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is Director of the Ecological Society
of America’s (ESA) Sustainable Biosphere Initiative
(SBI) Project Office. She received her B.A. from Vassar
College and her Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
from Johns Hopkins University. Previous to her current
position she was a Senior Environmental Scientist with
Science and Policy Associates, Inc. During that time
she also held positions with the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the Oceanic Society,
and the National Science Foundation (NSF). She is actively
involved in a number of organizations which support
women and minorities in science including: Women in
Science and Engineering (WISE), Association of Women
in Science (AWIS), and Women’s Aquatic Network
(WAN).
is an anthropologist teaching at Waseda
University in Tokyo. She has been a memeber in the
Society of Fellows at Harvard University. Her
research focuses on Shinto ritual, specifically on
the
rites of renewal at the Grand Shrines of Ise, and on
Japanese imperial ritual. From April 1993 to March
1994
she was an information officer in the Public Relations
Section of Jingu Shicho (the bureaucracy that manages
The Grand Shrines of Ise).
received his Ph.D. from The Catholic University of
America in European intellectual history. Widely
read in Western history and theology, he spent many
years studying and teaching the cultures and religions
of Asia. He served as founder and director (1970–1995)
of the Riverdale Center for Religious Research along
the Hudson River and as Professor of Religion at
Fordham University where he founded and directed
a graduate program in the History of World Religions.
He has also taught and traveled extensively in China
and Asia. His published works include: Religions
of India: Hinduism, Yoga, and Buddhism (Columbia
University Press, 1996, c1971), Buddhism (Columbia
University Press, 1967), and a number of books regarding
environmental issues, including: The Great Work:
Our Way into the Third Millennium (Belltower/Random
House, 1999), The Dream of the Earth (Sierra Club
Books, 1988), and, with Brian Swimme, The Universe
Story (HarperSanFrancisco, 1992). He is currently
working on a manuscript entitled, A World of Wonder.
is Associate Dean for Academic and
Administrative Affairs, Associate Professor of Comparative
Theology, and Director of the Institute for Dialogue
among Religious Traditions at the Boston University
School of Theology. Educated in sinology at the University
of Chicago, Berthrong has been active in interfaith
dialogue projects and programs for many years. His
teaching and research interests include: interreligious
dialogue, Chinese religions, and comparative philosophy
and theology. His most recent publications include:
The Divine Deli: Religious Identity in the North
American Cultural Mosaic (Orbis Books, 1999), The
Transformations of the Confucian Way (Westview
Press, 1998), Concerning
Creativity: A Comparison of Chu Hsi, Whitehead, and
Neville (State University of New York Press, 1998),
All Under Heaven: Transforming Paradigms in Confucian-Christian
Dialogue (State University of New York, 1994),
a collaboration with Evelyn Nagai Berthrong on Confucianism:
A Short Introduction (OneWorld, 2000), and a co-edited
volume with Mary Evelyn Tucker entitled, Confucianism
and Ecology: The Interrelation of Heaven, Earth, and
Humans (Center for the
Study of World Religions, 1998).
is Professor of Philosophy and
Asian Civilization at the Richard Stockton College
of New Jersey. She also serves on the editorial board
for the journal, Philosophy East and West. She
received her B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania
and her
M.A. and Ph.D. from Stanford University. Her current
research focuses on comparative philosophy, particularly
in respect to gender analyses and environmental issues.
Her published works include: Transition to Neo-Confucianism:
Shao Yung on Knowledge and Symbols of Reality (Stanford
University Press, 1989), and Li Yong (1627–1705)
and Epistemological Dimensions of Confucian Philosophy
(Stanford University Press, 1996).
is Senior Counsel for Sustainable Development at the
Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection
(PA EPA). Brown holds a B.S. in Commerce and Engineering
Sciences from Drexel University, an M.A. in Philosophy
and Art from the New School for Social Research, and
a J.D. from Seton Hall University of Law. He has served
as Program Manager for United Nations Organizations
in the Office of International Environmental Policy
at the United States Environmental Protection Agency,
as Assistant Attorney General, as Director of the Bureau
of Hazardous Sites and Superfund Enforcement, as Litigation
Chief with the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental
Protection (DEP), and as the Director of the Office
of Regulation and Enforcement with the New Jersey Department
of Environmental Protection. The most recent of his
numerous publications include a volume he co-edited
with John Lemmons entitled, Sustainable Development:
Science, Ethics, and Public Policy (Kluwer Academic
Publishers, 1995).
is Professor of Philosophy and
Religious Studies at the University of North Texas and
President of the International Society for Environmental
Ethics (ISEE). He is the author of several books including:
In Defense of the Land Ethic: Essays in Environmental
Philosophy (SUNY, 1989); Beyond the Land Ethic:
More Essays in Environmental Philosophy (SUNY, 1999);
Earth’s Insights: A Survey of Ecological Ethics
from the Mediterranean Basin to the Australian Outback
(University of California Press, 1994), and more than
a hundred book chapters, journal articles, and book
reviews on environmental philosophy. His collaborative
efforts include: as co-author with Thomas W. Overholt,
Clothed-in-Fur and Other Tales: An Introduction to
an Ojibwa World View (University Press of America,
1982); Companion to a Sand County Almanac: Interpretive
and Critical Essays (University of Wisconsin Press,
1987); with Roger T. Ames, Nature in Asian Traditions
of Thought: Essays in Environmental Philosophy (SUNY,
1989); with Susan L. Flader, The River of the Mother
of God and Other Essays by Aldo Leopold (University
of Wisconsin Press, 1991); with Fernando J. R. da Rocha,
Earth Summit Ethics: Toward a Postmodern Philosophy
of Environmental Education (SUNY, 1996); and with
Michael P. Nelsom, The Great New Wilderness Debate
(University of Georgia Press, 1998).
is Professor of Theological Studies
and Associate Academic Vice President of Loyola Marymount
University (LMU) Extension School where he teaches
religions of India and comparative theology. Chapple
received his undergraduate degree in Comparative Literature
and Religious Studies from the State University of
New York (Stony Brook) and his PhD in the history
of religions through the Theology Department at Fordham
University. He has served as Assistant Director of
the Institute for Advanced Studies of World Religions
and taught Sanskrit, Hinduism, Jainism, and Buddhism
for five years at the State University of New York
(Stony Brook) before joining the faculty at LMU. His
published works include: Reconciling Yogas: Haribhadra’s
Collection of Views on Yoga (State University of New
York, 2003), Nonviolence to Animals: Earth, and
Self in Asian Traditions (State University of New York,
1993), Karma and Creativity (State University of New
York, 1986), a co-translation with Yogi Anand Viraj
of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali entitled, The Yoga
Sutras of Patanjali: An Analysis of the Sanscrit with
Accompanying English Translation Hinduism and Ecology (Sri Satguru Publications, 1991), and, several edited
collections of essays including: Jainism and Ecology:
Nonviolence in the Web of Life (State University of
New York, 2002) and Ecological Prospects: Scientific,
and Religious, Aesthetic Perspectives (State University
of New York, 1993).
was born in Australia, where he matriculated
from The Scots College (1975). He received his degree
in Theology from the University of Athens (1980), a
diploma in Byzantine Music from the Greek Conservatory
of Music (1979), and was awarded a research scholarship
to St. Vladimir's Theological Seminary (1982). He completed
his doctoral studies in Patristics at the University
of Oxford (1983). He was co-founder of St. Andrew's
Theological College in Sydney (1985), where he taught
Patristics and Church History (1986-1995) and served
as sub-dean. He was also Lecturer in the Divinity School
(1986-1990) and the School of Studies in Religion (1990-1995)
at the University of Sydney. Since 1995, he has taught
as Professor of Theology at Holy Cross School of Theology,
where he has also directed the Religious Studies Program
at Hellenic College. He is the author of several books
and numerous articles on Orthodox theology and spirituality
including, Fire and Light (Light and Life Communications,
1987), Repentance and Confession in the Orthodox
Church (Holy Cross Orthodox Press, 1990), Ascent
to Heaven (Holy Cross Orthodox Press, 1989), The
Desert is Alive (Joint Board of Christian Education,
1991), and Love, Sexuality, and the Sacrament of
Marriage (Holy Cross Orthodox Press, 1996). He has
recently published, Beyond the Shattered Image
(Light and Life Communications, 1999), a book on Orthodox
perspectives of the environment.
is the Executive Director of the Center
for Respect of Life and Environment (CRLE is an affiliate
of The Humane Society of the United States), Publisher
and Editor of Earth Ethics, and Director of the
Secretariat of University Leaders for a Sustainable
Future. He received his doctorate in Higher Education
from the University of Minnesota and his masters in
Human Development from the University of Chicago. Clugston
has also served as a faculty member and strategic planner
in academic affairs in the College of Human Ecology
at the University of Minnesota. His recent publications
include: “Transforming Higher Education to Care
for Creation,” in a volume edited by R. Peterson
and D. Conroy entitled, Creation as Beloved by God,
and “Sustainability and Rural Revitalization: Two
Alternative Visions,” in a volume edited by I.
