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Environmental Justice:\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

Adamson, Joni, Evans, Mei Mei & Stein, Rachel. (eds.), <\/span>The Environmental Justice Reader: Politics, Poetics, and Pedagogy<\/span><\/i>. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 2002.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ammons, Elizabeth & Roy, Modhumita. (eds.), <\/span>Sharing the Earth: An International Environmental Justice Reader<\/span><\/i>. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bullard, Robert D.. (ed.), <\/span>The Quest for Environmental Justice: Human Rights and the Politics of Pollution<\/span><\/i>. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 2005.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ezeilo, Angelou. <\/span>Engage, Connect, Protect: Empowering Diverse Youth as Environmental Leaders<\/span><\/i>. New Society Publishers, 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n

Gilio-Whitaker, Dina.\u00a0 <\/span>As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, From Colonization to Standing Rock<\/span><\/i>. Boston: Beacon Press, 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n

Watershed Discipleship: Reinhabiting Bioregional Faith and Practice<\/span><\/i>, Ched Myers, ed.. Eugene: Cascade Books, 2016.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Inhabitance: Ecological Religious Education<\/span><\/i>, Jennifer R. Ayres, ed.. Waco: Baylor University Press, 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n

Human Relationships to the Land:<\/b><\/p>\n

Deming, Alison H. and Lauret E. Savoy. <\/span>Colors of Nature: Culture, Identity, and the Natural <\/span><\/i>World.<\/span><\/i> Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2011.<\/span><\/p>\n

Harris, Melanie. <\/span>Ecowomanism: African American Women and Earth-Honoring Faiths<\/span><\/i>. <\/span>Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n

Lane, Belden. <\/span>The Great Conversation: Nature and the Care of the Soul<\/span><\/i>. New York: Oxford <\/span>University Press, 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n

McBride, Bunny and Harald E. L. Pins. <\/span>Indians in Eden: Wabanakis and Rusticators on <\/span><\/i>Maine\u2019s Mount Desert Island<\/span><\/i>, 1840s-1920s. Camden, ME: Down East Books, 2009.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mortali, Micah. <\/span>Rewilding: Meditations, Practices, and Skills for Awakening in Nature. <\/span><\/i>Boulder: Sounds True, 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n

Newell, John Philip. <\/span>Sacred Earth Sacred Soul: Celtic Wisdom for Reawakening To What Our <\/span><\/i>Souls Know and Healing the World<\/span><\/i>. New York: Harper, 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n

Wall Kimmerer, Robin. <\/span>Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and <\/span><\/i>the Teachings of Plants.<\/span><\/i> Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2013.<\/span><\/p>\n

Woodley, Randy S.,<\/span> Indigenous Theology and the Western Worldview: A Decolonized Approach <\/span><\/i>to Christian Doctrine<\/span><\/i>. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ecotheology:\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

Copeland, Rebecca. <\/span>Created Being: Expanding Creedal Christology<\/span><\/i>. Baylor University Press, August 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n

Copeland, Rebecca L. <\/span>Entangled Being\u202f: Unoriginal Sin and Wicked Problems<\/span><\/i>. Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press, 2024.<\/span><\/p>\n

Harris, Melanie. <\/span>Ecowomanism: African American Women and Earth-Honoring Faiths<\/span><\/i>. <\/span>Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n

Rasmussen, Larry L<\/span>. Earth-Honoring Faith Religious Ethics in a New Key.<\/span><\/i> Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ecology and Ministry:\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

Adams, Andrea. <\/span>The Ethics of Access and Equity in Emergency Management<\/span><\/i>. Washington, D.C: FEMA, 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n

Antal, Jim. <\/span>Climate Church, Climate World\u202f: How People of Faith Must Work for Change<\/span><\/i>. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fountain, Philip. \u201cMennonite Disaster Relief and the Interfaith Encounter in Aceh, Indonesia.\u201d <\/span>Asian Ethnology<\/span><\/i> 75, no. 1 (2016): 163\u201390. http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/43855330.<\/span><\/p>\n

Haueisen, Kathryn M, and Carol Flores. <\/span>A Ready Hope\u202f: Effective Disaster Ministry for Congregations<\/span><\/i>. Herndon, Va: Alban Institute, 2009.<\/span><\/p>\n

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

Hopson, Neomi. <\/span>Emergency Management<\/span><\/i>. 1st ed. Delhi: University Publications, 2012.<\/span><\/p>\n

