“The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis”
CITATION: Lynn White, Jr. 1967. Science, Vol. 155, No. 3767, pp. 1203-7. ON-LINE AVAILABILITY: JSTOR Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.lib.ou.edu/stable/1720120 ABSTRACT: This article claims...
View ArticleA creation myth for the Anthropocene
Stephen’s post on Lynn White helped me focus on an idea I’ve been kicking around for a while: the need for a new creation myth suited to the Anthropocene. White’s argument reminds us that creation...
View Article“From Biophilia to Cosmophilia: The Role of Biological and Physical Sciences...
CITATION: Lucas F. Johnston. 2010. Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 7-23. ON-LINE AVAILABILITY: DOI: 10.1558/jsrnc.v4il.7 ABSTRACT: Ideas from the life sciences...
View Article“Postcolonial Studies and the Challenge of Climate Change”
CITATION: Dipesh Chakrabarty. 2012. New Literary History, Vol. 43, No. 1, pp. 1-18. ON-LINE AVAILABILITY: Project Muse: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/nlh/summary/v043/43.1.chakrabarty.html ABSTRACT:...
View Article“Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home”
CITATION: Francis, Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home [Encyclical], May 24, 2015. ON-LINE AVAILABILITY: Vatican website:...
View ArticleStorytelling & Practices of Habitation (Pt. I)
We welcome as a guest blogger OU alumna Chelsea Scudder, now with the Kairos Foundation, whose two-part post appears this week and next. A Sense of the Sacred ‘Sacred’ is a word that has not been...
View ArticleThe Human Climate
THIS POST IS PART OF OUR ANTHROPOCENE BIOSPHERE PROJECT–A SERIES OF POSTS ON ERLE ELLIS’ ‘ECOLOGY IN AN ANTHROPOGENIC BIOSPHERE‘ (ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS, 85/3 (2015)) To understand this massive and...
View ArticleSurviving the Anthropocene: Big Brains and Big Money at the Smithsonian
We welcome Lisa Sideris, of Indiana University, as a guest on the blog . . . click for her bio, or go to the “Who we are” tab. This is the first installment of a two-part post; please come back again...
View ArticleSurviving the Anthropocene Part 2: Of Omega Points and Oil
My previous post lamented the flawed presentation of climate change at the David Koch-funded Hall of Human Origins and suggested that a spiritual-scientific ideology, traceable in part to Teilhard de...
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