Audirac entitled, Rural Sustainable Development in
America (John Wiley and Sons, 1997).
is Professor Emeritus at the Claremont
School of Theology and an active participant at the
Center for Process Studies. He received his Ph.D. from
the University of Chicago Divinity School. Since his
retirement, he co-organized, with George Regas, a group
entitled, Progressive Christians Uniting, that seeks
to provide a progressive Christian voice throughout
southern California. He also recently helped to organize
the International Process Network. He organized two
major conferences on “The Theology of Survival” (1969)
and “Alternatives to Catastrophe” (1969),
and, with David Griffin, he organized the Center for
Process Studies, a center that promotes the thought
of Alfred North Whitehead, a viewpoint that Cobb believes
necessary to counter the dominant thought patterns
of modernity. His published works include: Is It
Too Late: A Theology of Ecology (Environmental Ethics,
1995), and edited works with Charles Birch, The
Liberation of Life: From the Cell to the Community (Cambridge
University Press, 1981), and Herman Daly, For the
Common Good: Redirecting the Economy toward Community,
the
Environment, and Sustainable Future (Beacon, 1994).
Sc.D., is President of Second Nature, a nonprofit
organization with a mission to catalyze a worldwide
effort to make environmentally just and sustainable
action a foundation of learning and practice at all
educational levels. He is also a co-founder of the
Education for Sustainability Western Network. Cortese
was formerly the Commissioner of the Massachusetts
Department of Environmental Protection (MEPA). He
was the first Dean of Environmental Programs at Tufts
University and, in that position he spear-headed
the award-winning Tufts Environmental Institute (1989)
and the internationally acclaimed Talloires Declaration
of University Leaders for a Sustainable Future (1990).
Cortese is a founding member, and currently the Chair
of, The Natural Step US, and a founding member of
the US Board of Councilors for the China—US
Center for Sustainable Development. He is a Fellow
of the American Association for the Advancement of
Science (AAAS). He has served on numerous boards,
has been a consultant to the United Nations Environmental
Program (UNEP), and is a member of the Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) Science Advisory Board, and
the President’s Council on Sustainable Development’s
Education Task Force. He has been the recipient of
many awards including the Christopher Columbus Celebrate
Discovery Legacy Award (2002).
is
Associator of Philosophy and a member of the Women’s
Studies Program at the University of Cincinnati. She
received her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Her research and teaching areas include: ethics, political
theory, environmental philosophy, critical race studies,
and sex and gender studies. She has served as a Rockefeller
Fellow in the Department of Science and Technology Studies
at Cornell University, and as a Visiting Scholar at
the Institute for Science and Technology Policy Studies
at Murdoch University, Australia. Her books include:
Feminism and Ecological Communities: An Ethic of
Flourishing (Routledge, 1998) and Whiteness:
Feminist Philosophical Reflections (Rowman and Littlefield,
1999), co-edited with Kim Hall. She is currently exploring
the usefulness of conceptions of sacredness in environmental
and social ethics, and her forthcoming book, The
Philosopher Queen and Other Essays (Rowman and Littlefield),
will be published in the spring of 2002.
is a professor at the University of Maryland
School of Public Affairs and the Co-Founder and Associate
Editor of the journal, Ecological Economics. He received
his Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University and his B.A. from
Rice University. He has also held positions as Senior
Economist in the Environment Department of the World
Bank (1988-1994) and as Alumni Professor of Economics
at Louisiana State University. Daly served as Ford Foundation
Visiting Professor at the University of Ceará (Brazil),
as a Research Associate at Yale University, as a Visiting
Fellow at the Australian National University, and as
a Senior Fulbright Lecturer in Brazil. He has also served
on the board of directors of numerous environmental
organizations including the Beijer Ecological Economics
Institute of the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences and
WorldWatch Institute. He is a member of the Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) Scientific Advisory Board Subcommittee
on Environmental Economics. His research interests in
economic development, population, resources, and the
environment have resulted in numerous books and articles
including: Toward a Steady-State Economy (W.
H. Freeman, 1973), Steady-State Economics (Island
Press, 1991, c1977), Valuing the Earth (MIT Press,
1993), Beyond Growth (Beacon, 1996), and Ecological
Economics and the Ecology of Economics (Elgar, 1999).
He is coauthor, with theologian John B. Cobb, Jr., of
For the Common Good (Beacon, 1994, c1989), a
book that received the 1991 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas
for Improving World Order. He has numerous additional
awards including: the Sophie Prize (Norway) for contributions
in the area of Environment and Development (1999), the
Honorary Right Livelihood Award (Sweden's, ’alternative
Nobel Prize,“ 1996), and the Heineken Prize for
Environmental Science awarded by the Royal Netherlands
Academy of Arts and Sciences (1996).
is John Mitchell Mason Professor Emeritus
and Provost Emeritus at Columbia University and Director
of the Heyman Center for the Humanities. He is the author
or editor of more than two dozen works on Asian civilizations
including: Waiting for the Dawn (Columbia University
Press, 1993), The Trouble with Confucianism (Harvard
University Press, 1991), Confucianism and Human Rights
(Columbia University Press, 1998), Asian Values and
Human Rights (Harvard University Press, 1998), and
The Sources of Chinese Tradition (Columbia University
Press, 2000).
is Professor of Islamic Studies and the
History of Religions at the University of Colorado,
Boulder. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago
and has previously held teaching appointments at Yale
College and the University of Virginia. He has conducted
field research on Qur’anic recitation, Muslim
popular ritual, and the characteristics of contemporary
Muslim societies in Egypt, Indonesia, and Malaysia.
His current research interests include: Muslim community
formation in North America and Muslim human rights
discourses. He has served on the editorial boards of:
Teaching Theology and Religion (Blackwell Publishers,
1998), The Muslim World, Studies in Contemporary Islam,
and the Journal of Ritual Studies. His publications
include: a widely utilized college level textbook,
An Introduction to Islam (Macmillan, 1994), and numerous
edited volumes: with John Corrigan, Carlos M. N. Eire,
and Martin S. Jaffee, Jews, Christians, Muslims:
A Comparative Introduction to Monotheistic Religions (Prentice Hall, 1998), a related anthology with John
Corrigan et al. entitled, Readings in Judaism,
Christianity, and Islam (Prentice Hall, 1998), with Rodney L. Taylor,
The Holy Book in Comparative Perspective (University
of South Carolina Press, 1985), and a co-edited volume
with Earle H. Waugh, The Shaping of an American
Islamic Discourse: A Memorial to Fazlur Rahman (Scholars Press
1998).
is the Director of the Centre for Ecology and Spirituality
(Toronto). He is the founding Director (Emeritus)
of the Elliot Allen Institute for Theology and Ecology,
sponsored by the Theology Faculty of the University
of St. Michael’s College, at the University
of Toronto, Canada. The Institute provides graduate
students with an opportunity to specialize in the
area of theology and ecology and offers public lectures
that bring developments in ecological theology to
the attention of a wider audience.
