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[The Inaugural Ecological Spiritualities Conference](/conferences/2022-ecological-spiritualities "Inaugural Conference on "Ecological Spiritualities" ") will take place Wednesday-Saturday, April 27-30, 2022. Please find our speakers and the titles of their presentations below.

- Adekogbe, Bosun "An Ecological Examination of Musicality and Spirituality in Winners’ Mega Chapel, Nigeria"
- Adhikari, Jagannath “Kisan (Farmer's) Dharma: Ecological Practices Informed by Hindu-Buddhist Religions and Biodiversity Conservation”
- Africa, Mike Jr. (panel with Anthony Fiscella, Gillian Moise, J.T. Roane) “The MOVE Organization, Ecology, and “Religion”
- Agrawal, Rashi (with Shraddha Upadhyay) "From Ecological Awareness to Being Ecology: Integrative Approaches to Environmental Activism Aided by Contemplative Practices"
- Ajose, Toyin Samuel "Music, Ori-Oke Spirituality, and Environmentalism Among Yoruba Pentecostals in Ibadan, Southwest Nigeria"
- Aleknaitė, Eglė "Respect to Nature in a Lithuanian Contemporary Pagan Community: a Useful Cultural Resource with No Call to Action"
- Angeli, Maria A. "The Five Elements in ‘Unity Singing & Circle Dance’ Practices: Living & Celebrating Ecological Spirituality"
- Anguiano, J.M. (with S. Anguiano) “Evolutive Agriculture Method: a Decade of Research and Results in México”
- Anguiano, S. (with J.M. Anguiano) “Evolutive Agriculture Method: a Decade of Research and Results in México”
- Anthony, Carl C. (with Paloma Pavel and Brandon P. Holmes) "The Universe Story: Climate Justice and the Next Generation" and "Embodying Eco-Spiritual and Eco-Justice practice: Leadership Training for Environment and Climate Justice"
- Assadourian, Erik "Growing a Deeper Environmental Movement Via a Gaian Missionary Religion"
- Baker, Shane “Encounters with Immanence: Ecodelic Experience, Temperament, and the Ambiguous Aspirations of Gaia"
- Barrywood, Kristal "Understanding Environmentalism in Pagan Paths and its Effects on Altruism in Rituals"
- Barstow, Geoffrey "Challenging Buddhist Assumptions of Human Superiority"
- Berger, Helen (panel with Caroline Tully, Giovanna Parmigiani, Barbara Jane Davy, Bron Taylor) "The Earth is Our Mother: Contemporary Paganisms and Environmentalism"
- Berger, Helen (panel with Sabina Magliocco and Sarah M. Pike) "Being Pagan; Being of the Land: Ecospirituality and Earth-Based Activities among Contemporary Pagans"
- Bernard, Oluwabunmi Tope "Representations of Climate Change and Environmental Issues in Selected Yorùbá Sacred Orature Forms"
- Bhutia, Kalzang Dorjee "Caring for the Valley of Abundance: Environmental History as a Resource for Emerging Environmental Ethics in Sikkim, India"
- Bilecky, Emma Lietz “In the World and of the World: Thinking, Caring, and Mapping with Soils"
- Boudell, Jere A. "Sacred Botany, Sacred Grief: Plants as Conduits of Hope and Sorrow in Modern Paganism"
- Box, Gwyneth (with Lucia Moreno-Velo) "Prayer Writing for the Modern World"
- Braga, Thiago "Tea Art, Empirical Philosophy: Ethnographic Observations from Kunming, China"
