Religion and Ecology Consultation (inaugural year)
Theme: Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Ecology
Eugene C. Bianchi, Emory University, Presiding
Lynn Ross-Bryant, University of Colorado, Boulder
Living with the Land: Nature and Religion in America
William C. French, Loyola University Chicago
Questioning Deep Ecology and the Critique of Hierarchy
Laurel D. Kearns, Emory University
Saving the Creation: Stewardship Theology and Creation Spirituality
Nancy R. Howell, Pacific Lutheran University
Living with the Matrix, an Ecofeminist Alternative to Hierarchy
Respondents:
Catherine Keller, Drew University
David Barnhill, Guilford College
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1992 - SAN FRANCISCO
Theme: Gaia and God: Responses to Rosemary Radford Ruether’s New Book
Eugene C. Bianchi, Emory University, Presiding
Introduction: Rosemary Radford Ruether, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary
Respondents:
John B. Cobb, Jr., Claremont Graduate School
Charlene Spretnak, Moss Beach, California
Carol J. Adams, Richardson, Texas
Response: Rosemary Radford Ruether, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary
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1993 - WASHINGTON, D.C.
Religion and Ecology Group (inaugural year)
Theme: Eco-spirituality
Carol J. Adams, Richardson, Texas, Presiding
Lynda Sexson, Montana State University
Narratives of “Nature”: Anima, Animation, Anomaly, Animalogy
Richard Louis Fern, Yale University
For the Love of Nature: From Stewardship to Fellowship
Roger S. Gottlieb, Worchester Polytechnic Institute
Deep Ecology, Social Oppression and Spiritual Life
Sharon V. Betcher, Drew University
Into the Watery Depths: An Eco-feminist Account of the Value of “Wetlands”
Theme: Thomas Berry and Sallie McFague: Ecological Visions
Thomas Dean, Temple University, Japan, Presiding
Sallie McFague, Vanderbilt University, Author of The Body of God,
Introductory Remarks
Respondents:
Jay B. McDaniel. Hendrix College
Mary E. Hunt, Women’s Alliance for Theology, Ethics and Ritual
Thomas Berry, Riverdale Center of Religious Research, Co-author (with Brian Swimme) of Universe Story
Introductory Remarks
Respondents:
Stephanie Kaza, University of Vermont
Eugene C. Bianchi, Emory University
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1994 - CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
Theme: Places: Sacred and Secular, Destructive and Empowering
Eugene C. Bianchi, Emory University, Presiding
Michael J. Christensen, Drew University
The Meaning of Chernobyl: Assessing the Psychosocial and Spiritual Impact of the World’s Worst Nuclear Disaster
Belden C. Lane, Saint Louis University
Toward a Definition and Taxonomy of American Sacred Places: Asking Preliminary Environmental Questions
Bron Taylor, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh
Environmental Paganism and the Resacralization of Turtle Island
Judith N. Scoville, Graduate Theological Union
Valuing the Land: Ecological Theology in the Context of Agriculture
Business Meeting
Eugene C. Bianchi, Emory University, Presiding
Theme: Religious Dimensions of Ecological Concern in South Asia
Christopher Key Chapple, Loyola Marymount University, Presiding
Harold Coward, University of Victoria
The Implications of Karma Theory for Environmental Ethics
Lance E. Nelson, University of San Diego
Seeing the World as Crow Excrement: Advaita Vedanta and the Irrelevance of Nature
Bruce M. Sullivan, Northern Arizona University
Paradise Polluted: Religious Dimensions of the Vrndavana Ecology Movement
Ann Grodzins Gold, Syracuse University
Sin and Rain: Moral Ecology in Rural India
Respondent:
David R. Kinsley, McMaster University
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1995 - PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA
Theme: Defending Livelihoods: Religious Movements toward Ecological Justice [With contributors to Ecological Resistance Movements: The Global Emergence of Radical and Popular Environmentalism (edited by Bron Taylor)]
Donald M. Braxton, Capital University, Presiding
Panelists:
Vikram K. Akula, Osmania University, Hyderabad
Bob Edwards, Ohio State University
Heidi Hadsell, McCormick Theological Seminary
Lois Ann Lorentzen, University of San Francisco
Bron Raymond Taylor, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh
Dan Deudney, University of Pennsylvania
Respondents:
Anna L. Peterson, University of Florida
Roger S. Gottlieb, Worster Polytechnic Institute
Theme: Ecological Challenges: The Problem of Evil in Comparative Perspective
Rachel Fell McDermott, Barnard College, and Anthony B. Pinn, Macalester College, Presiding
Panelists:
Michael Berenbaum, Washington, DC
William R. Jones, Florida State University
Jay McDaniel, Hendrix College
Terrence Tilley, University of Dayton
David R. Kinsley, McMaster University
