Oneness and Ecology
Speakers
MARY EVELYN TUCKER
Mary Evelyn Tucker is co-director of the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology and affiliated faculty with the Yale Center for Environmental Justice at the Yale School of the Environment. Her books include The Philosophy of Qi (Columbia University Press), Worldly Wonder: Religions Enter Their Ecological Phase (Open Court Press) and Ecology and Religion (Island Press). Along with her husband and colleague John Grim, she has received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society for Religion, Nature, and Culture.
NORMAN WIRZBA
Norman Wirzba is Gilbert T. Rowe Distinguished Professor of Christian Theology and Senior Fellow for the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University. He is the author of This Sacred Life: Humanity's Place in a Wounded World (Cambridge University Press) and Agrarian Spirit: Cultivating Faith, Community, and the Land (University of Notre Dame Press).
Moderators:
SHAHRZAD SABET
Shahrzad Sabet is Co-Director of the Center on Modernity in Transition (COMIT) and a Fellow at New York University’s Institute for Public Knowledge. Her current book project, which spans a variety of disciplines, makes the case for a reimagined universalism that reconciles the oneness and the diversity of humankind.
BENJAMIN SCHEWEL
Benjamin Schewel is Co-Director of the Center on Modernity in Transition (COMIT). He is author of Seven Ways of Looking at Religion (2017) and is currently working on a second book, Encountering the Axial Age, both from Yale University Press.
SPRING 2024 SPEAKER SERIES
The New Discourse on Oneness
The idea of oneness has emerged as an important concept within a growing number of scholarly debates. This series brings together a diverse group of leading thinkers to explore notions of oneness and to consider their implications for some of the pressing social and ethical questions we face today. Guided by the conviction that the principle of oneness contains rather than contradicts the robust expression of diversity, The New Discourse on Oneness invites dialogue across a wide spectrum of fields including physics and philosophy, history and ecology, as well as Black, Indigenous, Indian, and Chinese thought
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