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Theories of Land Articles

Theology and the Environmental Humanities

Series: Theories of Land
Evan Berry
August 17, 2023January 25, 2024

The concepts that ground contemporary scholarly conversations about the cultural roots of the climate crisis are saturated with theological questions.

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Religious Multiplicity in the Environmental Humanities Classroom: A Letter to My Students

Series: Theories of Land
Amanda Baugh
August 10, 2023January 25, 2024

A major goal of this class is to help us identify and challenge the unmarked assumptions that have led to such limited notions of who can be an environmentalist and what can count as environmentalism.

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Resilience: Ecology and Morality on Climate-Vulnerable Coasts

Series: Theories of Land
Hillary Kaell and Phillip Campanile
August 8, 2023

Although more studies of religion are reproducing resilience as an empirical category, there is little debate about what it means and how it is being used.

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Enacting Indigenous Ontologies

Series: Theories of Land
Jeremy Sorgen
August 3, 2023January 27, 2024

Settler moves to innocence exonerate settler cultures from responsibility without having to forfeit privilege and power.

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Decolonizing the Tabernacle

Series: Theories of Land
Elisha Chi
August 2, 2023January 27, 2024

What does it mean for Jesus to be materially and physically supported by land soaked in the blood of enslavement and genocide?

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Living on Indigenous Lands: (Re)Considering Relations with Occupied Lands

Series: Theories of Land
Abel R. Gomez
July 27, 2023January 25, 2024

Considering our relations and responsibilities to land invites us to make other choices, ones that might guide us, perhaps, towards being in good relations with the land and the Indigenous peoples of that place.

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Black Women and the Political Performance for Environmental, Territorial, and Human Rights on the Pacific Coast of Colombia

Series: Theories of Land
Kaché H. Claytor
July 25, 2023February 1, 2024

Black women have been at the forefront of authoring pathways to futurity through their care work, spiritual customs, performance cultures, aesthetic practices, philosophies, and activist movements.

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More Than a Land of Open Graves: How the Sonoran Desert Refuses Capture

Series: Theories of Land
Barbara Sostaita
July 20, 2023

The desert’s sacred energies are an unruly affront to enforcement agents who seek possession or mastery.

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Introduction to Theories of Land

Series: Theories of Land
Dana Lloyd
July 20, 2023August 17, 2023

We need to listen to the land itself in order to theorize better, in order to live better.

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