Plants and Religion


Perspectives on the academic study of plants and spirituality

WGPR Symposium Program

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 [...]

December 7th, 2011
Topic: General, Religion Tags: , , , ,

JSRNC – The Religious Lives of Amazonian Plants

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

October 24th, 2011
Topic: Anthropology, Religion Tags: , ,

Atheism and Animism Article in the Chronicle

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  

January 24th, 2011
Topic: Religion Tags: , ,