International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture

If you plan to attend AAR this year, we welcome you to join us for the Ecology, Nature, and Religion reception on Friday night!

Last day to submit your proposals for the 2025 ISSRNC Conference is today! Get your proposals in and come join us in Santa Barbara in June!

2025 CFP - International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture (ISSRNC) 2025 ISSRNC Conference – Call for Papers Crossing Borders, Transgressing Boundaries: Religion, Migration, and Climate Change 2025 Conference of the International Society for the...

Only one week left!! Don't forget to submit your proposal for the 2025 ISSRNC Conference by 30 September 2024!!

Crossing Borders, Transgressing Boundaries: Religion, Migration, and Climate Change
June 23 – 27, 2025 | University of California, Santa Barbara (USA)
We are pleased to announce that Ana Mariella Bacigalupo will be a featured keynote speaker for this event!
For more information and to submit your proposal please visit:

2025 CFP - International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture (ISSRNC) 2025 ISSRNC Conference – Call for Papers Crossing Borders, Transgressing Boundaries: Religion, Migration, and Climate Change 2025 Conference of the International Society for the...

SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED: 30 September 2024

ISSRNC is pleased to announce the CFP for our 2025 Conference:
Crossing Borders, Transgressing Boundaries: Religion, Migration, and Climate Change
June 23 – 27, 2025 | University of California, Santa Barbara (USA)

We are pleased to announce that Ana Mariella Bacigalupo will be a featured keynote speaker for this event!

For more information and to submit your proposal please visit: https://www.issrnc.org/conferences/2025-conference/2025-cfp/

If you have written/published a book this year that is a good fit for ISSRNC/JSRNC, or if you know someone else who has, please mention it in the comments below!

On the common threads of Teilhardian noospheric thought and Steve Bannon's dangerous religion.

Narrative Warfare and the Noosphere in Steve Bannon’s Populist Revolt - Counterpoint: Navigating Knowledge Narrative Warfare and the Noosphere in Steve Bannon’s Populist Revolt By Boris Shosh*taishvili and Lisa H. Sideris On July 1, the Supreme Court handed down a ruling that granted Donald Trump considerable immunity from prosecution for his role in the January 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol attack. Rightwing ...

We are very pleased to welcome the incoming ISSRNC Board Members:

Secretary: Chris Crews (Denison University)
Members at Large:
Mary Keller (University of Wyoming)
Victoria Machado (Rollins College)
Jeremy Sorgen (Mills College at Northeastern University)
Elaine Nogueira-Godsey (Drew University)
Student Representative: Sarah Nahar

We also want to say a special thanks to all of our outgoing Board Members who have served this organization for the past three (or more) years: Elizabeth Allison, Elonda Clay, Susannah Crockford, Robin Veldman, Carol Wayne White, and Jessica Beaudette.

Following the lectures Revd Prof James Keenan delivered at the Martin D’Arcy Memorial Lectures in June 2022, Campion Hall has the privilege of hosting his Book Launch & Lecture for The Moral Life” on Thursday 2nd May at 17:00.

This lecture offers attendees the perfect opportunity to hear Prof James Keenan delve into the eight stages of preparing for the moral life and offers valuable insight into his understanding of vulnerability. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/revd-prof-james-keenan-sj-the-moral-life-lecture-book-launch-tickets-880123191157?aff=oddtdtcreator

Please join us for the Religion & Ecology Summit focused on Q***r Ecologies and Religions, online April 9-10. The first day was 🔥🔥🔥Ticket link in comments.

CONFERENCE CFP: The conference, titled Radical Entanglements: Navigating the Abyss of Human Supremacy and Biodiversity Loss, will take place November 1-3, 2024.

We are thrilled to announce that Timothy Morton from Rice University will be our keynote speaker. We are also working with their publicists and the UNT Barnes & Noble to have a book signing at the conference.

Additionally, we will be working with the journal Relations Beyond Anthropocentrismto publish a special issue after the conference that incorporates presentations and responses.

We are also in the process of applying for a Mean Green Fund grant in order to organize and host an exhibition of art by UNT students that visually explores themes related to the conference. We are hoping to display this art in the Elm Fork exhibition hall for two weeks including the conference weekend. We are also working on finding a poet to perform at the opening of the conference.

