The Alliance of Religion & Ecology

March 16, 2006
Beyond Environmentalism: Envisioning a Sustainable and Desirable Future
Mary Evelyn Tucker is a professor of religion at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, where she teaches courses in world religions, Asian religions, and religion and ecology. She received her Ph.D. from Columbia University in the history of religions specializing in Confucianism in Japan. She has published Moral and Spiritual Cultivation in Japanese Neo-Confucianism (SUNY, 1989). She co-edited Worldviews and Ecology (Orbis Books, 1994) with John Grim, Buddhism and Ecology (Harvard/CSWR, 1997) with Duncan Williams, Confucianism and Ecology: The Interrelation of Heaven, Earth, and Humans (CSWR, 1998) with John Berthrong, and Hinduism and Ecology (forthcoming) with Christopher Key Chapple. She and John Grim are directing the series of twelve conferences on Religions of the World and Ecology at Harvard's Center for the Study of World Religions. They are also editors for a series on Ecology and Justice from Orbis Press.

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