has been on the curatorial staff of
the American Museum of Natural History and is Curator-in-Chief
of the 11,000 sq. foot permanent exhibition “Hall
of Biodiversity” which opened in May 1998 at the
American Museum of Natural History. A paleontologist
by trade, Eldredge has devoted his career to the analysis
of evolutionary patterns preserved in the fossil record
and their implications for understanding the evolutionary
process. He has confronted the contemporary mass species
extinction issue in several books including: Life
in the Balance: Humanity and the Biodiversity Crisis
(Princeton University Press, 1998).
is Associate Professor of Religion, History,
Natural Resources, and Asian Studies at the University
of Florida. He holds a Ph.D. in Middle Eastern Studies
from Harvard University and has taught at Brown University,
Gettysburg College, and Columbia University. An Iranianist
by training and an environmentalist by avocation, Foltz
is the author of several publications including: Spirituality
in the Land of the Noble: Iran and World Religions (Oneworld, 2004), Worldviews,
Religion, and the Environment (Wadsworth Thomson, 2002), Religions
of the Silk Road: Overland Trade and Cultural Exchange
from Antiquity
to the Fifteenth Century (Palgrave, 1999), Mughal
India and Central Asia (Oxford, 1998), the co-editor, with
Frederick M. Denny and Azizan Baharuddin, of Islam
and Ecology: A Bestowed Trust (Center for the Study
of World Religions, 2003).
is Chief Financial Officer at The
Hitachi Foundation in Washington, D.C., an independent
philanthropic institution dedicated to promoting corporate
citizenship. The Foundation encourages business to
assume a broader role in improving the well being of
underserved people. He has previously served as the
Vice President for Operations at the Worldwatch Institute,
as Organization Director of Greenpeace International
(Amsterdam), as Executive Vice President of The Wilderness
Society (Washington, D.C.), and as an instructor at
Bucknell University.
is Professor of the Comparative History
of Religions at Lehigh University. His research interests
include: Daoism, Chinese mythology, and the history
of the study of Chinese religions, as well as American
visionary “folk” or “outsider” art
and popular religious movements in the United States
(e.g., the Elvis “cult” phenomenon). His published
works include: Myth and Meaning in Early Taoism
(University of California Press, 1983) and The Whole
Duty of Man: James Legge (1815-1897) and
the Victorian Translation of China. 19th-century Transformations
of Missionary History, Sinological Orientalism, and
the Comparative Science of Religion (University
of California, 2001).
is Professor of Religion and Anthropology
at Syracuse University. She holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology
from the University of Chicago. Her research in North
India has included studies of pilgrimage, world-renunciation,
women’s expressive traditions, the transmission
of ecological knowledge, and memories of environmental
change. She is co-editor, with Philip Arnold, of Sacred
Landscapes and Cultural Politics: Planting a Tree (Ashgate,
2001). Additional publications include articles on
sacred groves, children’s environmental perceptions,
moral interpretations of climate change, and several
books, the most recent of which is a co-authored volume
with Bhoju Ram Gujar entitled, In the Time of Trees
and Sorrows: Nature, Power, and Memory in Rajasthan (Duke University Press, 2002).
is Professor of Biology at Washington
University in St. Louis. She holds a Ph.D. in Biology
from Harvard University. She has served as President
of the Institute on Religion in an Age of Science,
has
taught an undergraduate courses in cell biology, and
has written a textbook on genetics. Her research interests
include: molecular evolution of sex-related genes and
issues regarding the science/religion dialogue. Her
most recent book, The Sacred Depths of Nature
(Oxford University Press, 1998), explores religious
responses to our scientific understanding of nature
and suggests that these responses have the potential
to serve as an underpinning for a planetary consensus
on global ecology.
is currently Senior Lecturer and Research Scholar at Yale University teaching courses that draw students from the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale Divinity School, the Department of Religious Studies, the Institution for Social and Policy Studies, and Yale College. With Mary Evelyn Tucker he is Coordinator of the Forum on Religion and Ecology and series editor of "World Religions and Ecology," from Harvard Divinity School's Center for the Study of World Religions. In that series he edited Indigenous Traditions and Ecology: The Interbeing of Cosmology and Community (Harvard, 2001). He has been a Professor of Religion at Bucknell University, and at Sarah Lawrence College where he taught courses in Native American and Indigenous religions, World Religions, and Religion and Ecology. His published works include: The Shaman: Patterns of Religious Healing Among the Ojibway Indians (University of Oklahoma Press, 1983); He edited a volume with Mary Evelyn Tucker entitled Worldviews and Ecology (Orbis, 1994, 5th printing 2000), and a Daedalus volume (2001) entitled, "Religion and Ecology: Can
the Climate Change?" John is also President of the American Teilhard Association.
is Professor of Religious
Studies at Indiana University. He received his Ph.D.
in the History of Religions from the University of
Chicago.
His current research interests focus on Hinduism and
ecology and Deep Ecology. His most recent project,
a
book entitled, Yamuna: River of Love in an Age of
Pollution (forthcoming), examines the theology and
religious practices associated with the river goddesses
of northern India, the manner in which the religious
culture connected with rivers changes when a river becomes
severely polluted, and the responses to resist river
pollution being generated by religious communities involved
in river worship.
is a scholar of environmental planning
and management and a consultant of international development
who practices in North America and the Middle East.
He is a faculty member at the Department of Landscape
Architecture at Texas Tech University and the training
coordinator for the International Center for Arid and
Semi-Arid Land Studies in Lubbock, Texas. He holds
a Ph.D. in Environmental Planning from Virginia Tech,
a Master of Landscape Architecture from the University
of Georgia, and a Bachelor of Architecture from Cairo
University. Hamed has taught at the University of Guelph
and The University of Nova Scotia in Canada; King Faisal
University in Saudi Arabia; and the University of Georgia,
Virginia Tech, and the University of Maryland in the
United States. He has served as a consultant for several
organizations including: the Aspen Institute for Humanistic
Studies, the Smithsonian Institute, the Arab Development
Institute, Parks Canada, the United States Fish and
Wildlife Service, the United States Information Agency
(USIA), the United States Agency for International
Development (USAID), the Aga Khan Award for Architecture,
and the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism. He also worked
as an environmental specialist at the World Bank in
Washington, DC (1994–1997). Hamed has authored
or co-authored four books and more than six chapters,
articles, papers, and special reports on various topics
including: environmentally and socially sustainable
development, environmental strategies and management
of the arid lands, Islamic art and architecture, and
Arab-Muslim cross cultural issues.
is currently on the faculty of Rutgers University
and a Visiting Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania.
He has also served as Assistant Professor of Religious
Studies at Brown University. He has published widely
in the areas of his research interests (Islamic intellectual
history, religion, and Sufism).
is a member of the Center of Theological
Inquiry (Princeton, New Jersey), Director of the Ecumenical
Program on Ecology, Justice, and Faith, Co-Director
of Theological Education to Meet the Environmental
Challenge (TEMEC), and has served as the Social Education
Coordinator and Social Policy Director of the Presbyterian
Church (USA). He holds a Ph.D. in Social Ethics. His
published works include: Theology for Earth Community:
A Field Guide (Orbis, 1996); The Church’s Public
Role Retrospect and Prospect (Eerdmans, 1993); After
Nature’s Revolt: Eco-Justice and Theology (Fortress,
1992); Social Ministry (Westminster/John Knox, 1992);
and two co-edited volumes, one with Larry Rasmussen
entitled, Earth Habitat: Eco-Injustice and the
Church's Response (Fortress, 2001) and one with Rosemary Radford
Ruether entitled, Christianity and Ecology: Seeking
the Well-Being of Earth and Humans (Center for the
Study of World Religions, 2000).
served as the Executive Director for
the Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life (COEJL)
from 1995 to 2003. A long time environmental activist,
Jacobs obtained a B.A. in Sociology at the University
of California (Santa Cruz) and studied at various yeshivot in Israel during a year abroad at Hebrew University.
