Ecospirit: Religions and Philosophies for the Earth

Contribiutors

C O N T R I B U T O R S Karen Baker-Fletcher is Associate Professor of Systematic Theology at Southern Methodist University. She is the author of several books, among them: Dancing with God: The Trinity from a Womanist Perspective (Chalice, 2006), and Sisters of Dust, Sisters of Spirit: Womanist Wordings on God and Creation (Augsburg Fortress, 1998). Whitney A. Bauman is a PhD candidate in theology at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. He is currently finishing his dissertation , ‘‘From Creatio ex Nihilo to Terra Nullius: The Colonial Mind and the Colonization of Creation,’’ which focuses on developing a postcolonial understanding of the Christian doctrine of creation. Whitney is also on the Steering Committee of the Theological Roundtable on Ecological Ethics and Spirituality (TREES) at the Graduate Theological Union. Sharon Betcher is Associate Professor of Theology at the Vancouver School of Theology. A constructive theologian with an emphasis on pneumatological dimensions, she has published articles in the areas of postcolonial theologies, disabilities and religion, and progressive or regenerative Christianities, as well as ecotheology. She is the author of Spirit and the Politics of Disenchantment (Fortress Press, 2007). Richard R. Bohannon II is a PhD student in Religion and Society at Drew University, where his research focuses on Christian environmentalism and the built environment in the United States. Under the guidance of 638 兩 c o nt r i bu t o rs GreenFaith in New Jersey, he is currently directing Building in Good Faith, an effort to develop a comprehensive ‘‘green’’ guide to religious architecture. Anne Daniell is an independent scholar living and writing in New Orleans. She received her PhD from Drew University in 2005 with an emphasis in Ecological Theology. Her dissertation explored a ‘‘spirituality of place,’’ looking specifically at New Orleans and the Pontchartrain Basin. Her publications include Process and Difference: Between Cosmological and Poststructuralist Postmodernisms (SUNY Press, 2002), a volume coedited with Catherine Keller. Heather Murray Elkins is Professor of Worship, Preaching, and the Arts at the Theological School and Graduate Division of Religion at Drew University. She began her teaching career as an instructor in the first bilingual independent school on the Navaho Reservation and she has served as a local church pastor, a truck-stop chaplain, a university chaplain , and an academic dean. Her courses at Drew include feminist studies in liturgy and preaching as well as Appalachian Studies of health, land, and the arts. Her most recent books are The Holy Stuff of Life (Pilgrim Press, 2006) and Wising Up: Ritual Resources for Women of Faith in Their Journey of Aging (Pilgrim Press, 2006). Antonia Gorman is a PhD candidate in Theological and Religious Studies at Drew University. She currently is writing her dissertation, a constructive theology of salvation that brings together feminist, process, and ecological theologies with insights from the animal-protection movement. She is a Will Herberg Scholar and a winner of the Mulder Prize for academic excellence. Her publications include an essay in the book The Way of Compassion, as well as multiple contributions to the periodicals Satya and the Religious Observer. Marion Grau, a native of Germany, is Associate Professor of Theology at the Church Divinity School of the Pacific, a member school of the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California, where she has taught since 2001. Her essays have appeared in Strike Terror No More (Chalice, 2002) and Postcolonial Theologies: Divinity And Empire (Chalice, 2004). She is the c o nt r i bu t o rs 兩 639 author of Of Divine Economy: Refinancing Redemption (T. and T. Clark/ Continuum, 2004) and coeditor with Rosemary Radford Ruether of Interpreting the Postmodern: Responses to Radical Orthodoxy (T. and T. Clark/ Continuum, 2006). John Grim is a Senior Lecturer and Senior Scholar at Yale University. With Mary Evelyn Tucker, he is Coordinator of the Forum on Religion and Ecology and series editor of World Religions and Ecology, from Harvard Divinity School’s Center for the Study of World Religions. He has been a Professor of Religion at Bucknell University and at Sarah Lawrence College, where he taught courses in Native American and indigenous religions, world religions, and religion and ecology. He is the author The Shaman: Patterns of Religious Healing Among the Ojibway Indians (University of Oklahoma Press, 1983) and, with Mary Evelyn Tucker, coeditor of Worldviews and Ecology (Orbis, 1994). He was editor of ‘‘Religion and Ecology : Can the Climate...