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Keith Douglass Warner OFM's
Research and Education Website
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From 2003-2010 I taught "Faith, Ethics & the Biodiversity Crisis" as a Third Level Religious Studies course (in the Environmental Studies Institute 2003-2007 and Religious Studies 2009-10). The syllabus I developed for the new core and taught in 2009 and 2010 provides information on the multi-part research assignment and the imovies created by my students.
I have conducted research on the Greening of Religion, such as an article from the Journal of Religion and American Culture titled The Greening of American Catholicism: Identity, Conversion and Continuity. Drawing on research I did with students for the Living Ocean Project, with Amara Brook of the Psychology Department I coauthored an article titled "Facilitating Religious Environmentalism: Ethnology plus conservation psychology tools can assess an interfaith environmental intervention," in Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology
In the summer of 2009 I traveled to the School of Australian Indigenous Knowledge Systems at Charles Darwin University, Australia, and spent 10 days with a great community of Aboriginals and Whites investigating the role of technology in cross-cultural education titled Teaching From Country. This is a picture of me, Michael Christie (the animator of TFC), and Helen Veran. Yingiya Guyula, a TFC collaborator, had presented to my SCU class via skype on May 6, 2009 (Trial 24). |
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| I gave a presentation at the TFC seminar titled Teaching Environmental Scientists From Country: Integral Wisdom
For a New Australia, which was published in special edition of the Learning Communities Journal.The pictures on the right are from the "teaching from country" that Yingiya did for my class. |
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My article drew, in part, from Yingiya Guyala's presentation to my class, and what I learned from the Yolŋu (northeast Arnhemland Aboriginal).Yingiya used the adjective ‘sacred’ 13 times. Here are the nouns which he described as sacred: the sacred water hole (5 times); sacred digging stick (2 times); sacred reeds, sacred place, sacred dilly bags, and sacred beings; big sacred tree; and ‘the knowledge and wisdom that had been handed down generation after generation is regarded as sacred’ (emphasis mine). |
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The complete journal issue from the TFC seminar (dedicated to the memory of Susan Leigh Star) can be found here.
This is the sacred water hole referred to by Yingiya. |
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With Liba Pejchar, I coauthored "A River Might Run Through It Again: Criteria for Consideration of Dam Removal and Interim Lessons from California" which was published in Enviornmental Management (2001) Vol. 28, No. 5, pp. 561–575
Roopi Atwal: Sikhism & the Environment
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