The emerging alliance of religion and ecology
The Religion Department will host scholar Mary Evelyn Tucker as the college’s annual Martin Lecturer. Her address, entitled “The Emerging Alliance of Religion and Ecology,” will take place in the Holman Room of Mary Lyon Hall at 7 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 22.
The intersection of science and religion will be the subject of the 20th annual Martin Lecture in Religion, which will be delivered by Mary Evelyn Tucker, a senior lecturer and scholar at the Yale School of Environmental and Forestry Studies and the Yale Divinity School.
Tucker's lecture, "The Emerging Alliance of Religion and Ecology," will be held in the Holman Room, Mary Lyon Hall, at 7 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 22.
The Yale professor is a co-founder and co-director, with John Grim, of the Forum on Religion and Ecology. Together they organized a series of conferences on world religions and ecology at the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School. Tucker and Grim are the series editors for the ten volumes from the conferences distributed by Harvard University Press. She is Research Associate at the Harvard Yenching Institute and at the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies.
Tucker is the author of Worldly Wonder: Religions Enter Their Ecological Phase (Open Court Press, 2003), Moral and Spiritual Cultivation in Japanese Neo-Confucianism (SUNY, 1989) and The Philosophy of Qi.(Columbia University Press, 2007). She has served as editor or co-editor of numerous other works, including Worldviews and Ecology (Orbis, 1994), Buddhism and Ecology (Harvard, 1997), Confucianism and Ecology (Harvard, 1998), and Hinduism and Ecology (Harvard, 2000) and When Worlds Converge (Open Court, 2002).
Until 2005, Tucker was a professor of religion at Bucknell University where she taught courses in Asian religions and Religion and Ecology. She is a member of the Interfaith Partnership for the Environment at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and served as a member of the International Earth Charter Drafting Committee from 1997-2000. She is a member of the newly appointed Earth Charter International Council. B.A. Trinity College, M.A. SUNY Fredonia, M.A. Fordham University, PhD Columbia University.