- Brown, Ras Michael "Grounding African/American Spiritualities: Ecology and Indigeneity in Early African American Religions"
- Burschel, Maria "Covert Hegemonic Masculinity, Spiritual Growth and Non-Violent Communication in EcoVillages and Intentional Communities"
- Butcher, A. Allen "Partnership Spirituality: Revering as Sacred the Balance of Heaven and Earth in Binarian Monotheism”
- Camara, Bintou "Nalu Spiritual Revival in Guinea"
- de Carvalho, Ícaro Célio (with Luiz Carlos Demattê Filho, Cecilia Mitie Ifuki Mendes, Rafael Araújo Nacimento) "Agrifood System of Poultry Production"
- Chakour, Vanessa (with Àdhamh Ó Broin) "Reclaiming Scottish Gaelic Cosmology is Environmental Activism"
- Chakour, Vanessa "Rethinking Weeds: The Spiritual, Cultural, and Medicinal Significance of Common Plants"
- Cordes, Colleen (with Lucy Cordes Engelman and Robert Engelman) "Art, Joy, Mystery, in Workshop and Performance: One Family's Approach Towards Becoming Earth"
- Cordes Engelman, Lucy (with Colleen Cordes and Robert Engelman) "Art, Joy, Mystery, in Workshop and Performance: One Family's Approach Towards Becoming Earth"
- Cordovil, Daniela “Ecological Spiritualities and Contemporary Art”
- Couture, Jim "Awakening An Ecological Spirituality Through Songs"
- Cunningham, Hilary (with Stephen Scharper) "Rebordering Sanctuary: Multispecies Communities and the Sacred"
- Dahill, Lisa E. "Holy Shit: Lutheran Carnality and Thinking like a Tree"
- Das, Ritupurna “The God of All Things”
- Davidson, Samuel “Toward a Theological Ecopsychology: An Intellectualand Eco-Spiritual Narrative”
- Davy, Barnard Jane (panel with Helen Berger, Caroline Tully, Giovanna Parmigiani, Bron Taylor) "The Earth is Our Mother: Contemporary Paganisms and Environmentalism"
- Dean, Dorothy "Climate Grief and the Secular Spirituality of Earth-Mourning"
- Demattê Filho, Luiz Carlos (with Marica de Melo and Sakae Kinjo) "Johrei And Establishing the Soil-plant Balance in the Nature Farming System"
- Demattê Filho, Luiz Carlos (with Ícaro Célio de Carvalho, Cecilia Mitie Ifuki Mendes, and Rafael Araújo Nacimento) "Agrifood System of Poultry Production"
- Denley, Elizabeth (with Kamlesh Patel and Alain Desvigne) "Heartfulness Practices for Regenerative Development"
- Desvigne, Alain (with Elizabeth Denley and Kamlesh Patel) "Heartfulness Practices for Regenerative Development"
- Dwivedi, P.S. (with Pankaj Kumar Verma) "Revisiting the Eco-Spiritual Wisdoms of the Rāmāyaṇa: An Aesthetical Exploration"
- El-Mecky, Nausikaä (panel with Ruby Guyatt, Deja Newton, Yohana Agra Junker, and Santiago Zabala) "The Mysticism of Eco-Fascism: The Self-Contradictory ‘Mystical ’Aesthetics of Eco-Fascism"
- Engelman, Robert (with Lucy Cordes Engelman and Colleen Cordes) "Art, Joy, Mystery, in Workshop and Performance: One Family's Approach Towards Becoming Earth"
- Fahm, Abdul Gafar Olawale "Ecological Spirituality Representations in Jalal Al-Din Rumi's Mathnawi"
- Fatima, Ummel Khair (with Ershadd Uddin) “The Implications of Islamic Shari’ah Law in Perseverance of the Ecosystem through the Essence of Spirituality."
