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Joy Ackerman
Antioch University New England
Sacred Geography: Making Meanings at Walden Pond
Keywords: sacred space, pilgrimage, Walden Pond
Joyce A. Bautch
Marian University
God, Grace, and Creation: Contemporary Catholic Contributions to Ecotheology
Keywords: ecotheology, catholicism, god, grace, creation
Alexius Andang Binawan
Driyarkara School of Philosophy, Jakarta, Indonesia
Kicking Habits: Restoring City, Recreating Faith, Hope and Love
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Martin Drenthen
Radboud University of Nijmegen, Netherlands
The Legible Landscape and Ethics of Place
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Robin Globus
University of Florida
Re-creation's Shadow Side: Exploring Narratives of Apocalypse
Keywords: apocalypticism, environmentalism, narrative, rhetoric
Mazen Haidar
University La Sapienza, Rome
Reclaiming the Sacred
Keywords: reconstruction, post-war reconstruction
Chelsea Harry
Duquesne University
A Theoretical Approach to Managing Introduced Species: Thinking About Re-placement
Keywords: introduced species, invasive species, native, philosophy, anthropocentrism, place
James Janowski
Hampden-Sydney College
Bringing Back Bamiyan’s Buddhas
Keywords: recreate, replace, restoration, Bamiyan Buddhas
Chris Klassen
Wilfrid Laurier University
“I Can Only Speak for Myself”: The Ethics of Authenticity and “Recreating” Nature Religion
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Adam Langridge
Nipissing University, North Bay, Ontario, Canada
Levelling in Ecological Communication: Recreation, Replacement, No Restoration
Keywords: existential phenomenology; anthropocentrism; ecocentrism; being-in-the-world; ready-to-hand; meaning
Todd LeVasseur
University of Florida
Replacing Ice With Water: Repurcussions of Climate Change on a Sense of Place
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Leila Loezer
University of Cincinnati, School of Architecture and Interior Design
Analysis of US LEED Rating System as Sustainability Guideline to Design an Office Building in South of Brazil
Keywords: sustainability, developing countries, environmental design, Brazil, LEED
Alicia Lubowski
Institute of Fine Arts, New York
The Frozen Landscape: Picturing Global Warming
Keywords: ice, landscape, climate, aesthetics, visual art
Matt Macioge, Assoc AIA
Principal, Consortium Lumina
Worshipping the Machine: Technology, Religion, and Nature
Keywords: nature, technology, society, religion, sustainability
Sepideh Masoudinejad
Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran
The Universe Alive: Nature in the Mystical Attitude of Sohrab Sepehri
Keywords: nature, human, mysticism, intuition, Sohrab Sepehri
David McDuffie
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Concern for ‘Creation’: A Religious Response to Ecological Conservation
Keywords: creation, ecological conservation, Christianity and ecology
Sarah Morice
University of Notre Dame
Re-Placing the Doctrine of the Trinity: Horizons, Violence, and Postmodern Christian Thought
Keywords: Christianity, religion, postmodernism, violence, sacred space>
Frank Muscara
City University of New York
Restoration, Connectivity, and Expressivity: An Exploration of Urban Restorative
Keywords: restorative environments, stress reduction, reappraisal, expressivity
Mark Mysak
University of North Texas
Space, Race and Environmental Identity
Keywords: space, race, environmental identity, connectivity
Sampson Nwaomah
Babcock University, Ilisan-Remo, Nigeria
Eschatology Of Environmental Bliss In Romans 8: 18-21 And The Imperative Of Present Evnironmental Sustainability From A Nigerian Perspective
Keywords: eschatology, environment, sustainability, Nigeria, Christianity
Jonathan Parker
University of North Texas
Replacing/Re-placing Animal Rights and Liberation Theories
Keywords: replace, animal rights, animal liberation, wild animals, domesticated animals
Arsenio Rodrigues
Prairie View A & M University, School of Architecture
Symbolic Structures and the Meaning of Place
Keywords: phenomenology, memorial, place-making
Joshua Shaw
Penn State Erie, The Behrend College
What Sort of Concept is the Concept of Nature?
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Jefferson Slagle
St. Bonaventure University
'Play the Chinook‘: Purpose and Place in David James Duncan‘s The River Why.
Keywords: James David Duncan, fishing, work, play, ecocriticism
Sam Snyder
University of Florida & Kalamazoo College
Gateway Activities: From Religious Recreation to Rituals of Restoration
Keywords: fishing, recreation, ecological restoration, ritual
H. Peter Steeves
DePaul University
In the Beginning and In the End
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Priscilla Stuckey
Prescott College
Knowing Earth: Animist Refigurings of Western Epistemology
Keywords: animism, epistemology, indigenous, situated knowing, relational ontology
Trevor Thompson
St. Bonaventure University
Reading the Water‘ as Re-placement in Norman Maclean‘s A River Runs Through It
Keywords: Norman Maclean, storied residence, place, rivers and fishing, ecocriticism
David Utsler
University of North Texas
Who Am I, Who are these People, and What is this Place?: A Hermeneutic Account of the Self, Others, and Environments
Keywords: dwelling, identity, hermeneutics
Cynthia A. Walter & J. Michael Atherton
Saint Vincent College, Seton Hill University
Restoration Restores Education: Using The Campus Watershed to Integrate Multiple Ways of Knowing
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Mélanie Walton
Duquesne University
Elaborating the World With the World
Keywords: phenomenology, method, meaning, lived experience
Johann Weber
College of Wooster
The Awe Factor: the Role of Experiencing Nature in Crafting Genuine Concern
Keywords: experience, genuine concern, spiritual naturalism, Deep Ecology, naturalism
Michael Williams
St. Bonaventure University
"I Was Born on Wheels": Wallace Stegner and Five Ways of Relating to Place in America
Keywords: place, liberal education, work, consumerism, ecocriticism
A. James Wohlpart
Florida Gulf Coast University
The Mutual Chanting of Humans and Birds
Keywords: restoration ecology, environmental education, nature literacy, ecology of spirit
Robert Zandstra
Independent Scholar
Toward a Poetics of Religious Ecopoetry: Spiritual Référance in the Poetry of Wendell Berry
Keywords: religious ecocriticism, poetry, Wendell Berry
