Wednesday 23rd July 2008

Venue: Schumacher College

Entrance: £4*

Mary Evelyn Tucker is a professor of religion at Bucknell University and coordinator of the Forum on Religion and Ecology. Along with John Grim, she coordinated a ten-conference series on World Religions and Ecology at Harvard’s Center for the Study of World Religions. Together they now direct the Forum on Religion and Ecology (FORE).

Mary has been a committee member of the Interfaith Partnership for the Environment at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) since 1986 and is vice president of the American Teilhard Association. Author of many books on religion and ecology, she has recently published Worldly Wonder: Religions Enter Their Ecological Phase (Open Court Press, 2003). She is the co-editor of books on ecological views of Buddhism, Confucianism, and Hinduism. She has published the volume Confucian Spirituality co-edited with Tu Weiming, and her newest book, The Record of Great Doubts: The Philosophy of Ch’i, is forthcoming.

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This open evening is held in association with the following Schumacher College short course: Sacred Activism

*Please note the new price of our Open Evenings as of April 2008