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OVERVIEW
Bron Taylor is Professor of Religion and Nature at The University of Florida. He is also a Carson Fellow
of the Rachel Carson Center (at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit t, Munchen), and an Affiliated Scholar
with the Center for Environment and Development at Oslo University. As an interdisciplinary
environmental studies scholar, and trained in ethics, religious studies, and social scientific approaches to
understanding human culture, his scholarly work engages the quest for environmentally sustainable
societies. An academic entrepreneur and program builder, he led the initiative to create an academic major
in Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, later initiated and was elected
president of the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, while also founding
its affiliated journal and becoming its editor. Appointed as the Samuel S. Hill Ethics Professor at the
University of Florida in 2002, he played a leading role in constructing the world's first Ph.D. program
with an emphasis in Religion and Nature. His most recent book is Dark Green Religion: Nature
Spirituality and the Planetary Future.
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Religion (Social Ethics), School of Religion, University of Southern California (12/22/88).
Major Area: Social Ethics; Minor Areas: Religion and Culture; Social Criticism & Social
Change. Dissertation: Affirmative Action and Moral Meaning: A Descriptive and Normative
Ethical Analysis of Attitudes of Affected Groups. Advisors: John P. Crossley. Jr., Donald E.
Miller, Sheldon Kamieniecki, Mark Kann.
M.A., Theology (Theological Ethics), Fuller Theological Seminary, 1980.
B.A., Religious Studies, B.A., Psychology, California State University, Chico, 1977.
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS AND PROMOTIONS
Professor of Religion and Nature, The University of Florida. August 2009.
Affiliated Scholar, Center for Environment and Development, Oslo University, involved with the
research project, Sustainability for the 21st Century: Overcoming Limitations to Creative
Adaptation in Addressing the Climate Challenge. Appointed March 2008.
Samuel S. Hill Professor of Christian Ethics & Associate Professor, Graduate Program in Religion
and Nature, Department of Religion, The University of Florida. Appointed August 2002.
Affiliate, School of Natural Resources and the Environment.
Professor of Religion and Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. Promotion to
Full Professor June 1998.
Director, Environmental Studies Program, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. Founder and
administrator of the bachelors degree granting Environmental Studies Program. Appointed
1993.
Associate Professor of Religion and Social Ethics, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. Promotion
June 1993; Tenure, June 1994.
Assistant Professor of Religion and Social Ethics, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. Appointed
September 1989. Appointed to the International Studies Faculty and Latin American Studies
Faculty, Fall 1990.
Lecturer in Religious Studies and Philosophy, California State University, Long Beach. Appointed
1988, served through May 1989
Adjunct Professor, College of Professional Studies, University of San Francisco. Appointed 1986,
served through May 1989.
AWARDS & HONORS
2011f Carson Fellow, Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Ludwig-
Maximilians-Universit t, Munich, Germany
2010-2012 University of Florida Research Foundation Professorship, $18,000 award.
2011 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar faculty member,
Reclaiming an Old Idea: The Humanities and Sustainability.
2006 The American Library Association s Outstanding Reference Source award, for
the Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature
2005 Choice s Outstanding Academic Title of 2005 for the Encyclopedia of Religion
and Nature
2002 Rosebush Professorship, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, highest faculty award
for research, teaching, and service
2001 First Prize, Curriculum Innovation Award, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, for
Biodiversity and Bioregionalism course, $3,500 award
1997-2001 Oshkosh Foundation Endowed Professorship, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
1994-1995 Research Fellow, Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of
Wisconsin Madison
1992 University of Wisconsin System, Regents Teaching Merit Award
1982-1983 U.S.C. Firestone Fellowship
1982 U.S.C. President s Circle Merit Award
1977 Graduated with distinction from California State University, Chico
PUBLICATIONS BOOKS
Avatar and Nature Spirituality, editor and author of three chapters. (Wilfrid Laurier University Press,
Environmental Humanities Series), slated for publication in 2013.
Civil Society in the Age of Monitory Democracy (tentative title) edited with Nina Witoszek and Lars
Tr g rdh (Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books, publication January 2013).
Dark Green Religion: Nature Spirituality and the Planetary Future (University of California Press,
2010).
Ecological Resistance Movements: the Global Emergence of Radical and Popular
Environmentalism. (State University of New York Press, International Environmental Policy
and Theory Series, 1995). Commissioned and edited volume of original research, writing
three chapters and co-authoring another.
Affirmative Action at Work: Law, Politics, and Ethics (University of Pittsburgh Press, Institutional
and Public Policy Series, 1991).
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PUBLICATIONS ENCYCLOPEDIA AND JOURNAL
Founding editor, Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, 4 issues/year since 2007,
affiliated with the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture
(London: Equinox). See www.religionandnature.com
Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature, editor-in-chief, 2 volumes, 1000 entries, 520 contributors, over
1.5 million words; author of 80,000 words of entries (London & New York: Continuum
International, 2005.)
PUBLICATIONS IN JOURNALS
Its Not All About Us: Reflections on the State of American Environmental History, Journal of
American History, forthcoming June 2013.
Blue River Declaration: A New Conversation about an Earth-based Ethic (with Gretel Van
Wieren), Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture 6(2):139-142, 2012.
Encountering Leopold, Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture 5(4): 393-96, 2011.
Green Heathenry: An Interview with Bron Taylor (written responses to an editor), Journal of
Heathen Studies (2): 219-26, 2011-2012,
Toward a Robust Scientific Investigation of the Religion Variable in the Quest for Sustainability,
Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture 5(3): 253-262, 2011.
Gaian Earth Religion and the Modern God of Nature, Phi Kappa Phi Forum 91(2): 12-15
(Summer 2011).
Interview With Bron Taylor (written responses to editor and other respondents) in a Special
Edition on Dark Green Religion, Sacred Tribes Journal 6(1): 1-73; Taylor s response, 5-21,
2011.
Exploring Religion, Nature, and Culture: The Growing Field, Society, and Journal (with Joseph
Witt and Lucas Johnston), Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture 5(1): 8-17,
2011.
Avatar as Rorschach, Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture 4(4): 381-83,
December 2010.
Opening Pandora s Film, (with Adrian Ivakhiv), Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and
Culture 4(4): 384-393, December 2010.
