John Grim

Biographic Data

ID1644403
NAMEJohn Grim
GIVEN NAMESJohn
FAMILY NAMEGrim
SIGNATUREGRIM J
AFFILIATIONSBucknell University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS33
TOTAL CITATIONS20
AUTHOR COUNT31
EDITOR COUNT2
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1982
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX3

  • Indigenous Cosmovisions and a Humanist Perspective on Materialism

    John GrimCHAPTEREarthly Things2023

  • Indigenous Cosmovisions and a Humanist Perspective on Materialism

    John GrimCHAPTEREarthly Things2023

  • Earthly Things: Immanence, New Materialisms, and Planetary Thinking

    Carol Wayne White, O'neil Van Horn et al.BOOKEarthly Things2023

    Globalization and climate weirding are two of the leading phenomena that challenge and change the way we need to think and act within the planetary community. Modern Western understand­ings of human beings, animals, and the rest of the natural world and the subsequent technologies built on those understandings have thrown us into an array of social and ecological crises with planetary implications. Earthly Things: Immanence, New Materialisms, and…

  • Living Earth Community: Multiple Ways of Being and Knowing

    Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim Sam Mickey, Sam Mickey et al.BOOKLiving Earth Community2020

    This book is a celebration of the diversity of ways in which humans can relate to the world around them, and an invitation to its readers to partake in planetary coexistence. Innovative, informative, and highly accessible, this interdisciplinary anthology of essays brings together scholars, writers and educators across the sciences and humanities, in a collaborative effort to illuminate the different ways of being in the world and the different k…

  • Sensing, Minding, and Creating

    Open AccessJohn GrimCHAPTERLiving Earth Community2020

    Drawing on the wisdom of indigenous traditions and the world’s religions, John Grim proposes a triad for understanding the world without separating nature from culture. All things exhibit capacities for external interaction (sensing) and an inner patterning or consciousness (minding), and those external and internal facets change over time as novel conditions arise (creating). The emergence of life from matter and of humans from other life forms …

  • Thomas Berry: A Biography

    Mary Evelyn Tucker, John Grim et al.BOOKThomas Berry2019

    Thomas Berry (1914–2009) was one of the twentieth century’s most prescient and profound thinkers. The first biography of Berry, this book illuminates his remarkable vision and its continuing relevance for achieving transformative social change and environmental renewal.

  • Routledge Handbook of Religion and Ecology

    Willis J Jenkins, Willis Jenkins et al.BOOKRoutledge Handbook of Religion…2016

  • Ecology and Religion

    John Grim, Mary Evelyn TuckerBOOKEcology and Religion2014

    From the Psalms in the Bible to the sacred rivers in Hinduism, the natural world has been integral to the world's religions. John Grim and Mary Tucker argue that today's growing environmental challenges make the relationship ever more vital. In this concise primer, they illustrate religion's role in sustaining people and the planet. The authors explore the history of religious traditions and the environment, illustrating how religious teachings a…

  • The roles of religions in activating an ecological consciousness

    Open AccessJohn GrimARTICLEInternational Social Science…2011References: 3

  • Indigenous Lifeways and Knowing the World

    John A Grim, John GrimCHAPTERThe Oxford Handbook Of Religion…2009

    This article seeks to explore selected examples of diverse indigenous ways of knowing the world. It acknowledges differences not only among indigenous ways of knowing but also between indigenous knowledge and systems of knowing within industrial–technological societies. This latter difference is especially evident with regard to the presentation and organization of indigenous knowledge using the ideas and methods of Western, Enlightenment thought…

  • Indigenous Traditions

    John A Grim, John GrimBOOKThe Oxford handbook of religion…2006

  • An Overview of Teilhard’s Commitment to ‘Seeing’ as Expressed in his Phenomenology, Metaphysics, and Mysticism

