Back to the land and waters

Futures for the Study of Religions

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4372294
AutoresP E Klassen (0009-0009-0455-0951, University of Toronto, autor correspondente)
Ano2020
Volume50
Fascículo1
Páginas90-96
Data de publicação2020-01-02
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoReligion (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0048-721X • E-ISSN: 1096-1151
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/0048721x.2019.1681106
OpenAlexW2982241395
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas19

In this reflection, I consider how paying attention to the grounds of our research, literally, affords the study of religion an opportunity to return to its roots as a discipline that thinks seriously about how what we call religion is connected to what we call nature. I ask what scholars of religion can learn from the 21st century movement of Indigenous Water Protectors, reading their invocations to ‘protect the sacred’ alongside earlier classic approaches in the study of religion and nature, such as those of David Hume and Jonathan Z. Smith. I close by briefly laying out five grounds for research in the study of religion, including positionality and land-based approaches

Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Futures contract · Indigenous · Political science · Reading (process) · Reflection (computer programming) · Sociology · Ecology · Law · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Religion, Society, and Development · Study and Philosophy of Religion