Idolatry, Paganism, and Trust in Nature, The Pomegranate 12(1): 103-08, 2010.
Theologians and the Asylum, Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture 3(3): 404-09,
2009.
Editor s Introduction to Special Issue on Christianity, Nature, and Ethics, Journal for the Study of
Religion, Nature and Culture 3(2): 165-68, 2009.
Back to Religion and Nature, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 77: 1-8, 2009. First
published doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfp010.
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The Tributaries of Radical Environmentalism, Journal for the Study of Radicalism, 2(1): 27-61,
2008.
Focus Introduction: Aquatic Nature Religion, Journal of the American Academy of Religion,
75(4): 863-874, 2007.
Surfing into Spirituality and a New, Aquatic Nature Religion, Journal of the American Academy of
Religion, 75(4): 923-951, 2007.
Exploring Religion, Nature, and Culture: Introducing the Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature
and Culture, Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture 1(1): 5-14, 2007.
A Green Future for Religion? Futures Journal (Special Issue, ed. William Bainbridge) 36(9):
991-1008, November 2004.
Threat Assessments and Radical Environmentalism, Terrorism and Political Violence 15(4):
173-182, Winter 2003.
Earth and Nature-Based Spirituality: From Earth First! and Bioregionalism to Scientific Paganism
and the New Age, Religion 31(3): 225-245, July 2001.
Earth and Nature-Based Spirituality: From Deep Ecology to Radical Environmentalism, Religion
31(2): 175-193, April 2001.
Bioregionalism: An Ethics of Loyalty to Place, Landscape Journal 19(1&2): 50-72, 2000.
Green Apocalypticism: Understanding Disaster in the Radical Environmental Worldview, Society
and Natural Resources 12(4): 377-386, June 1999.
Nature & Supernature Harmony and Mastery: Irony and Evolution in Contemporary Nature
Religion, The Pomegranate #8: 21-77, May 1999.
Religion, Violence, and Radical Environmentalism: from Earth First! to the Unabomber to the Earth
Liberation Front, Terrorism and Political Violence 10(4): 1-42, Winter 1998.
Guest editor of Special theme issue on J. Baird Callicott s Earth Insights, Worldviews:
Environment, Culture, Religion 1(2) :93-182, August 1997.
On Sacred or Secular Ground? Callicott and Environmental Ethics, Worldviews: Environment,
Culture, Religion 1(2): 99-111, August 1997
Editorial Introduction (with Clare Palmer), Worldviews: Environment, Culture, Religion 1(2):
93-97, August 1997.
Earth First! Fights Back: Contextual Reflections on Resistance and Democracy, Terra Nova:
Nature & Culture 2(2): 29-43, Spring 1997.
Earthen Spirituality or Cultural Genocide?: Radical Environmentalism s Appropriation of Native
American Spirituality, Religion 27(2): 183-215, April 1997.
Ecological Resistance Movements; Not Always Deep but if Deep, Religious: Reply to Devall, The
Trumpeter 13(2): 98-103, Spring 1996.
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Radical Environmentalism: Eco-Terrorism?, in Viewpoints on War, Peace, and Global Cooperation
(1996-1997 Annual Edition), 76-77.
Battleground for Competing Values: Affirmative Action at work, in Viewpoints 1993: The Journal
of the Wisconsin Institute for the Study of War, Peace, and Global Cooperation, 64-72.
Evoking the Ecological Self: Art as Resistance to the War on Nature, in Peace Review: the
International Quarterly of World Peace 5(2): 225-230, June 1993.
The Religion and Politics of Earth First!, The Ecologist 21(6): 258-266, November/December,
1991. (This is an early, shorter version of Earth First! s Religious Radicalism .)
Grassroots Resistance: the Emergence of Popular-Environmental Movements in Less-Affluent
Countries, Wild Earth 2(4): 43-50, Winter 1992/1993 (abridged version).
On Quotas and Civil Rights, Christian Century 108(24): 767-768, August 21-28, 1991.
Resurrecting the Civil Rights Bill, Christian Social Action 4(3): 28-31, March 1991.
Authority in Ethics: a Portrait of the Methodology of Sojourners Fellowship, Encounter 46(2):
139-156, 1985.
The Calling of Jonah, Radix 12(2) 20-22, 1980.
PUBLICATIONS INVITED BOOK CHAPTERS
Resistance: Do the Means Justify the Ends, Worldwatch State of the World 2013, reviewed and
accepted by editors, pending final approval by Worldwatch officials, publication slated for
2013.
Is Green Religion an Oxymoron?: Biocultural Evolution and Earthly Spirituality, in Marc Bekoff,
ed., Ignoring Nature noMore (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013), forthcoming.
Kenya s Green Belt Movement: Contributions, Conflict, Contradictions, and Complications in a
Prominent ENGO, forthcoming in Civil Society and the Challenge of Monitory Democracy
(tentative title) eds. Nina Witoszek, Lars Tragardh, and Bron Taylor (Oxford and New York:
Berghahn Books, 2013), forthcoming.
Wilderness, Spirituality and Biodiversity in North America: tracing an environmental history from
Occidental roots to Earth Day, in Wilderness Mythologies: Wilderness in the History of
Religions, ed. Laura Feldt, Religion and Society series, eds. Kocku von Stuckrad and
Gustavo Benavides (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2012), 293-324.
Environmental Millennialism (with Robin Globus), in Oxford Handbook of Millennialism. Ed.
Catherine Wessinger (Cambridge: Oxford University Press, 2011), 628-64.
Earth Religion and Radical Religious Reformation, in Moral Ground: Eighty Visionaries on Why
It s Wrong to Wreck the World. Eds. Kathleen Dean Moore and Michael P. Nelson (San
Antonio, Texas: Trinity University Press, 2010), 379-386.
From the Ground Up: Dark Green Religion and the Environmental Future, in Ecology and the
Environment: Perspectives from the Humanities. Ed. Donald Swearer (Cambridge: Center
for the Study of World Religions/Harvard University Press, 2008), 89-107.
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Sea Spirituality, Surfing, & Aquatic Nature Religion, in Deep Blue: Critical Reflections on Nature,
Religion and Water. Eds. Sylvie Shaw and Andrew Francis (London: Equinox, 2008),
213-33.
