Department of Religious Studies Joseph Adler Links for Religion and Nature Websites Earth Charter Journals & Magazines Articles Resources on China Graduate programs Conferences Websites: Forum on Religion and Ecology: "an interreligious, multi-cultural, interdisciplinary initiative engaging in scholarly dialogue on the environment" -- excellent resource, based at the Harvard University Center for the Environment. Canadian Forum on Religion and Ecology (CFORE) Article on CFORE "Religions of the World and Ecology" book series Review of series by Ursula Goodenough Center for Respect of Life and Environment ReligionAndNature.com: Home of the Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature and the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture Religion and Environment: a good collection of links from the Pluralism Project at Harvard Religion and Environment News (Pluralism Project) Institute on Religion in an Age of Science (IRAS) The Alliance of Religions and Conservation Ian Ramsey Centre for the Interdisciplinary Study of Religious Beliefs in relation to the Sciences and Medicine (University of Oxford) New Visions of Nature, Science, and Religion (University of California at Santa Barbara) AAAS Dialogue on Science, Ethics and Religion International Community for Ecopsychology Animals and Society Institute Thomas Berry "God and Global Warming" (NOW on PBS) The Earth Charter: UN World Charter for Nature (1982) The Earth Charter Earth Charter Summits (community organizing for the EC) Buddhist Perspectives on the Earth Charter Journals and magazines: Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology (online through OhioLink) Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture 1996-2006 2007- E/The Environmental Magazine Special issue: "Can Religion Save the Environment?" "Should Animals Have Legal Rights?" "Religion and Other Animals" (Special issue of Society & Animals: Journal of Human-Animal Studies) Orion ("The Magazine of Culture, Creativity, and Change") Science & Spirit (magazine on religion and science) Science & Theology News Articles: Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim (founders of the Forum on Religion and Ecology): "The Greening of the World's Religions" (Chronicle of Higher Education, 2007) "Daring to Dream: Religion and the Future of the Earth" (Reflections: A Magazine of Theological and Ethical Inquiry, Spring 2007) "The Emerging Alliance of World Religions and Ecology" (Introduction to special issue of Daedalus, 2001) "Sacred places and biodiversity conservation" by Leslie E. Sponsel (The Encyclopedia of Earth, 2007) Article by Mikhail Gorbachev (El Pais, Jan. 26, 2004) "Structuring the Religion-Environment Connection: Identifying Religious Influences on Environmental Concern and Activism" (Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 2007) The Greening of the Vatican (National Catholic Reporter, 2007) "Aboriginal Christianity/Ecological Christianity: A Church of and for Turtle Island" (2007) The Specter of Speciesism: Buddhist and Christian Views of Animals, by Paul Waldau (online book, through OhioLink only) Judaism and the Earth (Jewish Renaissance) Articles from Greenspirit Journal Buddhism and the Environment: special issue of Contemporary Buddhism (2007) "The Greening of Buddhist Practice" by Kenneth Kraft "The Early Buddhist Tradition and Ecological Ethics" by Lambert Schmithausen "The Forest of Symbols embodied by the Tholung Sacred landscape of North Sikkim, India" by Vibha Arora "A Farewell to Ice" (NY Times, 3/18/08): picture of glacier's retreat "Evolution Book Sees No Science-Religion Gap" (NY Times, 1/4/08) Read the book: Science, Evolution, and Creationism ... 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Full Book Resources on China: Chinese philosophy Article on Neo-Confucianism and Ecology "The Natural and the Sacred in China" (NY Times travel article) "Blending into the Untamed Land" by Zhang Wei (1992): an essay on the traditional Chinese value of connection to one's native place chinadialogue: China and the world discuss the environment (contains many good articles) "Religion and the Environment in China" by Martin Palmer (2006) "An Emerging Environmental Movement in China?" by Phillip Stalley and Yang Dongning Exploring Religions (online textbook covering Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism Graduate programs: Ph.D. program in Religion and Nature (University of Florida) Ecological Anthropology Program (University of Hawai'i) Spiritual Ecology Concentration: Background essay Conferences: International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature & Culture (July 23-26, 2009) God, Nature and Design: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (July 10-13, 2008 ) Thinking Through Nature: Philosophy for an Endangered World (June 19-22, 2008) Eco-City World Summit 2008 (April 22-26, 2008) The Re-Enchantment of Nature across Disciplines: Critical Intersections of Science, Ethics, and Metaphysics (March 17-20, 2008) Ecotheology and Ecological Ethics (June 2-8, 2008) Renewing Hope: Pathways of Religious Environmentalism (February 28-March 2, 2008) Religious Perspectives on Climate Change (October 19, 2007) 2nd Environmental Studies Summit (June 7-9, 2007) Emergence: Nature's Mode of Creativity (IRAS: July 29 - August 5, 2006) Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability (January 9-12, 2006) Religion, Science, and Public Concern: Discourses on Ethics, Ecology, and Genomics (October 26-27, 2006) Catholic Social Teaching and Ecology (November 9-11, 2005) Climate Change: From Science to Action (October 6-9, 2005) Contemporary Pagan Studies (Nov. 21, 2003) UN World Summit on Sustainable Development (August, 2002) The Good in Nature and Humanity (May, 2000) Edit date: 8/20/08