December 2023-
A Semester full of discussions and a few debates about science and religion; nature as pedagogy; sacred places and objects; theories and practices; indigeneity many times over; biology, rituals, and gift economies; dried, dry, and wet gardens; symbols; garbage and pollution; black witches; axolotls; cenotes; lythophilia; braiding sweetgrass, and many, many other wonders.
Half of the students registered for Religion; the other half, for Environmental Science. They met thinking and speaking as biologists, ethnographers, writers, philosophers, landscape artists, comparatists, and a whole lot more, and most excellent.
Honored and thrilled to have collaborated with this extraordinary group of students in this seminar at the Department of Religion at Emory University. Bravo!