Religion and Environmentalism in North America and Beyond, Oxford Handbook on Religion and
Ecology. Ed. Roger S. Gottlieb (Cambridge: Oxford University Press, 2006), 588-612.
New and Alternative Nature Religions in America, (with J. Witt) in New and Alternative Religions
in the United States. Eds. M. Ashcraft & E. Gallagher (New York: Praeger, 2006), 253-272.
Nature Religion and Environmentalism in North America, (with G. Van Horn) in Faith in America,
v 3. Ed. Charles Lippy (New York: Praeger, 2006), 165-190.
Revisiting Ecoterrorism, in Religionen im Konflikt. Eds. Vasilios N. Makrides and J rg R pke
(M nster: Aschendorff, 2004), 237-248.
Battling Religions in Parks and Forest Reserves: Facing Religion in Conflicts Over Protected
Places (with Joel Geffen), in Full Value of Parks and Protected Areas: From Economics to
the Intangible, eds. D. Harmon & Allen Putney (Rowman and Littlefield, 2003), 281-94.
Diggers, Wolves, Ents, Elves and Expanding Universes: Bricolage, Religion, and Violence from
Earth First! and the Earth Liberation Front to the Anti-Globalization Resistance, in The
Cultic Milieu Oppositional Subcultures in an Age of Globalization. Eds. Jeffrey Kaplan and
Hel ne L w (Altimura, 2002), 26-74. Swedish translation forthcoming in Sekter,
sektmotst ndare och sekteristiska milj er, en f rnyad granskning.
Deep Ecology and its Social Philosophy: A Critique, in Beneath the Surface: Critical Essays on
Deep Ecology. Eds. E. Katz. A. Light, D. Rothenberg (Boston: MIT Press, 2000), 269-299.
Earth First!: from Primal Spirituality to Ecological Resistance, in This Sacred Earth: Religion,
Nature, Environment. Ed. Roger Gottlieb (Routledge, 1996), 545-557.
Resacralizing Earth: Environmental Paganism and the Restoration of Turtle Island, in American
Sacred Space. Eds. D. Chidester and E.T. Linenthal (Indiana University Press, Religion in
America Series, 1995), 97-151.
Earth First! s Religious Radicalism, in Ecological Prospects: Scientific, Religious, and Aesthetic
Perspectives. Ed. C. Chapple (State University of New York Press, 1994), 185-209.
Grassroots Resistance: the Emergence of Popular-Environmental Movements in Less Affluent
Countries (editor and lead author, with contributions from H. Hadsell, L. Lorentzen, and R.
Scarce), in Environmental Politics in the International Arena. Ed. S. Kamieniecki. (State
University of New York Press, 1993), 69-89.
PUBLICATIONS REFERENCE WORKS
Entry titled: Ecotage and Ecoterrorism (286-91) (with Todd Levasseur) in the Encyclopedia of
Environmental Ethics and Philosophy (Eds. J. Baird Callicott and Robert Frodeman, Detroit,
Macmillan Reference, 2008).
Entry titled: Environmentalism (v. 2, pp. 593-98) in The Brill Dictionary of Religion, 4 vols.
Editor-in-Chief, Kocku von Stuckrad (Leiden & Boston: Brill 2006). Revised and updated
from the original, German Metzler Lexikon Religion.
Entries titled: Ecology and Nature Religions, (pp. 2661-68) in the Ecology and Religion section;
Earth First! (pp. 2561-66); in The Encyclopedia of Religion (Editor-in-Chief, Lindsay
Jones, Second Edition, MacMillan, 2005).
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Entries titled: Introduction and Reader s Guide (encyclopedia introduction); Bioregionalism and
the North American Bioregional Congress, Celestine Prophesy, Conservation Biology,
Criticizing World Religions and Ecology, Death and Afterlife in Jeffers and Abbey,
Deep Ecology (with Michael Zimmerman), Deep Ecology Institute for, Disney
Worlds at War, Diggers Song, Earth First! and the Earth Liberation Front, Jane
Goodall (with Paula Posas), Environmental Ethics, Hundredth Monkey (and Monkeys
in the Field ); Radical Environmentalism (and Rodney Coronado and the Animal
Liberation Front ); Restoring Eden (with Peter Illyn); Religious Studies and
Environmental Concern, John Seed, Sierra Club (with Gavin Van Horn),
Surfing (with Glen Henning), Snyder, Gary and the Invention of Bioregional
Spirituality and Politics, United Nations Earth Summits, Paul Watson and the Sea
Shepherd Conservation Society (with Steve Best); in The Encyclopedia of Religion and
Nature. (Editor-in-Chief, Bron Taylor, London & NY: Continuum 2005). (Approximately
80,000 words)
Entries titled: Entries titled: Deep Ecology (180-82) John Muir (424-25), Nature
Religion (454-56), Neo-Paganism (458-60), New Age Religion (460-61), Sojourners
Fellowship (633-34); in The Encyclopedia of American Religious History (Facts on File,
revised edition, 2001).
Entries entitled: Environmentalism (pp. 140-44) and Earth First! (pp. 130-133); in Encyclopedia
of Millennial Movements. Ed. Richard Landes (New York & London: Routledge, 2000).
Entries entitled: Nature Religion (484-85) and Deep Ecology (182-83); in Contemporary
American Religion. Ed. Wade Clark Roof (New York: Macmillan, 2000).
Entries entitled: Affirmative Action (Part I, pp. 15-17) and Sustainability (Part II, p. 244); in
Dictionary of American History (supplement). Eds. Robert Ferrell and Joan Hoff (Lakeville,
Connecticut: Scribner s American Reference Publishing Company, 1996).
Entries titled: Deep Ecology, (180-81), John Muir, Nature Religion, Neo-Paganism, New
Age Religion, Sojourners Fellowship ; in The Encyclopedia of American Religious
History. (Facts on File, 1996).
Entries titled: Radical Environmentalism (539-40), Environmental Movements: Less Affluent
Nations (254-55), Eco-spirituality, (204-05). Wildlands Project (204-05); in
Conservation and Environmentalism: An Encyclopedia. Ed. Robert Paehlke (NY: Garland,
1995).