Mark has worked to organize and nourish a vibrant,
diverse, and growing Jewish environmental movement
supported by a strong network of regional affiliates,
a well-connected national office, and an effective
presence in Washington, D.C. Jacobs has staffed the
environmental policy work of the Jewish Council for
Public Affairs and played a leadership role in developing
the Interfaith Energy and Climate Change Campaigns.
His articles on Judaism and the environment are published
in several anthologies, Jewish journals, and Jewish
newspapers.
holds a Ph.D. in History from the University of Toronto,
a D.D. from McGill University, and an M.Div. from Princeton
Theological Seminary. Kalu has served as Head of the
Department of Religion, Dean of the Faculty of the Social
Sciences, as Director of the Institute of African Studies
at the University of Nigeria (Nsukka) and as a Harvard
University Fellow at the Center for the Study of World
Religions.
is Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies and South
Asian Religions at Syracuse University and co-chair
of the Study of Islam section of the American Academy
of Religion. She received her Ph.D. in the History of
Religions from McGill University with a specialization
in Islamic and Hindu traditions. She has served as a
Lilly Teaching Scholar and has been a recipient of an
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) fellowship
for college professors. Her interests include: gender
and development issues, computer-based learning technologies,
and community service. Her book, Songs of Wisdom
and Circles of Dance (SUNY, 1995), offers a critical
historical introduction to a major scholarly translation
of the devotional hymns of Ismaili Muslims in the Indian
subcontinent.
is Edward Mallinckrodt, Jr. Professor
of Divinity, Emeritus, at Harvard Divinity School.
He received his Ph.D. from Yale University (1955),
and he taught at Pomona College in Claremont and at
Vanderbilt Divinity School before coming to Harvard
University. He has published several books including: God—Mystery—Diversity: Christian Theology
in a Pluralistic World (Fortress, 1996) and In
Face of Mystery: A Constructive Theology (Harvard University
Press, 1993).
is Associate Professor of Environmental
Studies at the University of Vermont where she teaches
religion and ecology, ecofeminism, environmental philosophy,
and unlearning consumerism. She is a long-time Soto
Zen practitioner affiliated with San Francisco Zen
Center. Kaza is the author of: The Attentive Heart:
Conversations with Trees (Ballantine, 1993), co-editor,
with Kenneth Kraft, of Dharma Rain: Sources of
Buddhist Environmentalism (Shambhala, 2000), and editor of Hooked!
Buddhist Writings on Greed, Desire, and the Urge to
Consume (forthcoming).
is the Founder Director of the Islamic
Foundation for Ecology and Environmental Sciences, the
International Convenor of the Alliance of Religion and
Conservation, and a consultant to World Wildlife Federation
(WWF). He is author of Qur’an, Creation, and
Conservation and editor, with Joanne O’Brien,
of Islam and Ecology (Cassell, 1992).
is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Lehigh
University. He holds a Ph.D. from Princeton University
and a B.A. from Harvard University. His areas of specialization
include Buddhist studies and modern religious thought.
His published works include: The Wheel of Engaged Buddhism:
A New Map of the Path (Weatherhill, 1999), and, with
Stephanie Kaza, Dharma Rain: Sources of Buddhist Environmentalism
(Shambhala, 2000).
is Director of Programme at Schumacher College, editor
of Resurgence, and founder of the Small School Hartland.
At the age of nine he became a Jain monk, at eighteen
he joined the Gandhian Movement, and later in his
life he walked more than 8,000 miles from India to
the United States in order to propagate peace and
non-violence. His published works include: You
Are Therefore I Am (Green Books, 2002) and No
Destination (Green Books, 1992).
is President of the ICSEE with projects in Zanzibar,
Grenada, Eritrea, and urban United States. He has studied
at the California Institute of Technology and has received
a doctorate in theoretical physics from Harvard University
(1963). After a period at Oxford he joined the faculty
of Brandeis University. He has taught physics in Tanzania,
attended the 1997 symposium on the Black Sea in Crisis,
convened by the Greek Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch,
worked for opportunities in science for those traditionally
excluded, and has developed activities that place religious
and scientific leaders together with students and teachers.
received his Ph.D. from Peking (Beijing) University
(1985) and has taught and conducted research at Peking
University, Harvard University, Princeton University,
and the National University of Singapore. He has also
served as a visiting professor at the Pacific School
of Religion (Berkeley) and the Chinese University of
Hong Kong. In addition to many Chinese books and papers,
his English publications include Classifying the
Zhuangzi Chapters (Center for Chinese Studies, University
of Michigan, 1994). He is currently conducting comparative
research of varied versions of the Tao-te-ching
or Laozi, in light of the newly discovered bamboo
slips, silk manuscripts, and received manuscript versions.
is a resident teacher and spiritual leader
at the Zen Mountain Monastery in upstate New York. He
has completed formal training in rigorous koan Zen and
in the subtle teachings of Master Dogen‘s Zen.
Drawing on his background as scientist, artist, naturalist,
parent, and Zen priest, Abbot Loori speaks to Western
students from the perspective of shared background.
His published works include: The Eight Gates of Zen
(Dharma Communications, 1992), Two Arrows Meeting
in Mid-Air: The Zen Koan (Charles E. Tuttle, 1994),
and The Heart of Being: Moral and Ethical Teachings
of Zen Buddhism (Charles E. Tuttle, 1996).
is Distinguished Professor of Zoology and Valley Professor
of Marine Biology at Oregon State University, a scientific
advisor to Religion, Science, and the Environment; a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,
the National Academy of Sciences, and the American
Philosophical Society, and a member of the board
for several organizations including: Environmental
Defense, Monterey Bay Aquarium, Beijer Institute
for Ecological Economics, SeaWeb, and the David and
Lucile Packard Foundation. She also served as the
a former President of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science (AAAS), as a former President
of the Ecological Society of America (ESA), and as
President of the International Council for Science.
Lubchenco received her Ph.D. in Ecology from Harvard
University. She is a MacArthur Fellow, a Pew Fellow,
and winner of the 2002 Heinz Award in the Environment.
She was also nominated by President Clinton and confirmed
by the Senate to serve on the National Science Board.
is
Faithkeeper of the Turtle Clan, Onondaga Nation, Haudenosaunee
(Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy) and Associate Professor
in the American Studies Program at the State University
of New York at Buffalo. Oren has been active in international
indigenous rights and sovereignty issues at the United
Nations and other international forums for more than
three decades. His published works include the national
Indian newsmagazine, Daybreak.
,
originally from Australia, has worked for eight years
as a teacher and researcher in Papua New Guinea and
has taught at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, New York.
She completed her studies in the history of religions
at The University of Chicago (1988). Her current research
focuses on Melanesian styles of Christianity. Her published
works include many articles on indigenous religions
and Christianity, three chapters in the Introduction
to the Study of Religion (Orbis, 1998), a book entitled,
Mararoko: A Study in Melanesian Religion (Peter Lang,
1991), and an edited volume entitled, Experiences
of Place (Center for the Study of World Religion, 2003).
is
Professor of Religious Ethics at Marquette University
and President of The Religious Consultation on Population,
Reproductive Health, and Ethics. He is a former president
of The Society of Christian Ethics. His published works
include: Sacred Choices: The Right to Contraception
and Abortion in Ten World Religions (Fortress, 2001),
The Moral Core of Judaism and Christianity (Fortress,
1993), The New Subversives: Anti-Americanism of
the Religious Right (Continuum, 1982), A New
American Justice: Ending the White Male Monopolies (Doubleday, 1980),
Death By Choice (Doubleday, 1974), The
Moral Revolution (HarperSanFrancisco, 1986), and, as editor, Sacred
Rights: The Case for Contraception and Abortion in
World Religions (Oxford University Press, 2003).
is the Executive Director of the Coalition for Environmentally
Responsible Economies (CERES) and an ordained Episcopal
minister. He has been working on issues of corporate
governance and responsibility for more than two decades.
