26 articles in this issue
Editorial, Vol. 2, No. 2
Whitney Bauman
Many discussions surrounding environmental ethics and spirituality revolve around enchantment and place. Such notions are inherently marked by transcendent understandings of “religion” and “nature.” This article suggests that these transcendent unde... see more
Anthony Lioi
In an op-ed piece published in late 2009 in the New York Times, Ross Douthat claimed that James Cameron’s film Avatar was a piece of pantheist propaganda designed to encourage the worship of nature rather than God. In this essay, I critique Douthat’s clai... see more
Stephen Brain
This article revisits Lynn White's famous 1967 article that placed the blame for environmental problems in the Western world on the Judeo-Christian belief system, and discusses the case of the Pomor, a Russian sub-ethnicity who settled on the shores of th... see more
Peter Jeffrey Collins
This paper focuses on the historical development of ecospirituality, that is, a faith and practice both generating and informed by an appreciation of environmental concerns, among the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Britain. Decisions made withi... see more
Jonathan Butler
In exploring the link between ecospirituality and the hard sciences, I argue that the former provides a much-needed complement to the latter. The fragmentation of disciplinary pursuits fostered by the Enlightenment and by the continued progress of unquest... see more
Éric Baratay
Christianity has given a great deal of thought to animals in its effort to situate Man with regard to Creation, and to forge a mental image of the latter. This task was carried out by relying on the Bible, particularly the Old Testament, though its often ... see more
Hester Jones
The first part of this article outlines traditional and Christian ethical arguments about animal autonomy, in particular as these relate to the question of vegetarian practice; it goes on (in the second section) to indicate some ways in which more recent ... see more
Gillian Parrish
Thalia Field’s work, which she has described as an “ecology of questions,” inhabits the edges of genres, where she grows her verbal environments of researched material animated by her asking. Her most recent book, Bird Lovers, B... see more
Christopher Hrynkow, Dennis Patrick O'Hara
Since John Paul II’s 1990 World Day of Peace Message on the ecological crisis, green themes have been a recurring feature of the Vatican’s public teachings. Working with a selection of Catholic Social Teaching documents, this article explores the Vatican’... see more
Hsiao-Ching Li
This essay reads two Asian nature-oriented films from the perspective of eco-cinecriticism, an ecologically minded film criticism. Plant Wars, produced by PTS Taiwan, questions the demarcation between native plants and exotic plants as well as between pla... see more
Françoise Besson
In the novel Icefields by Canadian novelist Thomas Wharton, plants are more than incidental elements. Vegetation appears as a living form of writing in nature that enables men and women to understand life and their relationship to the world. I... see more
Heather Isabella Sullivan
Ecocriticism emphasizes how our bodily and ecological boundaries are just as porous, inter-penetrable, and open as are our cultural and linguistic realms. As individual bodies and communities, we are fully immersed in our material environment and particip... see more
Carmen Valero-Garcés
Having been a teacher to foreign language students and as a current trainer to translators, I can see how important it is to make connections between reality and formal education when preparing professionals to enter the job market once (or even before) t... see more
Ali Young's photographs
Diana Durham
Poems
Rose Flint
Ali Young
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Helen L. Moore
Four poems
Adele Tiengo
Book Review: Anna Re, Americana Verde (Milano: Edizioni Ambiente, 2009), 351 pp.
Isabel Maria Fernandes Alves
Book Review: Falas da Terra no Século XXI: What do we see green? (Lisboa: Esfera do Caos, 2001), 251 pp.
Kyle Bladow
Critique de Livre: Timothy Morton, Ecology without Nature: Rethinking Environmental Aesthetics. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2007), 262 p.
Lorraine Kerslake
Book review: Ecocríticas: Literatura y medio ambiente (Madrid/Frankfurt: Iberoamericana/Vervuert, 2010), 422 p.
Brigette Natalie McCray
Book Review: Queer Ecologies: Sex, Nature, Politics, Desire. (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2010), 1+410 pp.
John Parham
Book Review: David Ingram, The Jukebox in the Garden: Ecocriticism and American Popular Music since 1960. (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2010), 276 pp.
Book review of Falas da Terra no Século XXI