Religion and the Environmental Humanities: Opportunities for a (Re)emerging Field
We are excited to share news about an upcoming ISSRNC event at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion (AAR).
Religion and the Environmental Humanities: Opportunities for a (Re)emerging Field
Friday, November 19, 2021
6:30-8:30 PM (EST)
Religion is an insistent feature of the Anthropocene, finding its way into apocalyptic discourses and vitalizing resistance movements and materialisms alike. And while scholars of religion have a longstanding engagement with ecological issues, the proliferation of ‘turns’ in the environmental humanities and social sciences have often moved away from, rather than toward theology and religious studies. As creative scholarship on religion and environment takes new forms, the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture seeks to provide space for transdisciplinary connections that attend to the power of religious studies as a theoretical lens for the environmental humanities and social sciences. In the spirit of building collegiality around these shared disciplinary and methodological challenges, our session at the AAR Annual Meeting seeks to help provide early career scholars with opportunities to broaden their networks and deepen collaboration on a variety of practical topics.
Speakers:
Laurel Kearns: The Place of Religion in Environmental Studies
Elaine Nogueira-Godsey: The Place of Race and Gender in Religion and Ecology