The Graduate Student Conference Committee

Anna Kokareva, Hyun Yang, Isabelle Bishop, Kevin Siefert, Natan Feltrin, & Shoshana McIntosh

JOIN the ISSRNC Leadership! The Board of Directors seeks a new Secretary, Student Rep, and several At-Large members to serve three-year terms. Nominate yourself or another scholar to serve on the ISSRNC Board of Directors. Nominations are accepted through Monday, April 8. All Board members must have paid, active memberships. Submit nominations to secretary [at] issrnc [dot] org

Please consider submitting a proposal. More details in the comments.

Religion Friends - we have launched a new Seminar at the American Academy of Religion on Publicly Engaged Scholarship. We are inviting proposals for both the June virtual meetings and the November meetings in San Diego. Please share and spread the word!

Publicly Engaged Scholarship in the Study of Religion Seminar | PAPERS The Publicly Engaged Scholarship in the Study of Religion seminar invites paper and panel proposals focused on the politics of knowledge production, with a specific focus on publicly or community engaged research. Global socio-political tensions and the ongoing anthropogenic climate crisis require u...

If you are looking for a place to give an end of year donation, please consider the ISSRNC Scholarship Fund!

Donations made to the Scholarship Fund help us provide need-based financial support for graduate students and contingent faculty who wish to participate in ISSRNC conferences and related events but who do not have institutional support to do so. They also help support our merit based Graduate Student Paper award, which we present at each conference.

For more information or to make a donation, please visit us at: https://www.issrnc.org/product/scholarship-fund-add-on/

Happy Holidays from the ISSRNC!

Scholarship Fund (Add-on) - The International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture (ISSRNC) This option allows you to make an additional donation to support the ISSRNC Scholarship Fund. These donations will support Graduate Student Paper awards and allow the ISSRNC to provide need-based financial support for scholars to participate in ISSRNC conferences and related events.

Rev. Dr. Christopher Carter wowing a packed house at the ISSRNC/Religion, Nature, Ecology reception last night!

Mark your calendar!
If you are going to be at AAR next month, make sure you join us for the Ecology, Nature, and Religion Reception on Friday night! Featuring discussion on "Food, Faith, and Ethics" by Rev. Dr. Christopher Carter and Dr. Catherine Newell.

Job.

Director and Associate/Full Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability Director and Associate/Full Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability

JOBS at U. North Texas

Tenure track positions:

Philosophy and Religion (decolonial, Indigenous, Latinx thought or philosophy of race)
https://jobs.untsystem.edu/postings/77625
Jewish Studies Position, Director of Jewish Studies Program (candidates with research focused on Environmental Philosophy/Theology, Philosophy of Nature, Feminism, Latinx Thought, Social-Political Philosophy, History of Philosophy, Decolonial thought, Caribbean, or Afro-Jewish thought)
https://jobs.untsystem.edu/postings/77630

Lecturer position

(open but priority to candidates who can contribute to the department’s focus in Social and Environmental Philosophy, and who can teach the History of Philosophy, Ethical Theory, Logic and Critical Thinking, Feminism, and Philosophy of Art)
https://jobs.untsystem.edu/postings/77634

Lecturer (Continuing): Philosophy and Religion The Department of Philosophy and Religion is seeking a Lecturer to join the department in Fall 2024. The area of competency is open but with a with a preference for candidates who can contribute to the department’s focus in Social and Environmental Philosophy, and who can teach the History of Phil...

Of papal exhortations and wonder.

The pope's new letter isn't just an 'exhortation' on the environment – for Francis, everything is connected, which is a source of wonder Integral ecology, a holistic way of looking at problems the world faces today, is key in the pope’s writings about the environment.

Here's something interesting.

"Laudate Deum": Apostolic Exhortation to all people of good will on the climate crisis (4 October 2023) | Francis Laudate Deum: Apostolic Exhortation to all people of good will on the climate crisis, 4 October 2023

The University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI) seeks a Postdoctoral Scholar in Climate Communications and Environmental Justice. Located on the UC Irvine campus, UCHRI is the systemwide organization serving all 10 campuses in the UC system. The Postdoctoral Scholar will work in close collaboration with UCHRI personnel, School of Humanities partners, UC project scientists, and community groups as part of the Wildland-Urban Interface Climate Action Network (WUICAN). This position will engage in applied research and research-driven programming in the area of climate communications and environmental justice.