Irene T. Bloom, Barnard College
Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan, Meredith College
Business Meeting
Carol J. Adams, Richardson, Texas, and David Landis Barnhill, Guilford College, Presiding
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1996 - NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA
Theme: Responses to J. Baird Callicott’s Earth Insights
Steven C. Rockefeller, Middlebury College, Presiding
Panelists:
Heather Eaton, University of St. Michael’s College, Toronto School of Theology
John A. Grim, Bucknell University
William R. LaFleur, University of Pennsylvania
Lois Ann Lorentzen, University of San Francisco
Rosemary Radford Ruether, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary
Bron R. Taylor, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh
Mary Evelyn Tucker, Bucknell University
Respondent:
J. Baird Callicott, University of North Texas
Theme: Post-Holocaust and Post-Gulag Religious Experience
Eugene E. Lemcio, Seattle Pacific University, Presiding
Panelists:
David Abram, Santa Fe, NM
David Landis Barnhill, Guilford College
John B. Cobb, Jr., Claremont Graduate School
Roger S. Gottlieb, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
David Kinsley, McMaster University
Ines M. Talamantez, University of California, Santa Barbara
Michael E. Zimmerman, Tulane University
Business Meeting
David Landis Barnhill, Guilford College, and Stephanie Kaza, University of Vermont, Presiding
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1997 - SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA
Theme: American Nature and Science Writers: Affinities with the Natural World
Leslie D. Alldritt, Northland College, Presiding
Steven J. Holmes, Harvard University
John Muir and the Religious Vision of Nature as Home
Russell A. Butkus, University of Portland
John Muir, A Theological Portrait
Charles R. Strain, DePaul University
The Pacific Buddha’s Wild Practice: Gary Snyder’s Environmental Ethic
Kimberly Whitney, Graduate Theological Union
Pariah’s Voice? Eco-religious Implications of Barbara McClintock’s Scientific Affect
Douglas Burton-Christie, Loyola Marymount University
The Palpable Holy: Pattiann Rogers’s Theopoetics
Theme: Brain Swimme’s The Hidden Heart of the Cosmos, Review and Response
Mary Evelyn Tucker, Bucknell University, Presiding
Panelists:
John B. Cobb, Claremont Graduate School
Heather Eaton, University of St. Michael’s College
Philip Hefner, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago
Rosemary Radford Ruether, Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary
Respondent:
Brain Swimme, California Institute of Integral Studies
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1998 - ORLANDO, FLORIDA
Theme: Bioregionalism and the Spirituality of Food and Place
Judith N. Scoville, United Theological Seminary, Minneapolis, Presiding
Bron R. Taylor, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh
Countercultural Bioregionalism: From Spiritual Roots to the Transformation of Resource Regimes
Sarah McFarland Taylor, University of California, Santa Barbara
Rooting Religion in the Land: Food and Faith at Genesis Farm
Daniel T. Spencer, Drake University
Ecological Location, Bioregionalism, and Food: Community Supported Agriculture as a Case Study for an Ethic of Food and Peace
Susan Power Bratton, Whitworth College
Religion and Ethics of Commercial Fishing in Ireland and the Pacific Northwest Region of the United States
James W. Perkinson, University of Chicago
Between “Urb” and Herb: On the Necessity of Postcolonial Politics for Bioregional Spirituality
Respondent:
Frieda Knobloch, University of Wyoming
Theme: Eco-feminism and Globalization
M. Susan Harlow, Meadville Lombard Theological School, Presiding
Panelists:
Lois Ann Loerntzen, University of San Francisco
Stephanie Kaza, University of Vermont
Heather Eaton, St. Paul University
Rosemary Radford Ruether, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary
Business Meeting
Stephanie Kaza, University of Vermont, and Daniel T. Spencer, Drake University, Presiding
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1999 - BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS
Theme: Thomas Berry’s The Great Work, Review and Response from Religious and Scientific Perspectives
Mary Evelyn Tucker, Bucknell University, Presiding
Panelists:
Rosemary Radford Ruether, Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary
Larry Rasmussen, Union Theological Seminary, New York
Robert C. Neville, Boston University
Stephanie Kaza, University of Vermont
Ursula Goodenough, Washington University
Respondent:
Thomas Berry, Fordham University
Theme: Race, Religion, Population, and Environmental Justice
James Martin-Schramm, Luther College, Presiding
Laurel D. Kearns, Drew University
Justice for All: U.S. Religious Involvement in the Environmental Justice Movement