- Ferrara, Mark S. “Green Consciousness: Contemplative Practices and Expressions of Eco-Spirituality at EcoVillage Ithaca”
- Fici, Christopher L. "I Am the Original Fragrance of the Earth: Regenerative Ecotheology, Regenerative Intimacy, and the Eros of Earthiness"
- Fiscella, Anthony T. (panel Mike Africa Jr, Gillian Moise, and J.T. Roane) "Lie by Omission: How Religious and Environmentalism Studies Whitewashed MOVE Out of History”
- Forbes, Chantal Noa "Reclaiming Spiritual Identity in Native Place: Indigenous Food Sovereignty and the Ontology of Dwelling in GATHER"
- Forchu, Ijeoma "The Changing Religious Pattern: Musical Supplications to the Earth Goddess"
- Freeman, Erik J. "Radical Religion and Conservative Ecology: The Environmental and Spiritual Roots of the Oneida Community’s Transition from Communalism to Capitalism During the Nineteenth Century"
- French, Matt "Contemplative ‘Eco-Spiritual’ Retreats: Reorienting Ecological Consciousness through Vipassana Meditation and ‘Nature Based Practice’ in the Foothills of the Catalan Pyrenees"
- Garcia, Ashley (with Daniel Joslyn) "Vegetarianism and Socialist Spiritualities in the Long Nineteenth-Century"
- Gebara, Maria Fernanda "From Crisis to Cosmos: The Role of Amazonian Plant Medicines in Changing Our Ecological Damaging Attitudes"
- Gekas, William (Billy) J. “Introducing a Theology of Relational Accountability: An Eco-Centric Anti-Colonial Theological Methodology"
- Greer, J. Christian "Psychedelic Pasts & Fascist Futures: The Secret History of the Deep Ecology Movement"
- Grey, Peter "How To Live In A World On Fire"
- Guyatt, Ruby (panel with Nausikaä El-Mecky, Deja Newton, Yohana Agra Junker, and Santiago Zabala) "The Mysticism of Eco-Fascism: The Eco-Fascist Apocalyptic Imaginary"
- Gyal, Huatse (panel with Xiao Ke-Schutte and Loretta Lou) "Ecological Spiritualities in Asia"
- Gyaltsen, Zamlha Tempa “Belief in Sacred Mountains in Tibet”
- Halstead, John "The Greening of Paganism"
- Haugen, Geneen Marie "The Re-Emergence of Animate World Experiences"
- Holmes, Brandon P. (with Paloma M. Pavel and Carl C. Anthony) "The Universe Story: Climate Justice and the Next Generation" and "Embodying Eco-Spiritual and Eco-Justice practice: Leadership Training for Environment and Climate Justice"
- Jaoudi, Maria "The Many Realities of Consciousness: Intellectual, Spiritual, Aesthetic"
- Jha, Smita (with Padm Nabh Trivedi) "Demystifying the Non-anthropocentric Ecological Spirituality: Deep Ecology and Bhagavadgita"
- Joslyn, Daniel (with Ashley Garcia) "Vegetarianism and Socialist Spiritualities in the Long Nineteenth-Century"
- Junker, Yohanna Agra (panel with Ruby Guyatt, Nausikaä El-Mecky, Deja Newton, and Santiago Zabala) "The Mysticism of Eco-Fascism: Indigenous Resistance Against Bolsonaro’s Eco-Facism"
- Kalvig, Anne Kathrine "Back to Blood: Pursuing a Future from the Norse Past"
- Kanu, Ikechukwu Anthony "Igbo-African Eco-Spirituality: An Indigenous Response to Modern Ecological Crisis"
- Kariko, Sarah "Wisdom of the Web: Reflections from Studying Spiders and Exploring our Interconnectedness"
- Ke-Schutte, Xiao (panel with Loretta Lou, and Huatse Gyal) "Ecological Spiritualities in Asia"
- Kinjo, Sakae Kinjo (with Luiz Carlos Demattê Filho and Marica de Melo) "Johrei And Establishing the Soil-plant Balance in the Nature Farming System"
- Konrad, Tatiana "Religion, Climate Crisis, and the Ambiguity of Biblical Allusions in Cli-Fi"
- Kramer, Henry “Cultivating Wonder as Embodied Practice"
- Lin, Ru-Yu "Beliefs, Sustainability, Crisis and Feminine Ecological Spiritualities"
- Lou, Loretta (panel with Huatse Gyal and Xiao Ke-Schutte) "Ecological Spiritualities in Asia"
- Magliocco, Sabina (panel with Helen Berger and Sarah M. Pike) "Being Pagan; Being of the Land: Ecospirituality and Earth-Based Activities among Contemporary Pagans"
- Mallick, Ata “The Concept of Nature, Ecology, and the Santal Tribe”
- Mathiassen, Silje Trym "Sacred Plants – Spiritual Experiences: Ritual Practices with Entheogenic Plants"
- de Melo, Marica (with Sakae Kinjo and Luiz Carlos Demattê Filho) "Johrei And Establishing the Soil-plant Balance in the Nature Farming System"
