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3 Hour ProTech Course
REL271 Environmental Spirituality & Ethics
Lecture Schedule
Week 1 Mar 10 Class Begins; Introduction to Environmental Spirituality & Ethics
Due: Nothing
Week 2 Mar 17 Environmental imaginations
John Muir “A Windstorm in the Forests”
Gifford Pinchot “Principles of Conservation”
Week 3 Mar 24 Planetary Stewardship
Power & Chapin “Planetary Stewardship” [collab]
Cone “Whose Earth Is It, Anyway?”
Week 4 Mar 31 Wilderness, dominance, & “the environmentalism of the poor"
Stegner “Wilderness Letter”
Cronon “The Trouble with Wilderness”
Martinez-Alier The Environmentalism of the Poor, 1-15 [collab]
Week 5 Apr 7 Genesis and the “natures” of religion
Genesis 1-2
Merchant, “The Fall From Eden,” 11-38 [Collab]
Tu Wei-Ming “The Continuity of Being: Chinese Visions of Nature,” 584-8 [Collab]
Nelson “Indigenous North American lifeways” [Collab]
Week 6 Apr 14 Mother Earth and “religions” of nature
Goodenough Sacred Depths of Nature, 3-31 [Collab]
Warren “Power and Promise of Ecological Feminism,” 19-36 [Collab]
Chief Lyons “Listening to Natural Law” [Collab]
Week 7 Apr 21 Does religion cause ecological problems?
Nasr “The Problem” [Collab]
White “The Historical Roots of our Ecologic Crisis” [Collab]
Loy “The Religion of the Market” [Collab]
Week 8 Apr 28 Ecological Problems and Moral Concepts
Midgley “Duties Concerning Islands,” 36-43
Leopold Sand County Almanac “Wisconsin” “Arizona & New Mexico”(pages 101-24, 130-45 in Ballantine ed.)
Week 9 May 5 Hinduism and water pollution
Eck “Ganga: The Goddess Ganges in Hindu Sacred Geography” [Collab]
Narayanan “Water, Wood, & Wisdom” [Collab]
Alley “Idioms of Degeneracy” [Collab]
Week 10 May 12 Buddhism and Himalayan Environmental Change
Dalai Lama Ethics for a New Millennium, ch. 1 [Collab]
Harris “Ecological Buddhism?”
Branch “Climate Change Projects in the Land of Gross National Happiness”[Collab]
Week 11 May 19 North American Ecological Spiritualities
Kaza “To Save All Beings” [Collab]
Gonzales & Nelson “Contemporary Native American Responses” [Collab]
Snyder “The Rediscovery of Turtle Island” [Collab]
Macy “Council of All Beings”
Optional: Berkes “Cree Worldview from the Inside” [Collab]
Week 12 May 19 Judaism and Environmental Ethics
Gordis “Ecology and the Judaic Tradition” [Collab]
Schofer “Drought” [Collab]
Lerner “Transforming Shabbat” [Collab]
Week 13 May 26 Christianity and the ecological implications of salvation
Wirzba The Paradise of God, ch. 4 (UVa e-book)
Schaefer Theological Foundations for Environmental Ethics, ch. 3 (“Reverencing the
Sacramental Universe”) [ebrary]
Theokritoff “Liturgy, Cosmic Worship, and Christian Cosmology” [Collab]
Week 14 June 2 Moral Pluralism and Future Generations
Solow “Sustainability: An Economist’s Perspective” [Collab]
Earth Charter
Barry “Sustainability and Intergenerational Justice” [Collab]
Week 15 June 9 Climate Change: Imagining a Wicked Problem
Gardiner “Perfect Moral Storm” [Collab]
Shue “Deadly Delays” [Collab]