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Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies | December 2,2009
John Grim and Mary Evelyn Tucker, Co-Directors of the Yale University Forum on Religion and Ecology, discuss their view that there is a new relationship between religion and the environment. This new religious consciousness considers the natural world sacred.
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Yale's Faith And Globalization Resources
Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
John Grim and Mary Evelyn Tucker, Co-Directors of the Yale University Forum on Religion and Ecology, discuss their view that there is a new relationship between religion and the environment. This new religious consciousness considers the natural world sacred.
Mary Evelyn Tucker | March 26, 2007
In this lecture, Mary Evelyn Tucker, Research Scholar and Senior Lecturer at the Yale Divinity School, highlights the spiritual and ethical dimensions of the environmental crisis, arguing that the religious and environmental communities should make common cause in protecting the ecology of planet earth.
Other Yale Resources
Renewing Hope: Pathways of Religious Environmentalism.
Yale Divinity School
This article explores this conference at Yale Divinity School, which examined faith based perspectives for environmental concern.
Forum for Religion and Ecology at Yale
The Forum on Religion and Ecology is the largest international multireligious project of its kind, providing conferences, publications, and a website exploring religious worldviews, texts, ethics, and practices. It seeks to broaden understanding of the complex nature of current environmental concerns in both global and local perspective.
External Resources
Sierra Club’s Faith in Action
Access the Sierra Club’s report on positive intervention on the part of faith groups to benefit the environment.
Faith and Environment
National Council of Churches
Bob Edgars of the National Council of Churches addresses the role of faith movements in environmental stewardship. Text of speech available.
Religion and the Environment
A website compiling a list of resources on faith perspectives on the environment.
Evangelicals Go Green
TIME | February 8, 2006
This article discusses the recent turn toward environmental action observed among evangelical movements.