Susan Power Bratton, Whitworth College
Ignoring Environmental Anti-Judaism: Luc Ferry’s Critique of Nazi Environmental Philosophy
William C. French, Loyola University, Chicago
Population Growth, Catholicism, and Ecological Laws
Daniel McFee, Marquette University
Maybe Only One?: Bill McKibben’s Arguments on the Population Crisis
Andrea Smith, University of California, Santa Cruz
Religion, Race, and the Population Paradigm
Business Meeting
Stephanie Kaza, University of Vermont, and Daniel T. Spencer, Drake University, Presiding
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2000 - NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE
Religion and Ecology Group and Religion in Latin America and the Caribbean Group
Theme: An Ecology for the Third Millennium
Beth Blissman, Oberlin College, Presiding
Shelini Harris, Emory University
Multinationals, Mal-development, and the Erosion of Environmental Justice for the Poor of the Earth
Joerg Rieger, Southern Methodist University
Re-envisioning Ecology and the Divine from the Margins
Iain S. Maclean, James Madison University
Holism: An Ecological Paradigm for Liberation? The Ecological Theology of Leonardo Boff
David J. Wellman, Union Theological Seminary, NY
Ecological Location and Muslim-Christian Dialogue; Identifying Tools for Exploring the Modern Landscape of Moroccan -Spanish Relations
Catherine Roach, University of Alabama
Fantasies of Aseity: Religion and Nature Imagery in American Advertising
Theme: Jews, Gender, and Ecology
Daniel T. Spencer, Drake University, Presiding
Panelists:
Irene Diamond, University of Oregon
Roger S. Gottlieb, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Fern Feldman, Aleph Alliance for Jewish Renewal
Shifra Penzias, Brandeis University
Natan Margalit, University of California, Berkeley
David Seidenberg, Jewish Theological Seminary
Theme: Biotechnology, Agriculture, and Genetic Engineering
Lois Ann Lorentzen, University of San Francisco, Presiding
Heather Eaton, St. Paul University
Naturally Ambivalent: Biotechnology and Theological Ethics
Judith N. Scoville, Northland College
Do Christian have a Moral Obligation to Support Agricultural Biotechnology?
Nicole Roskos, Drew University
Genesis, Generations, and Genetically Engineered Plants: Defending or Ending Generations, and the Protest against the Multinational Corporate Monopoly
Carol Manahan, Graduate Theological Union
Genetic Engineering and Agricultural Intensification: Profits versus Prophets
Sarah McFarland Taylor, Northwestern University
Safeguarding the Story in the Seed: Religious Women Providing Genetic Sanctuaries in Defiance of Bioserfdom and Terminator Technologies
Business Meeting
Daniel T. Spencer, Drake University, and Heather Eaton, St. Paul University, Presiding
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2001 - DENVER, COLORADO
Theme: World Religions and Ecology: The Harvard Book Series and Beyond
Mary Evelyn Tucker, Bucknell University, Presiding
Panelists:
David L. Haberman, Indiana University, Bloomington
Christopher Chapple, Loyola Marymount University
Kenneth L. Kraft, Lehigh University
Norman J. Girardot, Lehigh University
Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, Arizona State University
Rosemary Radford Ruether, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary
John A. Grim, Bucknell University
Responding:
Bron R. Taylor, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh
Theme: An Unspoken Hunger: Landscape, Literature, and Lust
Heather Eaton, St. Paul University, Presiding
Sarah M. Taylor, Northwestern University
Land as Lover: Mormon Eco-Eroticism and Planetary Polyamory in the Work of Terry Tempest Williams
Mark S. Cladis, Vassar College
A Sense of Place and the Place of the Wild: Terry Tempest Williams and the Erotics of Place
Daniel T. Spencer, Drake University and Ann M. Pederson, Augustana College
Refuge of Refugee: Teaching Terry Tempest Williams’ Refuge as a Case Study in Social, Cultural, and Theological Location
Marquerite Rigoglioso, California Institute of Integral Studies
The Rape of the Lake: A Study of the Spiritual and Environmental History of Lake Pergusa, Sicily
Maria Jansdotter, Karlstad University
An Ecoreligious Perspective in a Secularized Nordic Context
Mary Grey, Sarum College, University of Whales
Gender and Poverty in Drought-Stricken Rajasthan: Seeking the Dying Wisdom
Business Meeting
Heather Eaton, University of Ottawa, and Sarah M. Taylor, Northwestern University, Presiding
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2002 - TORONTO, CANADA
Religion and Ecology Group and Religion and Science Group
Theme: From Ecosystems to Outer Space: Exploring the Connections among Religion, Science, and Ecology
Sarah McFarland Taylor, Northwest University, Presiding
James Proctor, University of California, Santa Barbara
American Environmentalism: Science or Religion?