- Mendes, Cecilia Mitie Ifuki (with Ícaro Célio de Carvalho, Luiz Carlos Demattê Filho, and Rafael Araújo Nacimento) "Agrifood System of Poultry Production"
- Moise, Gillian (panel with Mike Africa Jr, Anthony Fiscella, and J.T. Roane) "The Radical Ecologies of the MOVE Organization and the Contemporary Black Lives Matter Movement"
- Mondragón, Delores (Lola) "Rematriation in the Time of MMIW2S Soldiers"
- Montalvo, Marcelo Garzo "Tlalocantecuhtli-Chalchihuitlicue: Ceremonial Dance as (Agro-)Ecology and Watershed Consciousness"
- Moreno-Velo, Lucia (with Gwyneth Box) "Prayer Writing for the Modern World"
- Mortensen, Eric "The Resurgence of Nature-Based Folk Religion in Light of Ecological Trauma in the Lingering Buddhist Vacuum of Tibetan Communities in Gyalthang"
- Murad, Munjed "Love and the Cosmos: Rumi on Perceiving Love, Nature’s Animating Force"
- Nacimento, Rafael Araújo (with Ícaro Célio de Carvalho, Luiz Carlos Demattê Filho, and Cecilia Mitie Ifuki Mendes) "Agrifood System of Poultry Production"
- Naqvi, Samia "The Mythologised Horse of Karbalah - Past Imaginings, Continuing Legacies: A Study of Shi’ite Oral Tradition Through ‘Nohay"’
- Newton, Deja (panel with Ruby Guyatt, Nausikaä El-Mecky, Yohana Agra Junker, and Santiago Zabala) "The Mysticism of Eco-Fascism: The History of Eco-Facism and Its Spirituality"
- Nono, Grace “The Mountain and the Healer: An Ethnography of Human and Nonhuman Relations”
- Ó Broin, Àdhamh (with Vanessa Chakour) "Reclaiming Scottish Gaelic Cosmology is Environmental Activism"
- Ofodu, Graceful Onovughe "SpirituaLiterary Strategies of Environmental Activism: A Discourse in EcoCriticism"
- Olsen, Steven L. “Sacred Time and Sacred Space: Emergence of a Latter-day Saint Cosmology, a Textual Inquiry”
- Oxendine, Jamie Keith "South East Woodland American Indian Designs and Body Decoration: Pre-Contact and Contact"
- Parmigiani, Giovanna (panel with Helen Berger, Caroline Tully, Barbara Jane Davy, Bron Taylor) "The Earth is Our Mother: Contemporary Paganisms and Environmentalism"
- Patel, Kamlesh (with Alain Desvigne and Elizabeth Denley) "Heartfulness Practices for Regenerative Development"
- Pavel, Paloma M. (with Carl C. Anthony and Brandon P. Holmes) "The Universe Story: Climate Justice and the Next Generation" and "Embodying Eco-Spiritual and Eco-Justice practice: Leadership Training for Environment and Climate Justice"
- Pertillar, Tammy Lynn "Ecological Spirituality in Ojibwe Cultural Practices"
- Peters, Ralph "The Ecological Spirituality of William Irwin Thompson: From Celtic Animism to Gaian Cultural Ecologies"
- Pike, Sarah M. (panel with Helen Berger and Sabina Maggliocco) "Being Pagan; Being of the Land: Ecospirituality and Earth-Based Activities among Contemporary Pagans"
- Poore, Adelaida "Reclaiming Abundance in a World of Scarcity"
- Ramirez, Catalina "Environmental Awareness Program: Re-establishing the Bond with Planet Earth"
- Ray, Ricky “Identity Earth”
- Ritchlin, Sheri "Yijing and Confucian Roots of the Ecozoic Era”
- Rietze, Daniel "Getting Green with Mary: Towards An Eco-Mariology for the Third Millennium"
- Roane, J.T. (panel Mike Africa Jr, Anthony Fiscella, and Gillian Moise) "Black Esoteric Religious Life and Narratives of Debility in Neoliberal Philadelphia Whitewashed MOVE Out of History"
- Robinson, Jim "Living Laudato Si’ While Evolving Beyond It: Embodying a Feminist “Integral Ecology” at Agape Community and Benincasa Community"
- Rourke, Vicki "Hiberno-Celtic Spirituality Ecological Connections and Disconnections"
- Sarbacker, Stuart Ray "The Past, Present, and Future of “Green Yoga”
- Scharper, Stephen (with Hilary Cunningham) "Rebordering Sanctuary: Multispecies Communities and the Sacred"
- Schunemann, Mark Juhan "Replanting Christ: A Theological Comparison of the Native American Church and the Santo Daime"
- Schwien, Natalia "White Sage and White Supremacy: Spiritual Appropriation in Modern Herbalism"
- Seely, Christina "Next of Kin: The Role of Contemporary Art in Evolving Ecological Spiritualities"
- Strmiska, Michael "Eco-Spiritual or Ethno-National? Reflections on the Interplay Between Ethnic Identity and Environmental Concerns in Modern European Paganism and Japanese Shinto"
- Tarwater, Rev. Bonnie "Welcome and God loves you and there is nothing you can do about it!"
