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

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.

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.

Epistemology of the Close, Epistemology of the Far

Series: Religion and Modernity during COVID-19

Martin Kavka
June 2, 2020January 27, 2024

The blood of Jesus may indeed have ontological properties that cure every disease, but it is the epistemological story about this cure that is more vexing for the Christian than the ontology of disease.

Painted into a Corner by the Blood of the Lord

Series: Religion and Modernity during COVID-19

Robert Orsi
April 29, 2020January 26, 2024

I accept the ontology of facts as given: she continues to shop at Walmart in a pandemic because she is protected by the blood of the Lord in which she has been washed.

Articles tagged as "Ontology"

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

Enacting Indigenous Ontologies

Epistemology of the Close, Epistemology of the Far

Painted into a Corner by the Blood of the Lord