Massie received his master’s degree in social and
theological ethics from Yale Divinity School and his
doctorate in business policy from Harvard Business School
(1989). He has taught at Harvard Divinity School where
he ran the Project on Business, Values, and the Economy
and has served as a commissioner for the World Council
of Churches and an elected democratic primary nominee
for the position of Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts.
His published works include: Loosing the Bonds: The
United States and South Africa in the Apartheid Years
(Doubleday, 1997).
is the Director of the Steel Center for the Study of
Religion and a philosophy professor at Hendrix College.
He also serves on the board of directors of the Center
for Respect of Life and Environment and (CRLE) is active
in the Earth Charter initiative. His published works
include: Of God and Pelicans (Westminster/John
Knox, 1989), Earth, Sky, Gods, and Mortals (Twenty-Third
Publications, 1990), With Roots and Wings (Orbis,
1995), and Living from the Center: Spirituality in
the Age of Consumerism (Chalice Press, 2000). Influenced
by process theology, he has attempted to develop a process
theology of ecology in dialogue with other world religions,
particularly Buddhism. His interests also include concerns
for animal welfare within the larger horizons of ecological
thinking.
is
Gilbert Butler Professor of Environmental Studies at
Harvard University. He received his elementary and
graduate education from Queen’s University in
Belfast, Northern Ireland and spent a postdoctoral
year in the Chemistry Department at the University
of Wisconsin. He was Director of the Harvard University
Center for the Environment (2001–2004) where
he lead an interdisciplinary study on the implications
of China’s rapid industrial development for the
local, regional, and global environment; Chairman of
the University Committee on Environment at Harvard
(1991–2001); Chairman of the Department of Earth
and Planetary Sciences (1986–2000); Director
of the Center for Earth and Planetary Physics (1975);
named Abbott Lawrence Rotch Professor of Atmospheric
Sciences at Harvard University (1970); and appointed
staff scientist at Kitt Peak National Observatory in
Tucson, Arizona (1963). He is a Fellow of the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences, the International Academy
of Aeronautics, the American Geophysical Union, and
the American Association for the Advancement of Science
(AAAS).
Queen’s University of Belfast honored
him with the award of an honorary degree of Doctor
of Science
in 1991. In 1989 he was awarded the George Ledlie Prize
at Harvard University for the person who “since
the last award of said prize, has by research, discovery,
or otherwise made the most valuable contribution to
science, or in any way for the benefit of mankind,” he
received the Research and Development Award from the
National Energy Resources Organization, and was the
recipient of the Eire Society Gold Medal in 1987, the
NASA Public Service Medal in 1978, and the Macelwane
Award of the American Geophysical Union in 1968.
McElroy’s
research interests range from studies on the origin
and evolution of the planets to, more
recently, an emphasis on effects of human activity
on the global environment of the Earth. He is the
author of more than 200 technical papers contributing
to our
understanding of human induced changes in stratospheric
ozone and to the potential for serious disruptions
to global and regional climate due to anthropogenically
related emissions of greenhouse gases.
is Distinguished Theologian in Residence
at the Vancouver School of Theology in Vancouver, British
Columbia, and professor emerita at Vanderbilt University,
where she taught for thirty years. McFague holds a
Ph.D.
and M.Div. from Yale University and a B.A. from Smith
College. Her published works reflect her interests
in
religious language and ecological theology. They include:
Metaphorical Theology (Fortress, 1982), Models
of God (Fortress, 1987), The Body of God
(Fortress, 1993), and, Life Abundant: Rethinking
Theology and Economy for a Planet in Peril (Fortress,
2001).
is
Executive Director of the Center for Environmental
Research and Conservation (CERC), a professor in the
Departments of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental
Biology at Columbia University, and head of the Laboratory
of Genetic Investigation and Conservation (LoGIC).
He received his B.A. in history and anthropology from
New York University and his Ph.D. in Biological Anthropology
from Yale University. His research includes population
genetics, molecular systematics, and their uses in
evolutionary and biodiversity conservation studies.
His work has principally focused on non-human primates,
but has more recently been extended to other vertebrates
from toads to elephants. Melnick and his research group
are currently working on ways to use genetic diversity
across many different species occupying the same geographic
area for purposes of conservation planning. They are
also committed to creating an international cadre of
conservation geneticists through training and research,
which, to date has involved scientists and students
from Argentina, Brazil, Canada, China, Hungary, India,
Indonesia, Kenya, Malaysia, Mexico, Switzerland, Sri
Lanka, Thailand, Turkey, United States, and Viet Nam.
Melnick’s work has been published in a variety
of journals including: Nature, Evolution, and Conservation
Biology. His work has also been extensively reported
by the popular media (e.g., The New York Times, International
Herald Tribune, and the Discovery Channel).
is Assistant Professor of East Asian traditions at
Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario. He is
the author of Daoism: A Short Introduction (Oneworld,
2003), co-editor, with N. J. Girardot and Xiaogan Liu,
of Daoism and Ecology: Ways Within A Cosmic Landscape (Center
for the Study of World Religions, 2001), and editor
of http://www.daoiststudies.org.
His current research projects include: The Way
of Highest Clarity, a study
of a medieval Daoist religious movement, and The
Economy of Cosmic Power, an ecological theory
of religion.
is Professor of Peace Studies at Antioch and President
of Global Education Associates, a network of men and
women in 90 countries engaged in research, education,
and action to advance global systems that will secure
ecological integrity, peace, social justice, and democratic
participation for present and future generations. Mische
also teaches graduate courses on ecology and peace in
the Columbia University Peace Education Program and
is assisting with the advancement of the Earth Charter
as a supplement to the current United Nations Charter.
In 1988, Mische initiated the first citizens’ treaty
on global ecological security, The Earth Covenant. She
has conducted extensive research on environmental causes
of conflict and war and has authored numerous articles
and books including: Ecological Security and the
United Nations System (Global Education Associates,
1997).
is Assistant Professor of Native American Studies at
the University of California. A former instructor at
Bucknell University, Montejo is a Jakaltekan-Mayan anthropologist
active in issues of human rights and local resettlement
of Guatemalan Mayan peoples.
is Professor of International Environmental Policy,
Director of the International Environment and Resource
Policy Program at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
at Tufts University, and Co-Director of the Global Development
and Environment Institute at Tufts University. Moomaw
received his Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT). He has served as Professor
of Chemistry and Director of the Center for Environmental
Studies at Williams College, the Director of the Climate,
Energy, and Pollution Program at the World Resources
Institute, and as a Congressional Science Fellow at
the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS), where
he helped to evaluate the legislation to phase out CFCs
in aerosol cans and worked on energy RandD following
the oil embargo. He has written extensively on climate
change, and has been a principle author of the industry
chapters of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change Second Assessment: A Report of the Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change (Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change, 1995).
is Assistant Professor in the Department
of Theology and Religious Studies at the University
of San Francisco. She received her Ph.D. from the University
of California, Berkeley. Her dissertation was entitled,
“Hosting the Divine: The Kolam as Embedded Ritual,
Aesthetic, and Ecology in South India.” Nagarajan
has also sered as co-founder and co-director of the
Institute for the Study of Natural and Cultural Resources
and has been affiliated with various environmental non-governmental
organizations (NGOs) both in India and the United States.
is the American Academy of Religion “president
elect” and the author of “‘One Tree is
Equal to Ten Sons’: Some Hindu Responses to the
Problems of Ecology, Population and Consumption,”
published in the Journal of the American Academy
of Religion 65 (Summer 1997): 191–232. In addition,
she has been the recipient of several grants and fellowships
including a Guggenheim fellowship (1991–1992) and
an National Endowment of the Humanities (NEH) fellowship
(1998–1999). Her research interests focus on shared
ritual worship spaces between Hindus and Muslims in
south India. Her published works include: The Vernacular
Veda: Revelation, Recitation and Ritual (University
of Southern California Press, 1994) and a number of
forthcoming titles such as: The Sacred Utterance:
A Translation of a 9th Century Poem, Hindu Traditions
in the United States: Temple Space, Domestic Space and
Cyberspace, and The Hindu Traditions: An Introduction.
is University Professor of Islamic Studies at
the George Washington University. He received his Ph.D.
from Harvard University with specialization in Islamic
cosmology and science and holds a B.S. in Physics from
MIT. Nasr was a Professor of Islamic studies at Temple
University (1979–1984), Professor of Islamic
studies at the University of Utah (1979), the founder
and first President of the Iranian Academy of Philosophy,
a visiting professor at Harvard University (1962, 1965),
the first Aga Khan Professor of Islamic studies at
the American University of Beirut (1964–1965),
Professor of the History of Science and Philosophy
at Tehran University (1958–1979), Dean of the
Faculty of Letters and Vice Chancellor at Tehran University,
and President of Aryamehr University in Iran.