    John Grim, Mary Evelyn TuckerARTICLEJournal for the Study of Religion…2005

    Using Teilhard’s emphasis on ‘seeing’ this article explores Teilhard de Chardin’s articulation of a vision of evolution as a dynamic process in which the psychic character of physical matter evolves into ever-greater complexity and consciousness. Teilhard proposed that evolutionary complexity-consciousness is especially evident in the appearance of humans. This work considers the significance of complexity-consciousness for Teilhard as an emergen…

  • Shamanism

    John GrimCHAPTER2003

  • Cosmology and Native North American Mystical Traditions

    Open AccessJohn A Grim, John GrimARTICLEThéologiques2002

    Different indigenous nations in North America provide examples of mystical participation in the processes of creation. Some observers dismiss native communities as fragmented or romantically reimaged as "ecological Indians", yet, the tenacity of their religious insights deserve attention. Intellectually framed in images of interactions between specific peoples with particular geographical places, these images are also embedded in dynamic performa…

  • The Animals Came Dancing: Native American Sacred Ecology and Animal Kinship. Howard Harrod

    John A Grim, John GrimARTICLEThe Journal of Religion2001Cited by: 1

  • Indigenous Traditions and Ecological Ethics in Earth's Insights

    John A Grim, John GrimARTICLEWorldviews Global Religions…1997Cited by: 3References: 2

    Using the term, lifeway, this article emphasises the cosmology-cum-economy coherence of indigenous traditions. It explores the role of indigenous traditions in the formation of a global ecological ethic as put forward by J. Baird Callicott in his work, Earth's Insights. Recommending a cosmological approach, the article makes connections to advocacy issues. Finally, the significance of ordinary life in indigenous societies is foregrounded as the a…

  • The Christian Tradition: Beyond Its European Captivity

    John A Grim, John Grim et al.ARTICLEBuddhist-Christian Studies1996

  • Cultural Identity, Authenticity, and Community Survival: The Politics of Recognition in the Study of Native American Religions

    John A Grim, John GrimARTICLEThe American Indian Quarterly1996Cited by: 5References: 4

    which explores the structures of American imperialism and the ways in which structures of dominance have framed Native American ethnicity, race, gender, and religion.2 This paper proposes that specific issues raised in the politics of recognition, namely, cultural identity, authenticity, and community survival, provide critical approaches to the study of American Indian religions. These approaches are not simply political perspectives but ways of…

  • Introduction: Religion and Encounter: Mid-Atlantic Regional Contact between Native American and Euroamerican Peoples after the Voyages of Columbus

    John A Grim, John GrimARTICLEThe American Indian Quarterly1992

    HE FIVE PAPERS THAT FOLLOW were presentations in a conference entitled Religion and Encounter: Mid-Atlantic Regional Contact Between American and Euro-American Peoples After the Voyages of Columbus. This conference, held on October 18 and 19, 1991, is part of a two-year program at Bucknell, The Columbian Quincentennial (1492-1992): A Critical Investigation. The Religion and conference focused on the role of religious world views in the early mid-…

  • The Wolves of Heaven: Cheyenne Shamanism, Ceremonies, and Prehistoric Origins

    John A Grim, John Grim et al.ARTICLEThe American Indian Quarterly1990Cited by: 6

  • The World of the Crow Indians, As Driftwood Lodges

    John A Grim, John Grim et al.ARTICLEThe American Indian Quarterly1989Cited by: 1

  • The Wolves of Heaven: Cheyenne Shamanism, Ceremonies, and Prehistoric Origins

    John A Grim, John Grim et al.ARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1989

  • Native North American Spirituality of the Eastern Woodlands: Sacred Myths, Dreams, Visions, Speeches, Healing Formulas, Rituals and Ceremonials

    John A Grim, John Grim et al.ARTICLEThe American Indian Quarterly1986Cited by: 3

  • The Shaman: Patterns of Siberian and Ojibway Healing

    Douglas R Parks, John A Grim et al.ARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly1986

  • The Shaman: Patterns of Siberian and Ojibway Healing

    Äke Hultkrantz, John A Grim et al.ARTICLEAsian Folklore Studies1985