PUBLICATIONS POPULAR PRESS, FOREWORDS, MUSEUMS, INTERVIEWS
Foreword, in Spiritual Ecology: A Quiet Revolution by Leslie E. Sponsel (Santa Barbara: Praeger,
2012), ix-xii.
Surfing Spirituality, exhibition text in Surfing Florida: A Photographic History, curated by W.
Rod Faulds and Paul Aho, at the University Galleries of Florida Atlantic University (Boca
Raton). The exhibit opened 16 March 2012. A book is planned.
The Blue River Declaration, co-authored with 23 other environmental thinkers, 29 September 2
October 2011.
It's International Mother Earth Day, Ready or Not, Huffington Post, 21 April 2011.
Debate Over Mother Earth s Rights Stirs Fears of Pagan Socialism, Religion Dispatches, 20 April
2011.
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Dark Green Religion and Stephen Colbert's Quest for a New Faith, The Huffington Post, 31 March
2011.
Civil Earth Religion versus Religious Nationalism, The Immanent Frame (blog of the Social Science
Research Council), 30 July 2010.
Happy Solstice! -- Or is it?, Huffington Post, 20 December 2010.
Learning our Planetary Manners, Florida Magazine (the Magazine of the Gator Nation), 25 October
2010.
TV s Favorite Family Dumps Religion, Religion Dispatches, 13 October 2010.
The Discovery Channel Shooter: James Lee's Rage Against Civilization, The Huffington Post (with
an introduction by Michael Zimmerman), 2 September 2010.
Civil Earth Religion versus Religious Nationalism, The Immanent Frame (blog of the Social Science
Research Council), 30 July 2010.
Driving on Daytona Beach: a Dangerous Policy, Saint Petersburg Times, Wednesday, March 24,
2010.
War of the Worldviews: Why Avatar Lost, Religion Dispatches, 11 March 2010.
Toward a Natural Religion, St. Petersburg Times, paper and online editions, 6 December 2009.
Foreword, in Biodivinity and Biodiversity: The Limits to Religious Environmentalism by Emma
Tomain (London: Ashgate, 2009).
A Shared Sacrifice, Gainesville Sun (print and online), 29 March 2009, F3.
For Justice, the Label Must Befit the Crime, The Oregonian (print and online) 24 May 2007.
Foreword, in Igniting a Revolution: Voices in Defense of the Earth. Eds. S. Best and A. Nocella
(Oakland: AK Press, 2006), 1-7.
Society for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture forms, Religious Studies News, American
Academy of Religion, May 2006.
Countries must heed eco-degradation (with Lucas Johnston), Science & Theology News, April
2005, p. 6.
Are Christian Ethics Dead in America? Chicago Tribune, paper and online editions, 5 December
2004.
Religion Meets Nature: A New, Global Encyclopedia Seeks to Map an Emerging Field, Wisconsin
Academy Review 47(3): 20-22, Summer 2001.
Ecologist to Unabomber?, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 1996, B9.
`Bron Taylor Replies to Review of Ecological Resistance Movements, World Rainforest Report
(Australia), 34 (June): 25-26, 1996.
Environmental Studies: Getting Real, Oshkosh Northwestern, 21 April 1996, A11.
Environmentalists Nonviolent, USA Today, 19 April 1996, A13.
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Environmental Law Imperiled, The Oshkosh Northwestern, 30 July 1995, A9.
Modern Warfare, the Christian Dilemma, Theology News and Notes 28(1):1, 1981. Also served as
guest editor for this special issue: Modern Warfare, the Christian Dilemma, Theology
News and Notes, 28(1), 1981.
PUBLICATIONS BOOK REVIEWS
Mark Barrow, Jr., Nature s Ghosts: Confronting Extinction from the Age of Jefferson to the Age of
Ecology, in Journal of American History 97 (1):196-97, June 2010.
Derek Wall, Earth First! and the Anti-Roads Movement: Radical Environmentalism and the Anti-
Roads Movement, in Environmental Ethics 23(1):87-90, 2001.
Mohamed Suliman, ed., 1999. Ecology, Politics & Violent Conflict, in Terrorism and Political
Violence 12(1):119-121, Spring 2000.
K. Kassman, Envisioning Ecotopia: The U.S. Green Movement and the Politics of Radical Social
Change, in Journal of Political Ecology: Case Studies in History and the Social Sciences 6, 1999.
W. Kempton, J. Boster and J. Hartley, Environmental Values in American Culture, in The Ecologist
27(1):38-39, January/February 1997.
M. Rosenfeld, Affirmative Action and Justice: a Philosophical and Constitutional Inquiry, in Annals
of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 523:238-239, September 1992.
C. Albanese, Nature Religion in America: from the Algonkian Indians to the New Age, in
Interdisciplinary Humanities 7(1):45-57, Winter 1991.
R. White Jr. and A.G. Zimmerman, An Unsettled Arena: Religion and the Bill of Rights, in Religious
Studies Review 17(2):186, April 1991.
R. Nash, The Rights of Nature, in Interdisciplinary Humanities 7(3):60-62, Summer 1990.
J. P. Miranda, Marx and the Bible, in The International Bulletin of Missionary Research 2(3):
111-112, July 1978.
Andre Dumas, Political Theology and the Life of the Church, in Reformed Journal 30(10):28-29,
October 1980.
PUBLICATIONS EXCERPTS, REPRINTS & TRANSLATIONS
'Surf religi o' Almasurf Revista, volume 25.000, issue #68: 28-43, May 2012. A translation into
Portuguese of chapter four of Dark Green Religion in this Brazilian surfing magazine.
Deep Ecology and its Social Philosophy: A Critique, eds. D. Clowney and P. Mosto, Earthcare: An
Anthology in Environmental Ethics (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, 2009),
216-239.
NATURE=GOD It s Official: Surfing is a Religion, Surfing 44, July 2008. Cover story featured
and excerpted my scholarly work on surfing as aquatic nature religion.
The New Aquatic Nature Religion, Drift Magazine 1(3): 14-21, August 2007.
Battling Religions in Parks and Forest Reserves: Facing Religion in Conflicts Over Protected
Places (with Joel Geffen), in The George Wright Forum 21(2): 56-68, June 2004.
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Earth First!: From Primal Spirituality to Ecological Resistance, in Worldviews, Religion, and the
Environment, ed. Richard C. Foltz (Belmont, California: Wadsworth, 2003), 447-55.
