, your hope, your answer. , — Kathleen Dean Moore, author of Great Tide Rising and Wild Comfort AND Why are we in such a predicament? The contributors to this volume trace our discontents to a kind of G cultural amnesia. In our rush to progress, we have forgot en deeper sources of wisdom, and with it the calm awareness that humankind is a part of the larger community of life in the unfolding cosmic story. RIM We’ve been looking for meaning, as it were, in all the wrong places. From varied perspect ves, the ( essays here shed the bright light of remembrance and reverence. EDS — David Orr, author of Hope is an Imperat ve, Down to the Wire, and Ecological Literacy ) L This book is a celebra� on of the diversity of ways in which humans can relate to the world around them, and an invita� on to its readers to partake in planetary coexistence. Innova� ve, informa� ve, and highly accessible, this interdisciplinary anthology brings together scholars and educators across the sciences and humani� es, in a collabora� ve eff ort to illuminate the diff erent ways of being in the world and the diff erent kinds of knowledge they entail – from the ecological knowledge of indigenous communi� es, to the scien� fi c knowledge of a biologist, and the embodied knowledge communicated through storytelling.
    [Show full text]
  • Rallying Believers to Pax Gaia
    Rallying Believers to Pax Gaia Ifyou 're pro-God,you must be Green, suggests Yales Farum on Religion and Ecology By Neil Maghami Summary: The Forum on Religion and Ecol­ ogyat Yale Universitycalls itselfthe "largest international multireligious project of its kind. " Its organizers characterize it as an academic initiative, but a careful inspection reveals that it is more of an effortto prosely­ tize-with a specificgoal of rallying religious believers to Big Greens banner. ealthy foundations, together with the organizations funded by those Wfoundations, make up the infra­ structure of the environmentalist movement. Without that infrastructure, the movement would be just another vocal special-interest group. Leveraging foundation grants to fuel its net­ work of tax-exempt 50l(c)(3) organizations, Big Green wields enormous power. It influ­ Mother Earth; Grim and Tucker; and a scene from a YouTube video featuring Thomas Berry. ences government regulation, intervenes in more on religious environmentalism, see the that thirty years of good science could political campaigns, lobbies elected officials, December 2013 Green Watch and the June address these problems. I was wrong. and alters, often directs, public policy-not 2009 issue of our sister publication Organi­ The top environmental problems are just in Washington, D.C., but through inter­ zation Trends.] selfishness, greed and apathy, and to national bodies like the United Nations. deal with these we need a cultural and Yet that isn't enough. For Big Green, it isn't Watch out for FORE spiritual transformation." sufficient to have influence over policy and The article on "Spiritual Ecology" in the Speth, by the way, was founderof the World policymakers.
    [Show full text]
  • Thomas Berry Engaged Legacy Projects
    Updated 8/20/21 Thomas Berry Engaged Legacy Projects The work of Thomas Berry has inspired the development of many ecological projects and learning centers in the United States, Canada, Ireland, England, and Australia. The list compiled here is by no means exhaustive, but indicates some of the range of people, programs, centers, and institutes that Berry’s ideas influenced. We welcome additions. They can be sent to Elizabeth McAnally. Thomas Berry’s Legacy in Academia Center for the Story of the Universe – 1990 The Center for the Story of the Universe is directed by Brian Thomas Swimme, professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies and co-writer of Journey of the Universe. As it states on the Center’s website, “The mission of the Center for the Story of the Universe is to redirect the current self-destructive trajectory of society into one whose actions can realize a vibrant community that transcends individual, human and geo- political boundaries. The Center achieves this mission by assisting people in making the transition from modernist forms of consciousness to the emerging forms resonant with an ecological civilization. Through the production and distribution of DVDs, the Center for 2 the Story of the Universe provides educational processes for exploring and embodying the new cosmological understanding of the universe, earth and human. Elliott Allen Institute for Theology & Ecology, University of Toronto - 1991 The Elliott Allen Institute for Theology & Ecology (EAITE) was launched in 1991 and became a major center in Canada for study and research on this topic with a special focus on Thomas Berry’s work.
    [Show full text]
  • Participant Biographies
    Journey of the Universe Yale University, March 24-26 2011 Participant Biographies Jean E. Thomson Black is Executive Editor for Science and Medicine Acquisitions at Yale University Press, where she manages trade, scholarly, professional, reference, and course books in the life, physical, environmental, and cognitive sciences, as well as consumer health, history of science and medicine, and environmental history. Series for which she has responsibility include the Terry Lectures, Yale Agrarian Studies, and Yale University Press Health & Wellness (the imprint for consumer health). Many of her titles have won prizes from the American Association of Publishers Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division, the American Medical Writers' Association, the American Meteorological Society, and other organizations. She has worked at Yale University Press since 1990, and previously was employed for nearly 12 years by Academic Press, a publisher of scientific journals and books that is now part of Elsevier Science and Technology. Ms. Thomason Black was educated at Wellesley College (honors graduate and Sigma Xi), Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, and Rutgers University. She is a member of Sigma Xi, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Ecological Society of America, Appalachian Mountain Club, and Explorers Club (admitted as a member in 2006. Derek E.G. Briggs, G. Evelyn Hutchinson Professor of Geology and Geophysics at Yale University, has been Director of the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History since 2008. Briggs joined the Yale faculty in 2003. Except for a one-year term from 2001-2002 as a Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago, his prior appointments were in the UK.
