Special Issue Introduction

Ecocosmologies and ‘Western’ Epistemologies: Contestation, Conflict and Collaboration

Authors

  • Kristina Tiedje Universite Lumiere Lyon 2
  • Lucas Johnston Wake Forest University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/jsrnc.34213

Keywords:

cosmologies, traditional knowledge, conservation

Abstract

Kristina Tiedje and Lucas Johnston introduce this special issue of Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture on Ecocosmologies and 'Western' Epistemologies: Contestation, Conflict and Collaboration.

References

Dubuisson, Daniel. 2002. The Western Construction of Religion: Myths, Knowledge, and Ideology (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press).

Johnston, Lucas, and Bron Taylor. 2016. ‘Trends in Religion and Environmental Poli­tics into the Twenty-?rst Century’, in Barbara McGraw (ed.), The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Religion and Politics in the U.S. (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Blackwell): 454-69. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118528631.ch36 .

Taylor, Bron. 2016. ‘The Greening of Religion Hypothesis (Part One): From Lynn White, Jr. and Claims That Religion Can Promote Environmentally Destructive Attitudes and Behaviors to Assertions They Are Becoming Environmentally Friendly’, Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture 10.3: 268-305. Doi:https://doi.org/10.1558/jsrnc.v10i3.29010 .

Taylor, Bron, Gretel Van Wieren, and Bernie Zaleha. 2016. ‘The Greening of Religion Hypothesis (Part Two): Assessing the Data from Lynn White, Jr., to Pope Francis’, Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture 10.3: 306-78. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1558/jsrnc.v10i3.29011 .

Taylor, Bron, and Lucas Johnston. 2016. ‘Religion and the Rise of Environmental Politics in the Twentieth Century’, in Barbara McGraw (ed.), The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Religion and Politics in the U.S. (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Blackwell): 350-68. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118528631.ch29 .

Wright, Robin. 2014. ‘Religious Power and Knowledge: Questions Raised on the Presuppositions of “Perspectivism” Among Indigenous Peoples’, in Lucas Johnston and Whitney Bauman (eds.), Science and Religion: One Planet, Many Possibilities (New York: Routledge): 216-33.

Wright, Robin. 2015. Mysteries of the Jaguar Shamans of the Northwest Amazon (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press).

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Published

2017-09-25

Issue

Section

CLOSED- Special Issue: Ecocosmologies

How to Cite

Tiedje, K., & Johnston, L. (2017). Special Issue Introduction: Ecocosmologies and ‘Western’ Epistemologies: Contestation, Conflict and Collaboration. Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, 11(2), 153-156. https://doi.org/10.1558/jsrnc.34213