Nasr is a member of the directing committee of Federation
Internationale
des Societes Philosophiques (FISP) and
the Institut International de Philosophie. He is the
author of more than thirty books and 300 articles concerning
not only various aspects of Islamic studies but also
comparative philosophy, philosophy of art, the philosophical
and religious dimensions of the environmental crisis,
and religion. His published works include: The
Heart of Islam: Enduring Values for Humanity (Harper SanFrancisco,
2002), Man and Nature: The Spiritual Crisis in
Modern Man (Kazi Publications, 1997), Religion
and the Order of Nature (Oxford University Press, 1996), Muhammed,
Man of God (Kazi Publications, 1995), Man
and Nature (Unwin Paperbacks, 1976), Islamic
Science: An Illustrated Study (World of Islam Festival Pub. Co., 1976), Science
and Civilization in Islam (Harvard University Press,
1968), Introduction to Islamic Cosmological Doctrines (Belnap/Harvard University Press, 1964), and, as co-editor,
with Oliver Leaman, The History of Islamic Philosophy,
Islam: Religion, History and Civilization (Routledge,
1996).
is Assistant Professor of Theological and Religious
Studies at the University of San Diego. He received
his Ph.D. from McMaster University. His writings on
Advaita Vedanta and other aspects of South Asian religion
have appeared in books and scholarly journals in the
United States and India. His published works include
a recently edited volume entitled, Purifying the
Earthly Body of God: Religion and Ecology in Hindu India
(SUNY, 1998).
is a Ph.D. candidate in cultural ecology at the University
of California at Davis, President of The Cultural Conservancy
(a native nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation
of traditional cultures and their ancestral lands) and
a member of the Board of Directors of the United Religions
Initiative. A member of the Turtle Mountain band of
Chippewa Indians, her research focuses on Native American
environmental justice and cultural restoration at the
Presidio National Park in San Francisco, a military
base that has recently been converted into a park.
is Curator Emeritus at the American Museum of Natural
History and Professor Emeritus at Columbia University.
He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences,
the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American
Philosophical Society. He is the author of numerous
scientific papers as well as several books including,
On Creation and Evolution: Myth or Reality? (Columbia
University Press, 1982). His numerous awards for scientific
achievements include awards from the National Academy
of Sciences, Yale and Kansas Universities, and the American
Museum of Natural History (Gold Medal).
is Professor of African-American and African Studies
at the University of California, Davis, President of
African Association for the Study of Religions, and
Chair of the American Academy of Religion’s (AAR)
Committee on International Connections. He received
his Ph.D. in religion from Boston University. Olupona
and has taught at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife,
Nigeria and has served as a Fulbright Visiting Professor,
an Academic Fellow at the Commonwealth Universities
(England), Senior Fellow at Harvard University’s
Center for the Study of Religions, and has been a recent
recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship and
the University of California Research Fellowship. He
has authored several publications including: Kinship,
Religion, and Rituals in a Nigerian Community
(Coronet Books, 1991), Beyond Primitivism: Indigenous
Religious Traditions and Modernity (forthcoming),
African Spirituality (forthcoming), and has edited
or co-edited several additional books including: African
Traditional Religions in Contemporary Society (Paragon
1991), and, co-edited with Suleyman Nyang, Religious
Pluralism in Africa: Essays in Honor of John Mbiti
(Mouton de Gruyter, 1993).
teaches anthropology, ecology, and social movements
at Syracuse University, New York. His research interests
are in analyzing the intersection of social movements,
ecology, and traditions of knowledge among ecological
ethnicities—peasants, indigenous peoples, rural peasants,
fisherfolks, etc. He is actively involved in various
ethno-ecological movements and movements for sustainable
livelihoods in his home country, Nepal, and in India.
He has recently completed a manuscript entitled, Tortured
Bodies and Altered Earth: Ecological Ethnicities in
the Regime of Globalization (forthcoming).
is
the President of Wildlife Preservation Trust International
(WPTI), a Director of the Center for Environmental
Research and Conservation (a consortium of biodiversity
research institutions based at Columbia University),
and co-founder of the Center for Conservation Medicine
(a partnership of Wildlife Trust with Tufts University
School of Veterinary Medicine). She received her doctorate
from Yale University and has published widely in the
field of biodiversity conservation. She is co-editor
of the book Conservation Medicine (Oxford University
Press, 2002) which explores links between healthy ecosystems
and healthy communities, and co-editor of Conservation
for the 21st Century (Oxford University Press, 1989),
a volume of international authorship that was the first
to bring together biologists, resource managers, and
environmental ethicists.
is Harrison Professor of International Environmental
Politics at the University of Maryland and a lifetime
fellow of the American Association for the Advancement
of Science (AAAS). He received his PhD from Stanford
University after conducting his dissertation research
at the University of Warsaw. The author or editor
of twelve books and more than fifty articles and
chapters in edited books, his research interests
include: ecological security, sustainability, and
the application of evolutionary principles to the
study of international relations. His most recent
publications include: Ecological Security: An
Evolutionary Approach to Globalization (Rowman & Littlefield,
2003), Building Sustainable Societies: A Blueprint
for a Post-Industrial World (M. E. Sharpe, 1996),
and, Global Technopolitics: The International
Politics of Technology and Resources (Brooks/Cole Pub. Co.,
1989).
is Director of the Center for the Study of Science
and Religion and Professor of Biological Sciences
at Columbia University. He has also served as former
dean of Columbia College. His published works include:
The Missing Moment: How the Unconscious Shapes
Modern Science (Houghton-Mifflin, 1999) and Signs
of Life: The Language and Meaning of DNA (Houghton Mifflin,
1994).
is Professor of Religion Emeritus at Middlebury
College in Vermont and a Commissioner on the Earth
Charter Project. He received his M.Div. from Union
Theological Seminary in New York City and his Ph.D.
in the Philosophy of Religion from Columbia University.
He has also served as Dean of the College at Middlebury
College. His published works include: John Dewey:
Religious Faith and Democratic Humanism (Columbia University
Press, 1991) and two co-edited volumes: with John C.
Elder, Spirit and Nature: Why the Environment Is
a Religious Issue (Beacon, 1992), and with Donald S.
Lopez, The Christ and the Bodhisattva (State University
of New York, 1987).
is a Catholic ecofeminist theologian teaching
at the Graduate Theological Union (GTU) in Berkeley,
California. She currently holds the Carpenter Chair
of Feminist Theology at the GTU. Formerly the Harkness
Professor of Applied Theology at the Garrett-Evangelical
Theological Seminary and member of the graduate faculty
of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, she
currently teaches courses on the interrelation of Christian
theology, history, and social justice issues (topics
include: sexism, racism, poverty, militarism, ecology,
and interfaith relations). She holds a B.A. in Philosophy
from Scripps College (1958), an M.A. in Ancient History
(1960), and a Ph.D. in Classics and Patristics (1965)
from Claremont Graduate School. She also holds twelve
honorary doctorates, two of the most recent are from
the University of Edinburgh, Scotland and from the
University of Uppsala, Sweden. She is author and/or
editor of thirty-five books including: Women Healing
Earth: Third World Women on Feminism (Orbis, 1999),
Religion and Ecology (Orbis, 1996), Gaia
and God: An Ecofeminist Theology of Earth Healing (HarperSanFrancisco,
1992), and, with Rita Gross, Religious Feminism
and the Future of the Planet: A Buddhist-Christian
Conversation (Continuum, 2001).
is
President of Columbia University (since 1993). A native
of New Jersey, he graduated from Princeton University,
received his B.D. degree from Yale University, and his
Ph.D. in the study of religion from Harvard University.
