About the event
Negative, anthropogenic climate change has been accelerating – harming humans, disrupting the climate system, eroding biodiversity, and some aver, portending an apocalyptic end of the world. Some scholars blame religions, or some of them, for promoting environmentally destructive attitudes and behaviors, others aver that religions are beginning to, or might, come to the environmental rescue. Still others contend that indigenous traditions, or secular worldviews, or newly invented forms of religious naturalism, provide proenvironmental alternatives that, especially if they continue to gain cultural traction, could precipitate the cultural transformations necessary to avert the collapse of today’s biocultural systems (including civilization as we know it). Drawing on a comprehensive review of extant research by others, as well as his own research exploring contemporary nature spiritualities, Bron Taylor will conclude by speculating on the future of religion and nature, near, medium, and long-term.
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Relevant readings
- B. Taylor, Religion and Environmental Behaviour (part one): World Religions & the Fate of the Earth, Ecological Citizen 3(1): 71-76, 2019.
- B. Taylor, Religion and Environmental Behaviour (part two): Dark Green Nature Spiritualities and the Fate of the Earth, Ecological Citizen 2(3): 135-140, 2020.
About the Speaker
Bron Taylor is a leading scholar on religion and nature. His research focuses on various dimensions of environmental movements. He is the Editor in Chief of the "Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature" (2005). He is a faculty member of the Graduate Program of Religion and Nature at University of Florida. He is also a fellow of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. You can learn more from Bron Taylors webside.