Religion, Violence and Radical Environmentalism (reprinted excerpts) in The Pomegranate (Issue
10, November 1999), 4-18.
Excerpts (untitled) from two essays, in The Sacred Earth: Writers on Nature and Spirit, ed. Jason
Gardner (Novato, California: New World Library, 1998), 73, 112.
Affirmative Action at Work (reprinted book excerpts) published in The Lanahan Readings in the
American Polity, eds. Ann Sarow and Everett Ladd (Baltimore: Lanahan, 1997), 542-554.
The Religion and Politics of Earth First!, in The Ecologist Asia 1(2), 1993.
PUBLICATIONS WEBSITES
www.religionandnature.com was established in 2000 as a scholarly venue for the study of religion,
nature and culture. It is now also the location for the International Association for the Study
of Religion, Nature and Culture, and its affiliated journal, and a gateway to the Encyclopedia
of Religion and Nature.
www.brontaylor.com was established in 2010 to provide supplementary resources for the book Dark
Green Religion and easy access to previous scholarly work, interviews, and projects.
WORK IN PROGRESS
On Sacred Ground: Earth First! and Environmental Ethics. Book under contract with the University
of California Press, completion of manuscript expected in 2013.
Radical Environmentalism: A Documentary History. Digital portal project funded by the Rachel
Carson Center for Environment and Society, 2012-2013.
Governance over Natural and Social Systems: Handbook of Theories and Practices of Societal
and Global Regulation, co-edited volume with Tom R. Burns (Uppsala/Stanford), Helena
Flam (Leipzig), Nora Machado (Gothenburg/Lisbon), Ilan Kelman (Oslo), and Christian
Stohr (Gothenburg). Early stages of development.
The Greening of Religion Hypothesis, article and research project underway, with support from the
Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, 2012f.
Ecological Resistance Movements II, edited volume, early stages of development.
Documentary based on Dark Green Religion. A proposal was to be reviewed by early 2011 by the
National Geographic Channel, before co-producer Wes Skiles (Karst Productions) untimely
death. Discussions with other production companies are pending.
COURSES TAUGHT
For the National Endowment for the Humanities
Religion, Spirituality & Sustainability: Core faculty member during four week NEH
ethics, evolution, and the land ethic, Summer Institute, Rethinking the Land Ethic:
Flagstaff Arizona, July 2011 Sustainability and the Humanities'
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At the University of Florida
Environmental Ethics
Religion, Ethics, and Nature Radical Environmentalism
Religion and Nature (Graduate/Theory) Religion and Nature in North America
Nature, Spirituality, & Popular Culture Christian Ethics
At the University of Wisconsin
Environmental Ethics Religion and Social Ethics
Religion and Earth Ethics Religion, War, and Peace
Religious Ethics Religion and Personal Ethics
Radical Environmentalism Religion in America
Religion and Liberation Ethics Seminar on Environmental Issues
Biodiversity and Bioregionalism Senior Seminar in Environmental Studies
LECTURES & PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS
International
Faculty Lecturer, Religion and the Environment (various lectures), Lund University (Sweden) March
2013.
Disaster at Rio, Special Session on Rio+20 and the future of sustainability and disaster risk
reduction, 4th International Disaster and Risk Conference, Davos Switzerland, August
2012. Also Chair of the plenary session on Disasters, Environment, and Migration.
Environmentalism and the analysis of Religion/Non-religion, invited keynote presentation,
Religion and Society Research Day at Leeds University, United Kingdom, 6 June 2012.
Spirituality After Darwin: On the Globalization of Nature Spirituality and the Possibility of
Terrapolitan Earth Religion Contributing to Resilience and Environmental Sustainability,
invited lecture, Division of the History of Science and Technology at the Royal Institute of
Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, 19 April 2012.
Workshop presentation on Religion and Resilience, at the Stockholm Resilience Center, 20 April
2012.
Spirituality After Darwin: Dark Green Nature Religion as a New, Global Religious Movement,
invited lecture, Section of the Study of Religion, Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional
Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 18 April 2012.
Rio+20 Earth Debate on Food Security, debate panelist in event sponsored by the British Council,
held in Munich, 11 April 2012.
Religion and Ecology, Invited Seminar presentation, Centre for Human Ecology, Glasgow,
Scotland, 17 March 2012.
Spirituality After Darwin: Dark Green Nature Religion as a New, Global Religious Movement,
invited lecture, Edinburgh University, Scotland, 16 March 2012.
The Land Ethic, Biosphere Ethics, Climate Change and the envisioned One Health paradigm,"
plenary presentation, and From Limits to Growth to the Growth of Limits: responsibilities
of highly and less developed countries as constraints on growth intensify, special section
presentation, during the One Health - One Planet - One Future: International Perspectives
conference, Davos, Switzerland 19-23 February 2012. http://www.grforum.org/
pages_new.php/One-Health/1013/1/938/
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Radical Environmentalism in the Age of Terrorism, invited colloquium lecture, Rachel Carson
Center for Environment and Society, Munich, Germany, 2 February 2012.
Reading Religion and Resistance in Earth Art and the Book of Nature, keynote presentation,
Religion, Nature and Art Conference, the Vatican Museums, Vatican City, 15 October 2011.
Passion for Biodiversity: Conservation and Nature Religion in the Consecration of Evolutionary
Processes and Natural Variety, presentation to collaborators in research project, Cultures
of Biodiversity: Perceptions and Practices, Institute of Social Anthropology, the University
of Oslo, 13 October 2011.
Religion and parareligion in biodiversity advocacy, lecture, Institute for Social Anthropology, the
University of Oslo, 11 October 2011.
Gaian Earth Religion: Vanishing Divine Being(s) and the Mod-God Nature, Research Colloquium
'The Gods as Role Model, the University of Gronningen (The Netherlands), January 2011.
Dark Green Religion and the Roots of Western Environmental Resistance, Keynote Presentation at
the conference, Under Western Skies: Climate, Culture & Change in Western North America,
Mount Royal University, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, October 2010.