Prior to his appointment at Columbia he served as President
of Rice University and Dean of the Harvard Divinity
School. His written works include: Beyond Existentialism
and Zen: Religion in a Pluralistic World (Oxford,
1979) and Commitment and Community (Fortress,
1989).
a
Canadian Jesuit priest, holds an M.A. in labor relations
from St. Louis University, a licentiate in theology
from the College St. Albert, and a Ph.D. in economic
development from Harvard University. He has acted as
a Special Advisor to International Development Research
Centre (IDRC) Ottawa (1993–2000) on a research
project entitled, “Science, Religion, and Development,” and
was the founding Director of the Center of Concern,
Washington, D.C. His research interests primarily focus
on relationships between science, religion, and economic
development. Research he conducted for the IDRC has
been published in: The Lab, the Temple, and the
Market: Expanding the Conversation (IDRC, 2000)
and Culture,
Spirituality, and Economic Development: Opening a Dialogue (IDRC,
1994). Additional publications include: The
Clergy and Economic Growth in Quebec (Presses
d’Universite
Laval, 1966) and, co-edited with Joseph Gremillion,
World Faiths and New World Order (Interreligious
Peace Colloquim, 1978).
is
Professor of Sociology at Boston College and holds
a chair in the Economics of Leisure Studies at Tilburg
University in the Netherlands. A graduate of Wesleyan
University, Schor went on to receive her Ph.D. at the
University of Massachusetts. Before joining Boston
College, she taught in the Department of Economics
and the Committee on Degrees in Women’s Studies
at Harvard University for seventeen years. Schor has
served as a consultant to the United Nations (UN),
the World Institute for Development Economics Research,
and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP).
She was a fellow at the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial
Foundation in 1995–1996 for a project entitled “New
Analyses of Consumer Society.” Schor was given
the Maurer-Stump Award (1994) from the Reading-Berks
Chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America and
she is the recipient of the George Orwell Award for
Distinguished Contributions to Honesty and Clarity
in Public Language (1998) from the National Council
of Teachers of English.
Schor is author of the national
best-seller, The Overworked American: The Unexpected
Decline of Leisure (Basic
Books, 1991) and her book, The Overspent American:
Why We Want What We Don’t Need. The Overworked
American (HarperPerennial, 1999), appeared on several
best seller lists including: The New York Times, Publisher’s
Weekly, The Chicago Tribune, The Village Voice, The
Boston Globe, and the annual best books list for The
New York Times, Business Week, and other publications.
The book is widely credited for influencing the national
debate on work and family. Schor’s other published
works include: Do Americans Shop Too Much? (Beacon
Press, 2000), and as co-editor, with Betsy Taylor,
Sustainable Planet: Solutions for the Twenty-first
Century (Beacon Press, 2002). Schor’s latest
book, Cashing Out On Kids (forthcoming), is about the
growth of marketing and advertising to children and
how it is undermining their well-being. Her current
work focuses on the issue of environmental sustainability
and its relation to Americans’ lifestyles. Her
scholarly articles have appeared in the Economic
Journal, The Review
of Economics and Statistics, World Development, Industrial
Relations, The Journal of Economic Psychology, and other journals.
Schor has lectured widely throughout the United States,
Europe, and Japan to a variety of civic, business, labor,
and academic groups. She appears frequently on national
and international television and radio, and profiles
on her have appeared in scores of magazines and newspapers,
including: The New York Times, Wall Street Journal,
Newsweek, and People magazine
is Chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary
of America and Rabbi Herman Abramowitz Professor of
Jewish History. Schorsch’s longtime support of
the Middle East peace process was capped by an invitation
from President Clinton to serve with the official presidential
delegation witnessing the peace treaty signing between
Jordan and Israel in October 1994. He has become recognized
as one of the foremost spokespersons on a range of national
issues including: the environment, the separation of
church and state, health care, and welfare reform. Schorsch
worked closely with Vice President Albert Gore to help
create the National Religious Partnership for the Environment,
a coalition of religious and scientific leaders that
have succeeded in using moral influence wielded by religious
leaders to effect environmental change.
is the
Director of the Jewish Theological Seminary’s Department
of Community Education and the founder of the Coalition
on the Environment and Jewish Life (COEJL). He has also
served as the Director of the Radius Institute (a program
and policy-planning center at the CUNY Graduate School)
and has been a long-time student of field botany, forest
ecology, and human/nature relationships.
received
his Ph.D. from Temple University. He has served as a
Visiting Scholar at Harvard University’s Center
for the Study of World Religions and has recently completed
two works for publication: a manuscript entitled, American
Students’ Perceptions of Islam (forthcoming),
and a translated (from Arabic to English) version of
a previous publication entitled, Islamic Mysticism
and Its Impact on Indonesian Society (forthcoming).
is
President of Berea College. He received his B.A. from
Baldwin Wallace College (1964), his B.D. from Drew Theological
School (1968), and his Ph.D. in History of Religions
from Princeton University (1972). He has served as the
Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, as Vice President
for Academic Affairs at Bucknell University, and has
taught courses in religion and humanities at Oberlin
College. He is the author of two books: Two Sacred
Worlds: Experience and Structure in the World Religions
(Abingdon, 1977) and The Dark Lord: Cult Images and
the Hare Krishnas in America (Westminster Press,
1987).
is a Senior Scientist for Aquatic Biodiversity
at the New England Aquarium’s Departments of
Global Marine Programs and Research, and an adjunct
Assistant Professor in Boston University’s Department
of Biology. In these capacities, she has developed
programs in aquatic biodiversity (both freshwater and
marine), created an aquatic biodiversity exhibit, and
conducted research on behavioral approaches to conservation
and the evolution of brain and behavior. Caroly received
her Ph.D. in Marine Biology from the Scripps Institution
of Oceanography and her B.A. in biology from Wellesley
College. She has thirteen years of international conservation
experience ranging from governmental policy, grassroots
work, and environmental education, primarily in coral
reefs, freshwaters, and rainforests in Africa and the
South Pacific. She has also served as: a policy representative
for the Asia/Pacific region at The Nature Conservancy;
an American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) Overseas
Science, Engineering, and Diplomacy Fellow in Fiji;
an environmental and science advisor for the U. S.
Agency for International Development’s (USAID)
South Pacific Regional Program; and as an AAAS Science,
Engineering, and Diplomacy Fellow at USAID. Her projects
include: Changing Hearts and Minds, an environment
and religion grassroots project with Christians for
Environmental
Stewardship (U.S. and PNG) in Papua New Guinea; the
development of Scientists Without Borders (a program
to link young scientists with international communities
in need of biodiversity research); and the biodiversity
advisor to the Congo River Environment and Development
Project. The project’s goal is to empower Congolese
institutions to improve the environment and quality
of life along the river, the world’s second most
important river for freshwater fish biodiversity. Recent
published works include: Forgotten Waters: Freshwater
and Marine Ecosystems
in Africa. Strategies for Biodiversity Conservation
and Sustainable Development (Biodiversity Support
Program, 1998), a publication supported by USAID, the
Biodiversity
Support Program (a consortium of World Wildlife Fund,
The Nature Conservancy, and World Resources Institute),
the New England Aquarium, and Boston University, and
Shumway, C.A., D. Musibono, S. Ifuta, J. Sullivan,
R. Schelly, J. Punga, J.-C. Palata, and V. Puema (2003).
Congo River Environment and Development Project (CREDP).
