Asian Studies Program Joseph Adler Links for Religion and Nature Websites Earth Charter Journals & Magazines Articles Resources on China Graduate programs Conferences Since my retirement from teaching in 2014 these links have been updated only sporadically. 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. "Religions of the World and Ecology" book series | Review of series by Ursula Goodenough Canadian Forum on Religion and Ecology (CFORE) Center for Respect of Life and Environment 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) Center for Ecozoic Studies John Templeton Foundation 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) The Talk/Origins Archive: Exploring the Creation/Evolution Controversy 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 ReligionAndNature.com: Home of the Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature and the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture "God and Global Warming" (NOW on PBS) The Great Story (religious take on cosmology and evolution) The Sacred Balance (David Suzuki) The Gaia Foundation Journey to Planet Earth website (PBS series) People and the Planet Circle Sanctuary (Pagan group) International Society for Environmental Ethics (ISEE) - includes good bibliographies The Earth Charter: UN World Charter for Nature (1982) The Earth Charter Initiative Buddhist Perspectives on the Earth Charter (Ikeda Center) Journals and magazines: Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology (online through OhioLink) 1996-2006 2007- Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture 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) 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) "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 "An Animal's Place" by Michael Pollan (NY Times Magazine, 2002) 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: Sustainable China: blog by James Miller The China Quarterly: special section on "Dying for Development" (vol. 214, June 2013) Chinese philosophy Two articles of mine: Confucian Resources for Environmental Ethics Deep Ecology in the Yijing "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) Journal of Chinese Philosophy (2005): several articles on traditional Chinese views of nature "Saving China's Holy Mountains" by Martin Palmer (2001) "An Emerging Environmental Movement in China?" by Phillip Stalley and Yang Dongning Daoist Faith Statement on the environment "Taoism -- 'The Way' for Climate Action in China?" by Olav Kjorven "A Courageous Voice For A Greener China:" article on Pan Yue, Vice-Minister, State Environmental Protection Administration, China Another article on Pan Yue | And another "How Confucianism could curb global warming" by James Miller (Christian Science Monitor, June 2009) Friends of Nature (Chinese NGO) "The Natural and the Sacred in China" (NY Times travel article) 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 Future: Conferences and Events (Forum on Religion and Ecology - comprehensive list) Past: International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature & Culture (2009) Eco-City World Summit 2008 (2008) The Re-Enchantment of Nature across Disciplines: Critical Intersections of Science, Ethics, and Metaphysics (2008) Ecotheology and Ecological Ethics (2008) Emergence: Nature's Mode of Creativity (IRAS: 2008) Renewing Hope: Pathways of Religious Environmentalism (2008) Religious Perspectives on Climate Change (2007) 2nd Environmental Studies Summit (2007) Catholic Social Teaching and Ecology (2005) UN World Summit on Sustainable Development (2002) The Good in Nature and Humanity (2000) Edit date: 2/20/22