Studies of religion ignore new upstart: ecospiritualism
Last semester I was fortunate to have attended a lecture at York Chapel in the Divinity School entitled "Religious Origins of the Environmental Crisis" by historian Thomas Berry. He is one of the leading ecospiritual writers of our time, and the lecture also would have been appropriate to have been given at the Nicholas School of the Environment. It is ironic, however, that at the foremost institution for interdisciplinary environmental research in the country there are no formal faculty affiliations with the Divinity School or the Department of Religion. I would like to suggest that this omission is a serious oversight and offer the following evidence in support of the development of such a relationship.