Susan Power Bratton, Baylor University
The Precautionary Principle and the Biblical Wisdom Literature: Toward an Ethic of Ecological Prudence in Ocean Management
Beth Blissman, Oberlin College
From Theory to Pedagogy: Engaging Science, Religion and Ecosocial Location
Lee W. Bailey, Ithaca College
Spaceship Epiphanies and Cosmologies
Responding:
Lisle Dalton, Hartwick College
Business Meeting:
Sarah McFarland Taylor, Northwestern University, and Bron Taylor, University of Florida, Presiding
Theme: People Shaping Place and Place Shaping People: Sacred Geography and the new Eco-Anthropology
Bron Taylor, University of Florida, Presiding
Gustavo Benavides, Villanova University
Meaning People: Cognition, and the Recalcitrance of the World
Nancy McCagney, University of California, Santa Barbara
Sacred Places, The Interplay of Religion, Environment, and Climate in Ancient Times
Prabha C. Reddy, Northwestern University
Sanctifying the Earthly and Cosmic Bodies of Siva in the Land of Srisailam: An Ecoreligious Study
Responding:
Anna Peterson, University of Florida
Theme: Engaged Research: Critical Reflections on Religion, Ecology, and the Scholar-Activist
Adrian Ivakhiv, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, Presiding
Laurel D. Kearns, Drew University
Activism Is What We Do Everyday
Whitney Bauman, Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences
At the Intersection of Advocacy and Academics: Green Studies at the Graduate Theological Union
Laura Hobgood-Oster, Southwestern University
Chemistry, Religion, Water, and Ecojustice
Barbara Jane Davy, Concordia University
Being at Home with Oneself in Daki Menan
Responding:
Lois Lorentzen, University of San Francisco
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2003 – ATLANTA, GEORGIA
Theme: Religion and United Nations Sustainability Politics: From Rio to Johannesburg and Beyond
Heidi Hadsell, Hartford Seminary, Presiding
Rick Clugston, Center for Respect of Life and Environment, Washington, DC
The Earth Charter: Past Challenges and Future Prospects
Heather Eaton, Saint Paul University
Religion and Ethics at the United Nation’s Earth Summit in Rio, 1992
Bron Taylor, University of Florida
Religion and Ethics at the United Nation’s Sponsored World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, 2002
Mary Evelyn Tucker, Bucknell University
The Search for Viable Global Ethics in and around the United Nations
Respondent:
Gary Gardner, Worldwatch Institute, Washington, DC
Theme: Religion and Conservation in Place
Roger S. Gottlieb, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Presiding
Anne M. Daniell, Drew University
Theology for an Estuary Community: How a Theology of Liminality Can Address the Pontchartrain Basin and Its Constitutive Communities
Elizabeth Gaines, Taimen Conservation Fund, Livingston, MT
Buddhism and Conservation: A Case Study in Restoring Buddhism and Taimen in Mongolia
Jill DeTemple, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Whole Person Theology, Whole Earth Ecology: Religion, Development, and the Environment in Rural Ecuador
Nicole Roskos, Drew University
For the Love of Trees and Pagans: The Decimation of Sacred Groves in Christian History and Its Appropriation by Contemporary Anti-environmentalism
Business Meeting:
Bron Taylor, University of Florida, and Christopher Chapple, Loyola Marymount University, Presiding