Mary Evelyn Tucker: Complete Interview

In this complete interview, author and scholar Mary Evelyn Tucker reveals that humanity is currently at a crossroads integrating science and cosmology. She explains that we need to take all the knowledge and information we have learned from science and ground it in a renewed relationship to the earth, which is inherently spiritual. Only then, says Tucker, will we find real solutions to the current issues of our time.

Mary Evelyn Tucker
Mary Evelyn Tucker is a Senior Lecturer and Senior Scholar at Yale University where she has appointments in the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies as well as the Divinity School and the Department of Religious Studies. She is a co-founder and co-director of the Forum on Religion and Ecology and organized a conference series on World Religions and Ecology at Harvard Divinity School. She is also Research Associate at the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard. 

She is the author of numerous books, including Worldly Wonder: Religions Enter Their Ecological Phase (Open Court Press, 2003), and Moral and Spiritual Cultivation in Japanese Neo-Confucianism (SUNY, 1989). She co-edited  a series of books examining religion and ecology as well as a Daedalus volume titled Religion and Ecology: Can the Climate Change? (2001). She edited several of Thomas Berry's books including Evening Thoughts (Sierra Club Books and University of California Press, 2006), The Sacred Universe (Columbia Univ. Press, 2009), Christian Future and the Fate of Earth (Orbis Book, 2009). 

She is a member of the Interfaith Partnership for the Environment at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), served on the International Earth Charter Drafting Committee from 1997-2000 and is a member of the Earth Charter International Council.

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