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Welcome to the new Yale Forum Blog!
We will be sharing a variety of original content including interviews, reviews, reports from the field, new and enhanced resources on the Forum website, content from our new video podcast series, FORE Spotlights, and much more.
Check back every Tuesday and Thursday for new content.
In February, we shared news of the Faith and Climate Change event happening in Charleston, North Carolina, hosted by the Charleston Interreligious Council. That event took place last week, and three of the presentations that occurred during the event were recorded, and are now available to stream:
Keynote Speech: “The Integration of Ecospirituality and Ecojustice”
Mary Evelyn Tucker & John Grim, Yale University
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This is a clip from our episode featuring Aaron Weiss, PhD, Adjunct Professor of Philosophy and Religion at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, CA. He discusses the portability of Buddhism across cultures, as it has moved across landscapes and communities since its inception in ancient India. Important questions of cultural diffusion and cultural appropriation comes up along the way.
Details for the full episode are here.
You can watch the episode below or listen to it here.
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In honor of International Women's Day next week, we wanted to highlight some newly available resources in the area of ecofeminism and ecowomanism.
First, we wanted to let everyone know that we've added a new playlist to the Forum YouTube channel: Ecofeminism & Ecowomanism. This playlist contains videos of Vandana Shiva, Melanie Harris, Rosemary Ruether, and many more. We frequently add new content to our playlists, so check back periodocally for additional offerings. ...
This week's episode of Spotlights is a clip from our interview with Norman Wirzba, PhD, the Gilbert T. Rowe Distinguished Professor of Theology at Duke University, and Senior Fellow at Duke's Kenan Institute for Ethics. He reflects on the problematic assumptions of transhumanism and the importance of discerning the appropriate limits of technological and economic development. It is a timely topic, as this year (2022) marks the 50th anniversary of The Limits to Growth (1972), a report commissioned by the Club...
The 5th Annual James Sawers Jr. Interfaith Speaker Series will be held on March 3-5, 2022, and the keynote speakers this year are Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim. The events will be held in-person at the College of Charleston (various locations) and the Unitarian Church in Charleston (4 Archdale St.). But these events will also be accessible online via Zoom. It is free and open to all.
On March 3...
This week’s episode of Spotlights features Madeline Stevens, a graduate student in the Environmental Studies program at the University of Montana. She talks about the interdisciplinary work being done in her program as well as her personal and professional engagement with the intersection of religion and the environment, including the thesis she is completing on the relationship between faith and environmental education. We talk about the relationship between science and religion, Evangelical Christianity, curriculum development, personal transformation,...
The Call for Proposals for the American Academy of Religion's annual meeting in Denver is out, and the deadline to submit your paper or panel is March 1. So, we wanted to provide some details on the calls that relate to the intersection of religion and ecology. This year's theme is “Religion and Catastrophe.” General instructions on how to submit can be found here on the AAR site.
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This week's episode of Spotlights features Aaron Weiss, PhD, Adjunct Professor of Philosophy and Religion at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, CA. He talks about Tibetan Buddhism and philosophical perspectives on place, particularly in light of his recently defended dissertation, Buddhist Topology and the Practice of Lama Orgyan Khandro Norlha. Along the way, he also discusses questions of translation, cultural appropriation, and the complex challenges and responsibilities facing scholar-...
February is Black History Month in the United States. So, we at the Forum wanted to highlight some of the resources from our new religiously-engaged Ecojustice hub that focus on the history and pivotal role of African Americans in the birth and growth of the Ecojustice movement, as well as material addressing the disproportionate impact of environmental concerns on black...
In this week’s episodes of Spotlights, our host Sam Mickey discusses some of his work in the field of religion and ecology. While we normally put the spotlight on other academics, activists, and artists, some people have asked to hear more about the host’s perspective on things, so in this episode Sam discusses one of his books, On the Verge of a Planetary Civilization: A Philosophy of Integral Ecology (Rowman & Littlefield). Published in 2014, the questions and problems that book engages are still relevant to today’s...