Plenary Presentations during the opening ceremony and the Public Open Forum on "Risk, Culture,
Ethics and Behavioral Change," International Disaster Risk Conference, Davos, Switzerland,
30 May & 2 June 2010.
Anger, Apocalypse & the Sublime: Poetic Arts as Inspiration and Weapon in the War on and over
Nature, Keynote Presentation at the conference, Tools of the Sacred, Techniques of the
Secular: Awakening, Epiphany, Apocalypse, and Doubt in Contemporary English-Language
Verse, Universit Libre de Bruxelles, 4-7 May 2010.
Environmental Ethics and Radical Environmentalism, invited lecture, Concordia University,
Montreal, Canada, November 2009.
Kenya s Greenbelt Movement: Contributions, Conflict, Contradictions, and Complications in a
Prominent ENGO, workshop sponsored by CERES21 & the European University Institute,
Florence Italy, September 2009.
Terrapolitanism or Totalitarianism: Considering the Progress and Peril of Dark Green Religion,
Presidential Address, Third Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Religion,
Nature and Culture, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 2009.
Trust in Nature / Faith in Civil Society, Arne Naess Symposium, Centre for Environment and
Development, Oslo, August 2008.
Invited workshop participant and presenter, exploring Chile s biosphere reserve proposal, Ecologia
y Sociedad: Enfrentando el Cambio Global con una Red de Sitios de Estudios Socio-
Ecol gicos de Largo Plazo al Sur de Am rica Universidad de Magallanes, Punta Arenas &
Unidad Acad mica Puerto Williams, Provincia Ant rtica Chilena, June 2008.
The Role of Religion in Environmental Governance, plenary speaker in two impulse sessions on
ethics and capacity building, at the Freiburg Forum on Environmental Governance,
Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, April 2008.
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Paganism as a New World Religion, Presidential Address, Second Meeting of the International
Society for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, Morelia, Mexico, January 2008.
Also presented Tree Animism during a Panel on Sacred Trees and their Humans and
served as the respondent for the session, Modern Spiritualities: Enchanted Science, Darwin,
and the Apocalypse.
Member and participant in the Oslo Revisionist School, an ad hoc think tank assessing the
Brundtland Report, which was published in 1987 by the United Nations World Commission
on Environment and Development as Our Common Future. The outcome is a report
presented at the Centre for the Environment and Development Research Conference, held in
Oslo on 27 April 2007, as well as at a side event arranged by the Norwegian Government at
the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development, in New York City, 8 May
2007. Presentations provided during meetings in Oslo (February 2006) Rome (September
2006), Stockholm (December 2006), Lisbon (February 2007) and Capri (April 2007).
Values and Ethics in Sustainable Development, at the International Conference on Sustainable
Development, Lisbon, Portugal, February 2007.
`World Religion, `Nature Religion, and the Quest for Sustainability, at the conference, Religion,
the Environment and Development: The potential for Partnership? hosted by the Norwegian
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the World Bank, United Nations Development Program, and the
Alliance of Religions and Conservation (ARC), Oslo, November 2006.
Blurring boundaries Where do religious environmental organizations end and secular ones
begin? at the conference, Religious NGOs, Civil Society and the Aid System, an
Exploratory Workshop sponsored by the European Science Foundation/Standing Committee
on Social Science, Oslo, November 2006.
The Past and Future of the Religion and Nature Field, keynote address, at the conference, Critical
Perspectives on Religion and the Environment, sponsored by the Subject Centre for
Philosophical and Religious Studies, and the Subject Centre for Geography, Earth and
Environmental Sciences, Leeds University; meeting held at the Woodbrooke Quaker Study
Centre, Birmingham, United Kingdom, September 2006.
Religion and Nature the Emerging Field, Centre for Human Ecology, Glasgow, Scotland,
September 2006.
Environmental Ethics and Religion in Reaction to the Crisis of Nature, plenary address, at the
International Environment Symposium, sponsored by the Presidency of Machelievler
Municipality, Istanbul (Turkey), June 2006.
Religion and Ethics in Models for Sustainability, prepared comments for Sustainability and
Democracy: a Need for Alternatives, a preparatory workshop in advance of the 2007
International Conference on the 20th Anniversary of the Brundtland Report, Center for
Environment and Development, Universitetet i Oslo (Norway), February 2006.
Surfing and Nature Religion, Universitetet i Oslo (Norway), February 2006.
Globalizing Green Religion: Nature Religion from Deep Ecology, to Radical Environmentalism,
and the United Nations, Universitetet i Bergen (Norway), February 2006.
Religion and the Environment in the International Context, plenary presentation, Religion and
Environment in Europe Workshop, sponsored by the European Science Foundation,
Benediktbeuern, Germany, June 2005.
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Revisiting Ecoterrorism, Religion(en) im Konflict conference, Deutchen Verreinigung fur
Religionsgeschichte, Erfurt Germany, 28 September 2003.
Civil Earth Religion and the Sacralization of the Biosphere, Environment, Religion, and
Globalized Spaces, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway,
25&26 September 2003.
A Green Future for Ritual and Religion? keynote presentation, African Religion and Ritual
Conference, National Science Foundation, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa,
September 2003.
Religion & Ecology: Visions for an Emerging Academic Field, plenary speaker for the annual
conference, Religious Studies in Secondary Schools, Toronto Canada, November 2002.
Religion, Nature, and Religious Studies, International Association for the History of Religions
Congress, Durban, South Africa, August 2000.
First International Workshop for the Study of Millennial Movements and Violence, using
Morphological Analysis, sponsored by FOA (Swedish National Defense Research
Establishment), Stockholm Sweden, July 2000.
Diggers, Wolves, Ents, Elves and Expanding Universes: Global Bricolage and the Question of
Violence within the Subcultures of Radical Environmentalism, for conference on Rejected
and Suppressed Knowledge: The Racist Right and the Cultic Milieu, Sponsored by the
Center for Migration Studies and the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention,
Stockholm University, February 1997.
Evoking the Ecological Self: Art and Ritual Resistance to the War on Nature, International
Transpersonal Association, 13th Annual Conference, Killarney, Ireland. Also during a Deep
Ecology symposium gave presentation entitled The International Deep Ecology Movement:
Lessons from the Front Lines, May 1994.
Domestic
Spirituality After Darwin, invited lecture, Anthropology Department, University of California,
Berkeley, November 2012.