Islam, Ranty R. \u201cBelieving to Recover: The Role of Religion in the Recovery Phase of Natural Disasters.\u201d <\/span>Anthropos<\/span><\/i> 107, no. 1 (2012): 209\u201317. <\/span>http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/23510155<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Jang, Nam Hyuck. \u201cDisaster Ministry of the Churches for Resilient Disaster Response.\u201d <\/span>Mission and Theology<\/span><\/i> 45 (2018): 411\u201340. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.17778\/MAT.2018.6.45.411.<\/span><\/p>\n

Martin, Edward J. \u201cLiberation Theology, Sustainable Development, and Postmodern Public Administration.\u201d <\/span>Latin American Perspectives<\/span><\/i> 30, no. 4 (2003): 69\u201391. <\/span>http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/3185060<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Roberts, Stephen, and Willard W. C. Ashley, eds. <\/span>Disaster Spiritual Care\u202f: Practical Clergy Responses to Community, Regional and National Tragedy<\/span><\/i>. 2nd edition. Nashville, Tennessee: Skylight Paths, 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n

Urquhart, George O\u2019Neil. <\/span>Crisis and Emergency Management and Preparedness for the African-American Church Community\u202f: Biblical Application from a Theological Perspective<\/span><\/i>. Eugene, Oregon: Wipf & Stock, 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n

Wuthnow, Robert. <\/span>Be Very Afraid\u202f: The Cultural Response to Terror, Pandemics, Environmental Devastation, Nuclear Annihilation, and Other Threats<\/span><\/i>. Oxford\u202f; Oxford University Press, 2010.<\/span><\/p>\n

Youth Preparedness Catalogue\u202f: Disaster Preparedness Education Programs and Resources.<\/span><\/i> Revised October 2015. Washington, D.C: U.S. Department of Homeland Security, FEMA, 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fiction & Environmental Justice:\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

Abdelrahman Munif, <\/span>Cities of Salt<\/span><\/i> (Vintage International, 1989, translation copyright 1987). \u2013 the impact of oil discovery in the Arabian pinnencila\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Imbolo Mbue, <\/span>How Beautiful We Were<\/span><\/i> (Random House, 2021). \u2013 representing Nigeria, oil spills, and their impact<\/span><\/p>\n

Indira Sinha, <\/span>Animal\u2019s People<\/span><\/i> (Simon and Schuster, 2007). \u2013 India, factor had a gas leak that killed a ton of people and disfigured many others, set 10-20 years later (kinda vulgar)<\/span><\/p>\n

Ecoautobiography:\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

Ali, Kazim. <\/span>Northern Light: Power, Land, and the Memory of Water. <\/span><\/i>Minneapolis: Milkweed, 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n

hooks, bell. <\/span>belonging: a culture of place. <\/span><\/i>New York: Routledge, 2019 (2nd Ed.)<\/span><\/p>\n

Kumar, Priyanka.<\/span> Conversations with Birds<\/span><\/i>. Minneapolis, Milkweed, 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n

Lanham, J. Drew.<\/span> The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man\u2019s Love Affair with Nature<\/span><\/i>. Minneapolis: Milkweed, 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n

Loorz, Victoria. <\/span>Church of the Wild: How Nature Invites Us into the Sacred.<\/span><\/i> Minneapolis: Broadleaf Books, 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n

May, Gerald. <\/span>The Wisdom of Wilderness: Experiencing the Healing Power of Nature<\/span><\/i>. San Francisco: Harper, 2006.<\/span><\/p>\n

McAnulty, Dara.<\/span> Diary of a Young Naturalist<\/span><\/i>. Minneapolis: Milkweed, 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n

Nezhukumatathil, Aimee. <\/span>World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments.<\/span><\/i> Minneapolis: Milkweed, 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n

ni Dochartaigh, Kerri.<\/span> Thin Places: A Natural History of Healing and Home. <\/span><\/i>Minneapolis: Milkweed, 2023.<\/span><\/p>\n

Rush, Elizabeth. <\/span>The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth.<\/span><\/i> Minneapolis: Milkweed, 2023.<\/span><\/p>\n

Savoy, Lauret.<\/span> Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape.<\/span><\/i> Berkeley: Counterpoint Press, 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n

Tempest Williams, Terry. <\/span>Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place,<\/span><\/i> 2nd ed. New York: Vintage Books, 2001.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Environmental Justice:\u00a0\u00a0 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22535,"featured_media":0,"parent":28,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/fej\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/304"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/fej\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/fej\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/fej\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22535"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/fej\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/fej\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/fej\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/304\/revisions\/319"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/fej\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/fej\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}