Religion and Environment

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This seminar confronts the oppositions that helped launch modernity and the Anthropocene: Nature vs. Culture, and Religion vs. Science. Readings explore (re-)constructing, reconciling, and hybridizing religious environmentalisms in dialogue with modern science for our multispecies planetary flourishing. Issues and topics include: Anthropocene and Capitalocene; religious ontologies and environmental ethics; modern mechanistic science and an inert non-agential nature; human-animal-deity relationships; new animism; Gaia Theory; deep time; Asian religions as contrasted with Abrahamic religion. Theorists include Donna Haraway, Arne Naess, Bruno Latour, Philippe Descole, Viveiros de Castro.