Ecology, Spirituality, & Religion

Recommended Reading List

Abram, David. The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-
Human-World. New York: Vintage Books, 1996.

Bauman, Whitney, Richard Bohannon, and Kevin O’Brien (eds.). Grounding Religion: A
Field Guide to the Study of Religion and Ecology. New York & London:
Routledge, 2011.

Berkes, Fikret. Sacred Ecology. New York: Routledge, 2012.

Berry, Thomas. The Great Work: Our Way into the Future. New York: Broadway Books,
2000.

Gottlieb, Roger S. The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Ecology. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2010.

Grim, John and Mary Evelyn Tucker. Ecology and Religion. Washington, D.C.: Island
Press, 2014.

Haberman, David L. 2006. River of Love in an Age of Pollution: The Yamuna River of
Northern India. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

Kearns, Laurel and Catherine Keller, eds. Eco-Spirit: Religions and Philosophies for the
Earth. Bronx, NY: Fordham University Press, 2007.

LaDuke, Winona. Recovering the Sacred: The Power of Naming and Claiming.
Brooklyn, NY: South End Press, 2005.

Macy, Joanna. World as Lover, World as Self. Courage for Global Justice and
Ecological Renewal. Berkeley, CA: Parallax Press, 2007.

Maathai, Wangari. Replenishing the Earth: Spiritual Values for Healing Ourselves and
the World. New York & London: Doubleday, 2010.

Merchant, Carolyn. The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution.
New York: HarperCollins, 1990.

Mickey, Sam. Whole Earth Thinking and Planetary Coexistence: Ecological Wisdom at
the Intersection of Religion, Ecology, and Philosophy. New York: Routledge,
2015.
Muir, John. Wilderness Essays. Layton, UT: Gibbs Smith, 2015.

Reuther, Rosemary Radford. Integrating Ecofeminism, Globalization, and World’s

Religions. Lanham & New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2005.

Snyder, Gary. The Practice of the Wild. Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, 2010.

Sponsel, Leslie E. Spiritual Ecology: A Quiet Revolution. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger
2012.

Swimme, Brian Thomas and Mary Evelyn Tucker. Journey of the Universe. New Haven:
Yale University Press, 2011.

Taylor, Bron. Dark Green Religion: Nature Spirituality and the Planetary Future.
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2010.

Thoreau, Henry David. Walden. York, United Kingdom: Empire Books, 2013.

Tucker, Mary Evelyn. Worldly Wonder: Religions Enter Their Ecological Phase. Las
Salle, IL: Open Court Press, 2003.

Tucker, Mary Evelyn and John Grim, series editors. Religions of the World and Ecology
Book Series. http://fore.yale.edu/publications/books/cswr/

Waldau, Paul and Kimberley Patton, eds. A Communion of Subjects: Animals in Religion,
Science, and Ethics. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2006