    [Show full text]
  • Mary Evelyn Tucker
    1 Mary Evelyn Tucker Yale University: School of Forestry and Environmental Studies Yale Divinity School Department of Religious Studies [email protected] EDUCATION: Columbia University, New York, N.Y. Ph.D., January 1985; History of Religions Area of Concentration: East Asia; Confucianism Fordham University, Bronx, N.Y. M.A., 1977; History of Religions Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan—Summers 1973, 1974 Japanese religion, literature, and language State University of New York, Fredonia, N.Y. M.A., 1972; English Trinity College, Washington, D.C. B.A., 1971; English and History (cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) Sophomore year in Oxford, England HONORARY DEGREES: Hebrew College, Newton, Massachusetts, June 2019 Rosemont College, Rosemont, Pennsylvania, May 2014 University of Toronto, St Michael's, Toronto, Ontario, November 2012 Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, June 2012 California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, June 2005 ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS: Arne Naess Chair in Global Justice and the Environment, University of Oslo, Fall 2018 Yale University, Senior Lecturer and Research Scholar: School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Divinity School, Religious Studies Department, 2006 to present Fellow, Saybrook College, Yale, 2006-2019 Fellow, Timothy Dwight College, Yale, 2020- Princeton University, Currie C. and Thomas A. Barron Visiting Professorship in Environmental Humanities, Princeton Environmental Institute, Fall 2012 2 Yale University, Institution for Social and Policy Studies, Center for Bioethics: 2006-2007 Visiting
    [Show full text]
  • Mary Evelyn Tucker
    1 Mary Evelyn Tucker Yale University: School of Forestry and Environmental Studies Yale Divinity School Department of Religious Studies [email protected] EDUCATION: Columbia University, New York, N.Y. Ph.D., January 1985; History of Religions Area of Concentration: East Asia; Confucianism Fordham University, Bronx, N.Y. M.A., 1977; History of Religions Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan—Summers 1973, 1974 State University of New York, Fredonia, N.Y. M.A., 1972; English Trinity College, Washington, D.C. B.A., 1971; English and History (cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) Sophomore year in Oxford, England HONORARY DEGREES: Rosemont College, Rosemont, Pennsylvania, May 2014 University of Toronto, St Michael's, Toronto, Ontario, November 2012 Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, June 2012 California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, June 2005 ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS: Arne Naess Chair in Global Justice and the Environment, University of Oslo, Fall 2018 Yale University, Senior Lecturer and Research Scholar: School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Divinity School, Religious Studies Department. Fellow, Saybrook College, Yale 2006-present Princeton University, Currie C. and Thomas A. Barron Visiting Professorship in the 2 Environment and Humanities, Princeton Environmental Institute: Fall 2012 Yale University, Institution for Social and Policy Studies, Center for Bioethics: 2006-2007 Visiting Professor Graduate Theological Union, University of California, Berkeley: 2004-2006, 2001-2002 Research Scholar Harvard Divinity School, Center
    [Show full text]
  • John Allen Grim
    John Allen Grim [email protected] (office) Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies Yale Divinity School 195 Prospect Street, Rm 115 New Haven, CT 06520 (203) 436-5852, or 203-501-0936 Co-Director and Founder with Mary Evelyn Tucker of the Forum on Religion and Ecology 1998- Present http://fore.yale.edu Education: Ph.D., 1979, History of Religions, Fordham University, NY M.A., 1975, History of Religions, Fordham University, NY B.A., 1968, Theology and History, St. John's University, Collegeville, MN Academic Appointments: Yale University, New Haven, CT Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale Divinity School, Religious Studies Senior Lecturer, Research Scholar, 2007-Present Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, Environmental Ethicist in Residence Visiting Scholar, 2006-2007 Lecturer in Law, Yale Law School, 2015, 2017 Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA Research Scholar, 2001- 2002, 2004 - 2006 Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA Professor, Department of Religion, 1989-2005 Harvard Divinity School, Center for the Study of World Religions Senior Fellow, 1995-6, Research Associate 1997-8 Co-Director, Harvard Conference Series, “World Religions and Ecology,” 1996-1999 Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY Humanities Division, 1986-1989 Elizabeth Seton College, Yonkers, NY Associate Professor, 1977-1987 State University of New York at Stony Brook, NY Visiting Professor, Spring 1984, 1985 Maryknoll Graduate School of Theology, Ossining, NY Visiting Professor, 1980-1981 Fordham University, Bronx, NY Visiting Professor, 1979-1980 College of New Rochelle, NY Adjunct Lecturer, 1977-1980 St. Francis College, Brooklyn, NY Adjunct Lecturer, 1979 2 College of Mount St. Vincent, Bronx, NY Adjunct Lecturer, 1976-1979 Editorial Responsibilities: Series Editor with Mary Evelyn Tucker of Religions of the World and Ecology a ten volume series published by Harvard University’s Center for the Study of World Religions, and distributed by Harvard University, 1998-2004.
    [Show full text]