Panentheism and Dark Green Spirituality, invited presentation, workshop on Evolutionary
Panentheism, the Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California, November 2012.
Religion and the Environment, moderator and forum participant regarding the World Wildlife
Fund's 'Sacred Earth Program,' Board of Directors & National Council Joint Session,
Washington DC, October 2012.
The media and message of Dark Green Religion: tracking the spread and influence of contemporary
nature spirituality, invited lecture, Presbyterian College, Clinton, South Carolina,
September 2012.
Surfing into Paradise and Catastrophe: Hollywood and Malibu in the construction of religious and
parareligious surfing imaginaries" in the session, 'Eden & Apocalypse: The Strange and
Contradictory Nature of Nature in Malibu, 5th meeting of the International Society for the
Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture, Pepperdine University, Malibu, August 2012.
The Greening of Religion Hypothesis, presenter and convener of the Forum on The Greening of
Religion Hypothesis, 5th meeting of the International Society for the Study of Religion,
Nature, and Culture, Pepperdine University, Malibu, August 2012.
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Ethics and Saving the Future and Green Religion and the possibility that reverence for life
ethics might help secure a flourishing future, two plenary presentations, at the Institute on
Religion in the Age of Science Conference with the theme Saving the Future, Lake
George, New York, 28 July 4 August 2012.
"Spirituality After Darwin: Dark Green Nature Religion as a New, Global Religious Movement,"
keynote presentation at the conference, Interdisciplinary Perspectives on New Religions:
Globalization and Sustainability, University of South Florida, 1 March 2012.
"The Eye of the Storm: Re-imagining Ethics for a Changing Planet," invited workshop participant,
with two dozen other environmental thinkers, organized by Oregon State University
Philosopher Kathleen Dean Moore, Blue River, Oregon, 29 September 2 October 2011.
Aldo Leopold: Extending the Land Ethic to Sustainability, panelist (and chair of session on
Protestantism and Environmental History ), American Society for Environmental History,
Phoenix, Arizona, April 2011.
Dark Green Religion, Reinhold Niebuhr Lecture Institute, Sienna College, Loudonville New York,
10 March 2011.
Parareligion, Earth Nationalism, and the Quest for the Sacred in Nature, session on A Temple
without Walls: Environmentalism as Secular Religion,' 125th Meeting of the American
Historical Association, Boston, January 2011
Civil Earth Religion versus Religious Nationalism, Workshop on Spirituality and Politics, Social
Science Research Council, New York City, 24-25 September 2010.
Dark Green Religion, The Open Center, New York City, 23 September 2010.
North American Perspectives, Stanford University, California, presentation during the workshop,
Reclaiming Ecological Wisdom for the Crisis of our Time, sponsored by Stanford's
Millennium Assessment of Human Behavior initiative, 23-24 May 2010.
Dark Green Religion, invited inaugural Daffodil Lecture, Commonwealth Honors College, The
University of Massachusetts, Amherst MA, April 2010.
Religion and Climate Change, Plenary Presentation, Consilience Among the Social Sciences in the
Face of Global Climate Change, Launch Workshop, the Rocky Mountain Series on Social
Science & Global Change, Colorado State University, April 2010
Dark Green Religion, invited public lecture sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences,
the Department of Religion, and the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, at the
University of Colorado, November 2009. Also participated in several seminars on campus
and gave a presentation on Dark Green Religion at the Boulder Bookstore, November 2009.
Integrating the Humanities into Environment-related education, Plenary Presentation, Conference
on Teaching and the Environment, LeMoyne College, Syracuse New York, October 2009.
Dark Green Religion and Environmental Studies, Association for Environmental Studies and
Sciences, Madison, Wisconsin, October 2009.
Developing an Environmental Studies Program, (with David Barnhill), Association for
Environmental Studies and Sciences, Madison, Wisconsin, October 2009.
Dark Green Religion," Invited Lecture, University of North Texas, May 2009.
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Dark Green Religion: Nature Spirituality and the Quest for Sustainability." Keynote Address,
Conference on Humanities and Sustainability, Florida Gulf Coast University, May 2009.
From Earth Day to Earth Religion: Nature Spirituality and the Quest for Sustainability." Earth Day
lecture, Syracuse University, April 2009.
Beyond Taboo: The Interdisciplinary Imperative in Environmental and Sustainability Studies.
Wrigley Lecture, Arizona State University, November 2008. Also presented on The
Humanities & Sustainability Studies: Gaining Place at the Table.
Rethink Everything!: The Sustainability Challenge to Religious Ethics, inaugural lecture,
Technology and Local Ecological Health series, Christian Studies Center, Gainesville
Florida, March 2008.
Science & Spirituality: Making the Connection in the Cause of Conservation, keynote
presentation, 4th International Partners in Flight Conference entitled Tundra to Tropics:
Connecting Birds, Habitats and People, McAllen, Texas, February 2008.
Thinking like a Watershed: Spirituality, Ethics and the History of Watershed Organizing in the
United States, plenary speaker, Symposium on Sustainable Water Resources, University of
Florida Water Institute, February 2008.
Bounding Paganism: Reflections on the Boundaries of the Scholarly Construction of Paganism,
Association for the Sociology of Religion, New York City, August 2007.
Justice, Faith, and the Quest for Sustainability: From Rio to Johannesburg and Beyond, keynote
presentation, Young Adult Ecumenical Forum on Environmental Justice 2007, March Chapel
at Boston University, July 2007.
Our Common Future: Twenty Years On, co-presenter with four others of the work of the Oslo
Sustainability Initiative, at a side event arranged by the Norwegian Government at the
United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development Meeting, New York City, 8 May
2007.
Sustainability Politics from the Ecotone to the Biosphere, Invited Lecture, Northern Arizona
University, May 2007.
Earth First! and the Earth Liberation Front: Exploring the Religious Dimensions of the Radical
Environmental Movement through Sound, Performance and Art, and Surfing as Nature
Religion, Carleton College (Minnesota), February 2007.
The Spirituality, Ritualizing and Activism of Radical Environmentalism, College of Charleston
(South Carolina), October 2006.
A Green Future for Religion and the Earth?, plenary presentation for the inaugural conference of
the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, The University of
Florida, April 2006.
