Ep. #034 - Bron Taylor
| dc.creator | Boyer, Dominic (podcast host) | |
| dc.creator | Howe, Cymene (podcast host) | |
| dc.creator | Taylor, Bron | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-07-25T15:46:48Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-07-25T15:46:48Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2016-09-22 | |
| dc.description | This recording and transcript form part of a collection of podcasts conducted by the Cultures of Energy at Rice University. Cultures of Energy brings writers, artists and scholars together to talk, think and feel their way into the Anthropocene. We cover serious issues like climate change, species extinction and energy transition. But we also try to confront seemingly huge and insurmountable problems with insight, creativity and laughter. | |
| dc.description.abstract | Cymene and Dominic compare their ecospirituality on this week’s episode of the Cultures of Energy podcast, appreciate the mystical connectivity among all Californians and then Dominic explains the two aspects of Nature that frighten him the most. After all that (10:44) we welcome to the podcast our true spirit guide, Bron Taylor, Professor of Religion and Nature, Environmental Ethics, and Environmental Studies, at the University of Florida (brontaylor.com). We talk about his landmark book Dark Green Religion (U California Press, 2010) and Bron explains the increase in naturalistic and Gaian spirituality across the world today. We discuss the struggle between biocentric and anthrocentric ethics, how collaborations between indigenous and environmentalist movements have helped create green countercultures and we debate Lynn White’s thesis that Christianity has helped to accelerate contemporary ecological crisis. We cover the mainstreaming of green spirituality in popular culture, science and media and whether the “dark” in “dark green” also has something to do with violence. Finally, we turn to Bron’s most recent book, Avatar and Nature Spirituality, (Wilfrid Laurier U Press, 2013) and discuss what role films like Avatar might play in spreading green spiritual ideas and feelings. Why have most humans been so slow to react to their environmental predicaments? How is Abrahamic spirituality connected to agriculture? Is surfing an aquatic nature religion? All these answers and more on this week’s episode! | |
| dc.digitization.specifications | This podcast was encoded using GarageBand 10.2.0 software at 128 kbps Audio Bitrate and 44100 Sample Rate in mp3 format. | |
| dc.format.digitalOrigin | born digital | |
| dc.format.extent | Duration: 1:09:21 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Boyer, Dominic (podcast host), Howe, Cymene (podcast host) and Taylor, Bron. "Ep. #034 - Bron Taylor." (2016) Cultures of Energy, Rice University: https://hdl.handle.net/1911/112740. | |
| dc.identifier.digital | coe034 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1911/112740 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.publisher | Cultures of Energy, Rice University | |
| dc.relation.IsPartOfSeries | Cultures of Energy Podcast Series | |
| dc.rights | This document is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. | |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | |
| dc.source | Cultures of Energy is a Mingomena Media production. Co-hosts are @DominicBoyer and @CymeneHowe | |
| dc.subject | environmental humanities | |
| dc.title | Ep. #034 - Bron Taylor | |
| dc.type.dcmi | Sound | |
| dc.type.genre | podcasts | |
| dcterms.accessRights | licensed | |
| schema.accessibilityFeature | transcript | |
| schema.accessibilitySummary | Simple AI-generated transcript is provided but has not been reviewed for quality issues. |