- Taylor, Bron (panel with Helen Berger, Caroline Tully, Giovanna Parmigiani, Barbara Jane Davy) "The Earth is Our Mother: Contemporary Paganisms and Environmentalism"
- Tillman, Trish "Childfree for the Environment: A Viable Path in Catholicism or Gaudiya Vaishnavism?"
- Titus, Olusegun Stephen “The Place of Egbesu Religious Songs”
- Trivedi, Padm Nabh (with Smita Jha) "Demystifying the Non-anthropocentric Ecological Spirituality: Deep Ecology and Bhagavadgita"
- Tully, Caroline (panel with Helen Berger, Giovanna Parmigiani, Barbara Jane Davy, Bron Taylor) "The Earth is Our Mother: Contemporary Paganisms and Environmentalism"
- Tsukamoto, Chihiro Larissa "Love and Light? How New Age Practices Exploit Vulnerable Populations and Environments"
- Uddin, Ershad "The Implications of Islamic Shari’ah Law in Perseverance of the Ecosystem through the Essence of Spirituality."
- Ugagu-Dominic, Nneka Rachel "Mitigating Environmental Challenges Through Faith Communities in Uyo South-Southern Nigeria"
- Upadhyay, Shraddha (with Rashi Agrawal) "From Ecological Awareness to Being Ecology: Integrative Approaches to Environmental Activism Aided by Contemplative Practices"
- Verma, Pankaj Kumar (with P. S. Dwivedi) "Revisiting the Eco-Spiritual Wisdoms of the Rāmāyaṇa: An Aesthetical Exploration"
- Warman, Ryan Indigo (with Megan Rose Woolever) "Re-wilding the Pagan Soul: Albion, Eco-Psychology and the Epigenetic Memory of Place"
- Watkin, Elizabeth "Trauma, Shamanism, and Empowerment"
- Whitaker, James Andrew “Mastery and Motherhood: Animist Landscapes and Ontological Relations among the Makushi”
- Wikström, Tiina "Studying the Notion of Ecologue within Native American Literary Studies and Social Services"
- Woolever, Megan Rose "Re-wilding the Pagan Soul: Albion, Eco-Psychology and the Epigenetic Memory of Place"
- Wooten, Zachary (with Alexis Zimmerman) "Leadership, Spirituality, and Environmental Activism: A Comparative Case Study of Rev. Sally Bingham and Ogyen Trinley Dorje"
- Yampolsky, Sofya "Tierra Encantada: Enchanted Earth, Enchanted Body in New Mexican Flamenco"
- Yu, Dan Smyer "Trans-Himalayan New Spiritual Ecology: Symbiotic Indigeneity in the Anthropocene"
- Zabala, Santiago (panel with Ruby Guyatt, Nausikaä El-Mecky, Deja Newton, and Yohana Agra Junker) "The Mysticism of Eco-Fascism: Eco-Facism’s Global Return to Order"
- Zimmerman, Alexis (with Zachary Wooten) "Leadership, Spirituality, and Environmental Activism: A Comparative Case Study of Rev. Sally Bingham and Ogyen Trinley Dorje"
- Zinzendorf, Bro. Johannes "The Hermitage, A Harmonist Community"