We're pleased to announce that a very special issue of The New Ecozoic Reader has just been released. The electronic version is available now, and the print version will be made available in the coming weeks.
This special issue, edited by the Forum's own Sam King and Sam Mickey, is a retrospective on the field of religion and ecology: looking at where we've been, where things stand now, and how the field, and our work together, could evolve going forward. The issue is very intergenerational and includes essays by both esteemed and established figures in the field, and younger scholars, just emerging on the scene.
The issue includes a foreword by Iyad Abumoghli of UNEP Faith for Earth Coalition, an Introduction by Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim, and contributions from: Heather Eaton, David Haberman, Elizabeth Allison, Whitney A. Bauman, Ibrahim Ozdemir, Jason Brown, Kim Carfore, Sarah Pike, Lisa E. Dahill, Nancy Wright, Jim Robinson, Melanie L. Harris, Christopher Key Chapple, Dan Smyer Yu, Charisma K. Lepcha, Philip P. Arnold, Sandra L. Bigtree, Graham Harvey, Russell C. Powell, Rachael Petersen, Terra Schwerin Rowe, and Larry Rasmussen. Read more about each of the contributors, here.
From the Preface by Sam C. King and Sam Mickey:
During our time of proliferating ecological crises, the academic field and moral force of religion and ecology are matters of urgent importance for any effort to respond to the myriad challenges presented by these crises. It is a privilege and a pleasure for us to serve as guest editors for this special issue of The New Ecozoic Reader, focusing on exactly this urgent topic. We hope that this issue is a source of information and inspiration that can support anyone seeking integral community in our ecological age. Along with this brief introduction to the issue, as well as a preface from two esteemed leaders in the field, Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim, we have gathered essays from twenty-one scholars representing the diversity and abundance of perspectives on the intersection of religion and ecology. The contents of this issue include perspectives from across multiple generations and across the religious traditions of the world. Our contributors look toward the past, present, and future of religion and ecology, so you will find a mixture of retrospective and prospective insights, exploring the taproots that nourished the emergence of this unique area of inquiry as well as new directions that are currently taking shape. This issue of The New Ecozoic Reader covers a wide range of topics, including education, ritual, worldviews, democracy, nature immersion experiences, places, plants, wildness, future generations, and intersectional issues of gender, race, and socioeconomic class. READ MORE…