Religion, Nature, and the Future of Religion & Nature – Online Talk with Bron Taylor
RELIGION, NATURE, AND THE FUTURE OF RELIGION & NATURE:
ASSESSING ENVIRONMENTAL BEHAVIOR FROM THE WORLD’S PREDOMINANT RELIGIONS TO DARK GREEN RELIGION
Thursday, May 20, 2021 | 11:00 am – 12:20 pm (PDT)
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). In this talk Bron Taylor will speculate on the future of religion and nature, near, medium, and long-term, drawing on a comprehensive review of extant research by others, as well his own research exploring contemporary nature spiritualities.
The event is part of the 2020-21 colloquium series hosted by Department of Religious Studies at UC Riverside.