This full-time two-year appointment may begin as early as December 1, 2023. To review the full job posting and for application information:

Postdoctoral Scholar in Climate Communications and Environmental Justice University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!

We would like to congratulate Emma Frances Bloomfield and Samantha Senda-Cook for receiving the Christine L. Oravec Journal Article Award in Environmental Communication for their article “Building Coalitions from Shared Pieties: Polyvocal Religious Environmentalism at the Asian Rural Institute”, published earlier this year in JSRNC: https://doi.org/10.1558/jsrnc.20381

This article advances scholarly conversations in two areas: environmental communication practices beyond the north Atlantic, and religious environmental communication by explaining how shared pieties can animate Christian environmentalisms. The Committee was struck, too, by the fact that the article, “though distinctly EC scholarship” as the nominator put it, appears in an interdisciplinary outlet.

Building Coalitions from Shared Pieties: Polyvocal Religious Environmentalism at the Asian Rural Institute | Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture Building Coalitions from Shared Pieties Polyvocal Religious Environmentalism at the Asian Rural Institute Authors Samantha Senda-Cook Creighton University Emma Frances Bloomfield University of Nevada, Las Vegas DOI: https://doi.org/10.1558/jsrnc.20381 Keywords: piety, polyvocality, religious environ...

Job Opportunity:

The School of Interdisciplinary Programs and Community Engagement (SIPCE) at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley seeks applicants for a faculty position at the rank of assistant professor (tenure-track) or associate professor (tenured) for the 2024-2025 academic year.

The successful applicant will contribute primarily to SIPCE’s Mexican American Studies (MAS) Program and the Environmental Studies (ENST) Program through research, teaching, and service.

Preferred areas of expertise include but are not limited to: the impact of environmental and ecological disasters on Mexican American, Hispanic, Latinx, AfroLatinidad, and/or Indigenous communities; climate change and migration; environmental and health disparities in North/Central America and/or the U.S-Mexico borderlands; intersectional environmentalism; intersectional sustainability, eco-feminism; environmental policies and governance; environmental issues, agriculture, and food (in)security; and/or K-12 environmental education.

The successful applicant will have a track-record of high-quality, innovative research and scholarship, as well as have demonstrated teaching excellence and experience at the university level that includes a combination of different modalities (e.g. face-to-face, hybrid, online).

Candidates at the rank of associate professor must have a recognized and sustained track record of research—including community-engaged research—and scholarship. Candidates at the rank of assistant professor must demonstrate potential for independent research and high-quality scholarship in peer-reviewed venues.

The successful applicant will be expected to teach existing classes such as “Introduction to Mexican American Studies,” “Introduction to Environmental Studies,” “Research Methods in Mexican American/Chicanx/Latinx Studies,” and “Special Topics in Mexican American Studies.” The successful applicant will also be able to develop new courses in their areas of expertise. Research and teaching expertise complementing that of SIPCE faculty is preferred.

Assistant/Associate Professor, School of Interdisciplinary Programs and Community Engagement (SIPCE)/ College of Liberal Arts (CLA) The School of Interdisciplinary Programs and Community Engagement (SIPCE) at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley seeks applicants for a faculty position at the rank of assistant professor (tenure-track) or associate professor (tenured) for the 2024-2025 academic year.The successful applicant w...

Assistant Professor of Religion and Science

Rice University: School of Humanities: Religion

Houston, Texas
Open Date
Sep 01, 2023

Description
The Department of Religion at Rice University invites applications for an Assistant Professor (TT) in the area of Science and Religion. “Science” in this sense is broadly understood to include a variety of disciplinary and methodological domains, such as the Philosophy of Science and Religion, the History of Science and Religion, Cognitive Science and Religion, Neuroscience and Religion, Religion and Environmental Science, and Religion and the Medical Humanities. Priority will be given to applicants whose work gives significant attention to questions of race, gender, or sexuality. Focuses on geographic area and religious tradition(s) are open, though applicants should be prepared to teach courses that reflect cultural and social diversity as well as methods in the study of religion. Excellence in teaching and research is expected. Rice is committed to diversity and inclusion, and women and historically underrepresented minority candidates are especially encouraged to apply. ..

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