Surfing into Spirituality, International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, The
University of Florida, April 2006
From the Ground Up: Growing a Green Future for Religion and Ethics, invited lecture for the
Ethics, Values, and the Environment conference, co-sponsored by the Center for the Study
of World Religions, Harvard Divinity School, and the Center for the Environment, Harvard
University, March 2006.
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Globalization and Earth-Based Spiritualities, Hamilton College, public lecture (and classroom
visits), March 2006.
Religion, Nature, and Ecology: An Ethical Mix?, four presentations over two days as featured
presenter for the annual conference of the Council for Spiritual and Ethical Education,
Washington DC, April 2005.
Environmental Ethics, Askew Institute on Politics and Society, Gainesville Florida, March 2005.
Rights and Nature, Stetson University Honors Program, Deland Florida, March 2005.
Earth First!, Ritual, and Nature Religion, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural
Resources, The University of Vermont, October 2004.
The Future of the Humanities in Environmental Education, University Lecture, The University of
North Texas, February 2005.
Radical Environmentalism and Bioregionalism: The Promise and Peril of Dark Green Religion,
University Lecture, Syracuse University, September 2004.
Earth First!, Ritual, and Nature Religion, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural
Resources, The University of Vermont, October 2004.
Teaching Science in Religion and Ecology Curricula, Seminar on Teaching Religion and Ecology,
Indiana University, October 2003.
The United Nations and the Future of Sustainability Politics, keynote presentation, Roots and
Shoots Conference (Jane Goodall Institute), Warren Wilson College, April 2003.
Eco-Anarchy or Eco-Law?: Sustainability Politics and Spirituality from Radical Environmentalism
to the World Summit on Sustainability, keynote presentation, 9th Annual Public Interest
Environmental conference on Saving What s Left, the University of Florida Law School,
February 2003.
Revolutionary Environmentalism: Promise or Peril?, keynote presentation, Revolutionary
Ecology conference, California State University, Fresno, January 2003.
Global Ethics and the World Summit on Sustainable Development: Johannesburg and the Future of
Sustainability Politics, keynote presentation, Earth Charter Summit, the University of
Wisconsin, September 2002.
Radical Environmentalism and Bioregionalism: The Promise and Peril of Dark Green Religion,
Anthropology Forum, California State University Chico, April 2002.
Dark Green Religion and Bioregional Politics: Toward Ecotopia or Catastrophe?, Yulee Seminar,
University of Florida (Gainesville), April 2001.
Who is Who Resisting the WTO?: The Roots of the Anti-Globalization Protest in the United
States, keynote address for the conference Green Protest: Activism to Protect the
Environment Around the Globe, co-sponsored by the German Historical Institute and
Florida State University, Tallahassee Florida, December 2000.
Terrorism and Beyond: the 21st Century, discussant, for Terrorism and Beyond conference,
Oklahoma City, April 2000.
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Green Religion in the Western United States: Mapping the terrain from Bioregional Deep Ecology
to Terrapolitan Earth Religion, Wirth Forum on Religion, Nature, and the West, sponsored
by the Center of the American West, University of Colorado, March 2000.
Environmental Resistance: Lessons from the Front Lines, Earth Day keynote address, Swarthmore
College, Swarthmore Pennsylvania, April 1999.
Earth and Nature-Based Spirituality: From Radical Environmentalism to Scientific Paganism,
presentation for a Consultation on Spirituality, funded by the Henry Luce Foundation of
New York and sponsored by the Religious Studies Department at University of California,
Santa Barbara, March 1998.
Grassroots Resistance to Deforestation in the United States: Reading the Tactical Landscape,
Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, March 1998.
Globalization, Religion, and Terrorist Violence in the Cultic Milieu of Radical Environmentalism,
Religion and Environmentalism Section, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, San
Diego, November 1997.
Bioregionalism: an Ethics of Loyalty to Place, presentation for a roundtable conference on
Bioregionalism and its Influence in Europe in the United States, Dumbarton Oaks (The
Harvard University Center for the Study of Landscape Architecture), Washington DC, April
1997.
Environmental Resistance: Lessons from the Front Lines, Earth Day keynote address, University
of Wisconsin Stout, April 1997.
Earth First!, Native Nations, and Radical Religion, satellite lecture, Arctic Sivunmun Ilisagvik
College, Barrow, Alaska, April 1997.
Locating the Sacred: the Controversy over the Mount Graham International Observatory, plenary
speaker and panelist for OnSite/InSight: Nature, Humanity, and Time; a Symposium on
Landscape History. Pennsylvania State University, June 1996.
Environmental Paganism and Ecological Resistance: Problems and Prospects in the Global
Context, plenary speaker and panelist, at the conference entitled Ecological Resistance
Movements: Religion, Politics, Ethics. University of Wisconsin Madison, November 1995.
Popular Ecological Resistance Movements: Trends and Tendencies in the Global Context,
Environmental Politics and Policy Section, Western Political Science Association Meeting,
Portland Oregon, March 1995.
Art, Religion, Ritual, and Ecological Resistance in the North American Deep Ecology Movement,
seminar presented to the Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin
Madison, October 1994.
A Planetary Tour of Ecological Resistance Movements, featured speaker sponsored by the
Wisconsin Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies. Presentations at two Wisconsin
universities, Spring 1994.
The Global Emergence of Militant Environmentalism, Environmental Studies Section,
International Studies Association, Washington, D.C., March 1994.
Radical Environmentalism, invited presentation, Environmental Studies Program, University of
Southern California, February 1994.
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Earth or Outer Space as Sacred Place: the Battle over the Mount Graham International
Observatory, faculty colloquium, the Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.,
November 1993.
Environmental Paganism and Musical Ritualizing: Field Recordings from Earth First! Wilderness
Gatherings, plenary address, North American Interdisciplinary Wilderness Conference,
Weber State University, Ogden Utah, November 1993.
The Primal Spirituality and Musical Ritualizing of Earth First!, featured speaker, sponsored by the
Wisconsin Institute for the Study of War, Peace, and Global cooperation. Presentation at St.
Norbert s College, DePere Wisconsin, April 1993.
Affirmative Action at Work: Law, Politics, and Ethics, featured speaker, sponsored by the
Wisconsin Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies. Presentations at three Colleges a