Biodiversity Survey: Systematics, Ecology, and
Conservation Along the Congo River. September–October
2002. Report
financed by USAID. CREDP is implemented by Innovative
Resources
Management. New England Aquarium Press, Boston.
is a member of Parliament in India (Rajya Sabha), a
leading law authority in India, and the founder of the
Supreme Court of India Bar Association Trust. Singhvi
holds earned and honorary degrees form fifteen universities
in the United States, India, and the United Kingdom.
He has served as India’s High Commissioner to the
United Kingdom (1991–1997) and has been awarded
the U Thant Peace Award (1995). He has been highly active
in the field of human rights and has published more
than sixty research papers and monographs including,
Freedom on Trial (Vikas Publishing House, 1991).
is
Associate Professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department
at Touro College in New York City and a member of its
Graduate Faculty of Jewish Studies. Over the past several
years, Sokol has participated in and taught or delivered
papers at various conferences and sessions on Judaism
and the environment. He is the author of numerous essays
on Jewish ethics and philosophy, and the editor of:
Engaging Modernity, Rabbinic Authority and Personal
Autonomy (J. Aronson, 1997) and Tolerance, Dissent,
and Democracy: Philosophical, Historical, and Halakhic
Perspectives (forthcoming).
is Professor of Liberal Arts in the Faculty of Arts
at Kyoto University. Born into a long lineage of Shinto
priests, Sonoda serves as the hereditary High Priest
(Guji) of the Chichibu Shrine in Saitama prefecture.
He received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. at Tokyo University.
He has taught in the Department of Shinto studies at
Kokugakuin University in Tokyo and has participated
as a representative of the Shinto community at the Earth
Summit conference in Rio de Janiero. Well-versed in
Western theorizing on ritual and religious experience,
Sonoda has brought a fresh, international approach to
the study of Shinto through his many publications.
is
a professor at the University of Hawaii, where he directs
the Ecological Anthropology Concentration, and the
Spiritual Ecology Concentration. He also teaches courses
on human ecology, tropical forest ecosystems, spiritual
ecology, peace studies, and human rights. He received
his B.A. in geology from Indiana University and his
M.A. and Ph.D. in Anthropology from Cornell University.
His research includes annual visits to southern Thailand
where he collaborates with colleagues at Prince of
Songkhla University on various aspects regarding the
relationship between religion and ecology. A former
recipient of a Fulbright grant, his research has also
focused on the role of sacred trees and sacred forests
in the conservation of biodiversity in southern Thailand.
His published works include: Tropical Deforestation:
The Human Dimension (Columbia University Press,
1996),
Indigenous Peoples and the Future of Amazonia:
An Ecological Anthropology of an Endangered World (University
of Arizona Press, 1995), and The Anthropology of
Peace and Non-violence (L. Rienner, 1994). Sponsel
has also contributed several articles to the Encyclopedia
of Religion and Nature (Continuum Press, 2003).
is the Charles and Harriet Cox McDowell
Professor of Religion at Swarthmore College. He teaches
courses in Asian and comparative religions. His research
interests include Buddhism and sacred mountain traditions
in Southeast Asia. He has contributed essays on Buddhism
and ecology to Earth Ethics 10, no. 1 (Fall 1998):
19-22 and Buddhism and Ecology (CSWR/Harvard
University Press, 1997), and has published books such
as, The Buddhist World of Southeast Asia (SUNY,
1995) and The Legend of Queen Cama (SUNY, 1998).
is a specialist in mathematical cosmology serving as
graduate faculty of the California Institute of Integral
Studies, in San Francisco. He received his Ph.D.
in Mathematical Cosmology from the University of
Oregon and is the author of The Universe is a
Green Dragon (Bear and Company, 1984), The
Hidden Heart of the Cosmos (Orbis, 1996), and co-author, with
Thomas Berry, of The Universe Story (HarperSanFrancisco,
1994, 1992). He has also produced a twelve-part video
series, Canticle to the Cosmos, that serves as a
masters level course on the evolutionary cosmos.
is Professor of Religious Studies and Director of the
Graduate Program in Native American Religious Studies
at the University of California, Santa Barbara; Director
of the Society for the Study of Native American Traditions,
and Managing Editor of New Scholar: Americanist Review.
She received her undergraduate and graduate degrees
from the University of California (San Diego) and has
taught at the University of California (San Diego),
Dartmouth College, Harvard University, and Wellesley
College. Her research has focused on field studies among
several American Indian nations.
is Professor of Religious Studies and Associate Dean
of the Graduate School at the University of Colorado,
Boulder. His published works include: The Illustrated
Encyclopedia of Chinese Confucianism (Rosen Publishing
Group, 2004); The Religious Dimensions of Confucianism (State University of New York Press, 1990); The
Confucian Way of Contemplation: Okada Takehiko and
the Tradition
of Quiet-Sitting (University of South Carolina Press,
1988); The Way of Heaven: An Introduction to
the Confucian Religious Life (Brill, 1986); The
Cultivation of Sagehood as a Religious Goal in Neo-Confucianism:
A Study of Selected Writings of Kao P’an-lung,
1562–1626 (Scholars Press, 1978); and two co-edited
volumes: with J. Watson, They Shall Not Hurt:
Human Suffering and Human Caring (Colorado Associated University
Press, 1989); and with Frederick M. Denny, The
Holy Book in Comparative Perspective (University of South
Carolina Press, 1985).
is Director of the Antioch New England Doctoral Program
in Environmental Studies, the founder and supervising
editor of Whole Terrain, an instructor of courses
on global environmental change, environmental thought,
ecological and cultural diasporas, and perception and
place; as well as an editorial board member of Terra
Nova, and a member of the Advisory Board of The
Orion Society. He is the author of Ecological Identity:
Becoming a Reflective Environmentalist (MIT Press,
1995), which offers an approach to environmental education
based on reflective practice that incorporates issues
of citizenship, ecological identity, and civic responsibility
within the framework of environmental studies. His research
interests include the educational and psycho-spiritual
dimensions of global environmental change. His recent
essays and reviews consider biospheric perception, the
local/global dialectic, the intellectual history of
global change studies, and place based environmental
education.
is Senior Lecturer and Research Scholar at Yale University where she has appointments in the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies as well as the Divinity School and the Department of Religious Studies. She is a co-founder and co-director with John Grim of the Forum on Religion and Ecology. Together they organized a series of ten conferences on World Religions and Ecology at the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School. They are series editors for the ten volumes from the conferences distributed by Harvard University Press. She is also Research Associate at the Harvard Yenching Institute and at the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard.She is the author of Worldly Wonder: Religions Enter Their Ecological Phase (Open Court Press, 2003), Moral and Spiritual Cultivation in Japanese Neo-Confucianism (SUNY, 1989) and The Philosophy of Qi (Columbia University Press, 2007). She co-edited Worldviews and Ecology (Orbis, 1994), Buddhism and Ecology (Harvard, 1997), Confucianism and Ecology (Harvard, 1998), Hinduism and Ecology (Harvard, 2000) and When Worlds Converge (Open Court, 2002). With Tu Weiming she edited two volumes on Confucian Spirituality (Crossroad, 2004). She also co-edited a Daedalus volume titled Religion and Ecology: Can the Climate Change? (2001). She edited Thomas Berry's book, Evening Thoughts: Reflecting on Earth as Sacred Community (Sierra Club Books and University of California Press, 2006).Since 1987 she has been a member of the Interfaith Partnership for the Environment at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). She served as a member of the International Earth Charter Drafting Committee from 1997-2000 and is currently a member of the Earth Charter International Council.
is
Director of the Harvard-Yenching Institute and Harvard-Yenching
Professor of Chinese History, Philosophy, and Confucian
Studies. He earned his Ph.D. in History and East Asian
Languages from Harvard University (1968) and has taught
at Princeton University and the University of California,
Berkeley.
Active in many public bodies, he has served
as: Chairman of the Committee on the Study of Religion
at Harvard
University; Chair of the Department of East Asian Languages
and Civilizations; Director of Culture and Communication
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