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Photo from the Oak Flat field trip at the ISSRNC conference in 2023. © Evan Berry.

Past President Future Tense

Over the past decade, but especially since the beginning of Trump’s second term, the US federal government has steadily intensified its assault on institutions of higher education, on climate science, on student activist organizations, on student loan forgiveness programs, and on programs of study that focus on social and racial inequalities…

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The Origins of the ISSRNC and its Journal

The idea to create the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture began in conversations I had with Sarah McFarland Taylor and Rebecca Gould in the late 1990s, as we lamented the difficulty at large conferences, such as the American Academy of Religion, in sustaining extended conversations with those interested in the complex ways that what we construe as “religion” is entangled within Earth’s socioecological systems…

Wild Women and Just Water

Wild Women and Just Water Event

We’re excited to share details on an upcoming event that the ISSRNC is co-sponsoring that may be of interest to our members. Wild...

Foundations and Fluidity

Foundations and Fluidity CFP – 2026 ISSRNC Conference

Foundations and Fluidity will mark the 20th anniversary of the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture (ISSRNC)—a milestone not only for the Society but also for the emerging field of Religion and Nature/Ecology. October 10-14, 2026 | Casa Artom, Venice, Italy. See full details in the CFP.

2025 AAR Reception

Religion, Nature, and Ecology – 2025 AAR Reception

Our 2025 AAR reception will feature a Q&A with Melanie Harris on her new edited volume Preaching Black Earth as well as remarks from Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim, founders of the Forum on Religion and Ecology. Fri 11/21, 5-8pm.

Ellen Bernstein (photo: Steven Tenenbaum)

In Memory of Rabbi Ellen Bernstein (1953–2024)

Since the 1970s, environmentalism has emerged as a recognizable sensibility in American Judaism. Although a few secular Jews — such as Robert Marshal, Murray Bookchin, and Barry Commoner — greatly contributed to the rise of environmentalism in the United States, Jewish environmentalism as a movement came into existence only in the 1970s, largely in response to the provocative essay, “The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis,” of Lynn White Jr.