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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.
This week, to celebrate the spring equinox, we’re pleased to announce the new Forum homepage, featuring our partner organizations.
In May 2020, we announced our partnership with UNEP: Faith for Earth, and we are now proud to also highlight the work of the Interfaith Rainforest Initiative; Parliament of the World’s Religions Climate Action Task Force; Greenfaith; Religions for Peace; and the Center...
This week's episode of Spotlights features the artist, researcher, and writer, Christina Conklin. She discusses the ways that her work integrates art, data, science, and spirituality, and she talks about her forthcoming book (co-authored with Marina Psaros), The Atlas of Disappearing Places: Our Coasts and Oceans in the Climate Crisis, which will be released this summer.
More information on the climate emergency can be found at the website for the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology.
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We're pleased to share this abstract from the recent paper, “Public and Religious Values in the Context of Local and Transboundary Haze Pollution in Indonesia” by Alfajri, Azhari Setiawan, Helena Varkkey, Matthew Ashfold, Laura De Pretto, Wong Pui Yi, and Christopher Ives. Go here to read the full paper on the TECSEA site (Transboundary...
This week’s episode of Spotlights features Sean Kelly, PhD, professor of Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. He discusses his new book, Becoming Gaia: On the Threshold of Planetary Initiation (Integral Imprint, 2021). He describes the interlocking emergencies of climate change, mass extinction, and planetary apartheid in terms of a collective near-death experience (NDE) that humans are undergoing along with the living Earth. We talk about the...
Spring brings a multitude of events and activity related to the field of religion and ecology! We’ve highlighted a few of the many happenings here. Go to our event listings here for the full list.
Sacred People, Sacred Earth
March 11, 2021
Coordinated global actions
Hosted by GreenFaith International
From the event site:
On March 11, people of faith and conscience all around the world are kicking off organizing for the biggest-ever faith-...
This week’s episode of Spotlights features Elizabeth Allison, PhD, Associate Professor of Ecology and Religion at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) in San Francisco. She talks about the graduate program she founded and chairs in Ecology, Spirituality, and Religion at CIIS, including a new online program that will launch this fall.
Dr. Allison also discusses the Religion & Ecology Summit series of annual conferences that she created in 2016. The...
This week, we would like to highlight and honor the work of Carl Anthony, environmental and social justice leader. Among his many accomplishments and important work, Carl was the founder of Urban Habitat, one of the oldest environmental justice organizations in the country, and he founded and published the Race, Poverty and the Environment Journal, the only environmental...
This episode of Spotlights features Christopher Key Chapple, PhD, Doshi Professor of Indic and Comparative Theology and founding Director of the Master of Arts in Yoga Studies at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. He shares his perspective as a scholar and practitioner of yoga, particularly with regard to the connections between yoga and ecology. He discusses his new book, which explores elemental meditations across different traditions of yoga, Living Landscapes: Meditations on the Elements in Hindu,...
Religion & Ecology Early-Career Scholars (REECS) is a new international and interdisciplinary reading group that aims to create a network of connection and support for early-career scholars (loosely defined as those working on their dissertations to pre-tenured faculty) working in the field of religion and ecology (broadly defined). Meetings will take place on Zoom and any interested early-career scholar in religion and ecology is invited to join.
This week's episode of the Forum on Religion and Ecology podcast welcomes back Kimberly Carfore, PhD. She discusses some of the strategies and practices she has used for teaching nature immersion classes online during the pandemic, including nature awareness practices, meditations, and reskilling. Although teaching nature immersion online sounds like a contradiction in terms, she discusses some of the unique opportunities it affords as well.
You can learn more about her work through her organization, Ecozoa...