Reading Suggestions

Environmental Justice:  

Adamson, Joni, Evans, Mei Mei & Stein, Rachel. (eds.), The Environmental Justice Reader: Politics, Poetics, and Pedagogy. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 2002.

Ammons, Elizabeth & Roy, Modhumita. (eds.), Sharing the Earth: An International Environmental Justice Reader. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 2015.

Bullard, Robert D.. (ed.), The Quest for Environmental Justice: Human Rights and the Politics of Pollution. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 2005.

Ezeilo, Angelou. Engage, Connect, Protect: Empowering Diverse Youth as Environmental Leaders. New Society Publishers, 2020.

Gilio-Whitaker, Dina.  As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, From Colonization to Standing Rock. Boston: Beacon Press, 2019.

Watershed Discipleship: Reinhabiting Bioregional Faith and Practice, Ched Myers, ed.. Eugene: Cascade Books, 2016. 

Inhabitance: Ecological Religious Education, Jennifer R. Ayres, ed.. Waco: Baylor University Press, 2019.

Human Relationships to the Land:

Deming, Alison H. and Lauret E. Savoy. Colors of Nature: Culture, Identity, and the Natural World. Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2011.

Harris, Melanie. Ecowomanism: African American Women and Earth-Honoring Faiths. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2017.

Lane, Belden. The Great Conversation: Nature and the Care of the Soul. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.

McBride, Bunny and Harald E. L. Pins. Indians in Eden: Wabanakis and Rusticators on Maine’s Mount Desert Island, 1840s-1920s. Camden, ME: Down East Books, 2009.

Mortali, Micah. Rewilding: Meditations, Practices, and Skills for Awakening in Nature. Boulder: Sounds True, 2019.

Newell, John Philip. Sacred Earth Sacred Soul: Celtic Wisdom for Reawakening To What Our Souls Know and Healing the World. New York: Harper, 2021.

Wall Kimmerer, Robin. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants. Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2013.

Woodley, Randy S., Indigenous Theology and the Western Worldview: A Decolonized Approach to Christian Doctrine. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2022.

Ecotheology: 

Copeland, Rebecca. Created Being: Expanding Creedal Christology. Baylor University Press, August 2020.

Copeland, Rebecca L. Entangled Being : Unoriginal Sin and Wicked Problems. Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press, 2024.

Harris, Melanie. Ecowomanism: African American Women and Earth-Honoring Faiths. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2017.

Rasmussen, Larry L. Earth-Honoring Faith Religious Ethics in a New Key. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.

Ecology and Ministry: 

Adams, Andrea. The Ethics of Access and Equity in Emergency Management. Washington, D.C: FEMA, 2021.

Antal, Jim. Climate Church, Climate World : How People of Faith Must Work for Change. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2018.

Fountain, Philip. “Mennonite Disaster Relief and the Interfaith Encounter in Aceh, Indonesia.” Asian Ethnology 75, no. 1 (2016): 163–90. http://www.jstor.org/stable/43855330.

Haueisen, Kathryn M, and Carol Flores. A Ready Hope : Effective Disaster Ministry for Congregations. Herndon, Va: Alban Institute, 2009.

Holden, William, Kathleen Nadeau, and Emma Porio. Ecological Liberation Theology Faith-Based Approaches to Poverty and Climate Change in the Philippines. 1st ed. 2017. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50782-8.

Hopson, Neomi. Emergency Management. 1st ed. Delhi: University Publications, 2012.

Islam, Ranty R. “Believing to Recover: The Role of Religion in the Recovery Phase of Natural Disasters.” Anthropos 107, no. 1 (2012): 209–17. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23510155.

Jang, Nam Hyuck. “Disaster Ministry of the Churches for Resilient Disaster Response.” Mission and Theology 45 (2018): 411–40. https://doi.org/10.17778/MAT.2018.6.45.411.

Martin, Edward J. “Liberation Theology, Sustainable Development, and Postmodern Public Administration.” Latin American Perspectives 30, no. 4 (2003): 69–91. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3185060.

Roberts, Stephen, and Willard W. C. Ashley, eds. Disaster Spiritual Care : Practical Clergy Responses to Community, Regional and National Tragedy. 2nd edition. Nashville, Tennessee: Skylight Paths, 2017.

Urquhart, George O’Neil. Crisis and Emergency Management and Preparedness for the African-American Church Community : Biblical Application from a Theological Perspective. Eugene, Oregon: Wipf & Stock, 2014.

Wuthnow, Robert. Be Very Afraid : The Cultural Response to Terror, Pandemics, Environmental Devastation, Nuclear Annihilation, and Other Threats. Oxford ; Oxford University Press, 2010.

Youth Preparedness Catalogue : Disaster Preparedness Education Programs and Resources. Revised October 2015. Washington, D.C: U.S. Department of Homeland Security, FEMA, 2015.

Fiction & Environmental Justice: 

Abdelrahman Munif, Cities of Salt (Vintage International, 1989, translation copyright 1987). – the impact of oil discovery in the Arabian pinnencila 

Imbolo Mbue, How Beautiful We Were (Random House, 2021). – representing Nigeria, oil spills, and their impact

Indira Sinha, Animal’s People (Simon and Schuster, 2007). – India, factor had a gas leak that killed a ton of people and disfigured many others, set 10-20 years later (kinda vulgar)

Ecoautobiography: 

Ali, Kazim. Northern Light: Power, Land, and the Memory of Water. Minneapolis: Milkweed, 2021.

hooks, bell. belonging: a culture of place. New York: Routledge, 2019 (2nd Ed.)

Kumar, Priyanka. Conversations with Birds. Minneapolis, Milkweed, 2022.

Lanham, J. Drew. The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair with Nature. Minneapolis: Milkweed, 2016.

Loorz, Victoria. Church of the Wild: How Nature Invites Us into the Sacred. Minneapolis: Broadleaf Books, 2021.

May, Gerald. The Wisdom of Wilderness: Experiencing the Healing Power of Nature. San Francisco: Harper, 2006.

McAnulty, Dara. Diary of a Young Naturalist. Minneapolis: Milkweed, 2021.

Nezhukumatathil, Aimee. World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments. Minneapolis: Milkweed, 2020.

ni Dochartaigh, Kerri. Thin Places: A Natural History of Healing and Home. Minneapolis: Milkweed, 2023.

Rush, Elizabeth. The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth. Minneapolis: Milkweed, 2023.

Savoy, Lauret. Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape. Berkeley: Counterpoint Press, 2016.

Tempest Williams, Terry. Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place, 2nd ed. New York: Vintage Books, 2001.