Plants and Religion

We are very happy to announce that program for the symposium has been put together. As announced before, the symposium will run from Dec 15-17, with a really exciting range of speakers and attendees. We’re very much looking forward to the event. If you’re interested in attending, please feel free to do so. Though there is no [...]

Welcome The Working Group on Plants and Religion at the University of Florida (UF) is hosting a symposium entitled “Multidisciplinary Approaches to Plants and Religion,” to be held 15-17 December 2011. The event will be relatively small and informal, consisting of sessions on specific topics, as well as a planning session to guide the future [...]

The Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture has given us the opportunity to make available the entire PDF version of their issue on “The Religious Lives of Amazonian Plants.”  We’re very excited to have it, and make it available! Full article here: JSRNC 3.1 – The Religious Lives of Amazonian Plants

The Chronicle put out an article recently that, among other things, touches on animism and animist worldviews.  While the article has a few distinctly debatable assertions, it’s still a relatively worthwhile read, taking to task the narrowness of certain aspects of the worldview espoused by modern atheism.  The article is here: The New Atheists’ Narrow Worldview  

The Kogi are what has been described as an example of a “priestly” culture.  They live today in the mountains of Columbia, and twenty years ago, they came down from their remote home to work with the BBC to produce a film called From the Heart of the World: The Elder Brother’s Warning.  It was a [...]