Bron Taylor
American academic and conservationist
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Bron Taylor's Degrees
- PhD Religion University of Southern California
- Masters Religion University of Southern California
- Bachelors Religion University of California, Santa Barbara
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Bron Raymond Taylor is an American scholar and conservationist. He is professor of religion and nature at the University of Florida and has also been an affiliated scholar with the Center for Environment and Development at the University of Oslo. Taylor works principally in the areas of religion and ecology, environmental ethics and environmental philosophy. He is also a prominent historian and ethnographer of environmentalism and especially radical environmentalist movements, surfing culture and nature-based spiritualities. Taylor is also editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature and subsequently founded the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, serving as its president from 2006 to 2009. He also founded the society's affiliated Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, serving as its editor since 2007.
Bron Taylor's Published Works
Published Works
- Ecological resistance movements : the global emergence of radical and popular environmentalism (1996) (150)
- Anthropocentrism: More than Just a Misunderstood Problem (2018) (133)
- Why ecocentrism is the key pathway to sustainability (2017) (108)
- Surfing into Spirituality and a New, Aquatic Nature Religion (2007) (93)
- Earth and Nature-Based Spirituality (Part I): From Deep Ecology to Radical Environmentalism (2001) (92)
- “The ‘future of conservation’ debate: Defending ecocentrism and the Nature Needs Half movement” (2018) (74)
- Dark Green Religion: Nature Spirituality and the Planetary Future (2009) (70)
- Religion, violence and radical environmentalism: From earth first! to the Unabomber to the earth liberation front (1998) (69)
- The Greening of Religion Hypothesis (Part Two): Assessing the Data from Lynn White, Jr, to Pope Francis (2016) (67)
- Lynn White Jr. and the greening‐of‐religion hypothesis (2016) (55)
- Earthen Spirituality or Cultural Genocide?: Radical Environmentalism's Appropriation of Native American Spirituality (1997) (53)
- The Tributaries of Radical Environmentalism (2008) (49)
- The need for ecocentrism in biodiversity conservation (2020) (46)
- A green future for religion (2004) (46)
- Earth and Nature-Based Spirituality (Part II): From Earth First! and Bioregionalism to Scientific Paganism and the New Age (2001) (45)
- The Greening of Religion Hypothesis (Part One): From Lynn White, Jr and Claims That Religions Can Promote Environmentally Destructive Attitudes and Behaviors to Assertions They Are Becoming Environmentally Friendly (2016) (36)
- Why conservation scientists should re‐embrace their ecocentric roots (2018) (34)
- Earth First! and the Anti-Roads Movement: Radical Environmentalism and Comparative Social Movements (2001) (34)
- Bioregionalism: An Ethics of Loyalty to Place (2000) (31)
- If we want a whole Earth, Nature Needs Half: a response to Büscher et al. (2017) (28)
- Affirmative Action at Work: Law, Politics, and Ethics (1991) (23)
- THREAT ASSESSMENTS AND RADICAL ENVIRONMENTALISM (2003) (23)
- Exploring Religion, Nature and Culture—Introducing the Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture (2007) (19)
- Editor’s Introduction: Toward a Robust Scientific Investigation of the ‘Religion’ Variable in the Quest for Sustainability (2011) (18)
- Protecting Half the Planet and Transforming Human Systems Are Complementary Goals (2021) (14)
- Civil society in the age of monitory democracy (2013) (14)
- Religion to the Rescue (?) in an Age of Climate Disruption (2015) (12)
- Focus Introduction: Aquatic Nature Religion (2007) (11)
- “Nature's contributions to people” and peoples' moral obligations to nature (2022) (7)
- “It's Not All about Us”: Reflections on the State of American Environmental History (2013) (7)
- 13. Wilderness, Spirituality and Biodiversity in North America – tracing an environmental history from Occidental roots to Earth Day (2012) (7)
- Dark green humility: religious, psychological, and affective attributes of proenvironmental behaviors (2019) (6)
- Opening Pandora's Film (2011) (5)
- On Sacred or Secular Ground? Callicott and Environmental Ethics (1997) (5)
- Evoking the ecological self (1993) (5)
- Rebels against the Anthropocene? Ideology, Spirituality, Popular Culture, and Human Domination of the World within the Disney Empire (2020) (4)
- Michael Soulé (1936–2020) on spirituality, ethics, and conservation biology (2020) (4)
- Religion and Environmentalism in America and Beyond (2006) (4)
- Kenya’s Green Belt Movement: Contributions, Conflict, Contradictions, and Complications in a Prominent ENGO (2013) (3)
- The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature Volume 1 (2007) (3)
- Arborphilia and Sacred Rebellion (2013) (3)
- The Sacred, Reverence for Life, and Environmental Ethics in America (2017) (3)
- COMPLICATIONS IN A PROMINENT ENVIRONMENTAL NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION (ENGO) (2013) (3)
- Religion, Violence, and Radical Environmentalism (2012) (3)
- Editors' Introduction: The Religious Lives of Amazonian Plants (2009) (3)
- Earthcare: An Anthology in Environmental Ethics (2009) (3)
- Biostitutes and Biocultural Conservation: Empire and Irony in the Motion Picture Avatar (2018) (2)
- Deep Blue: Sea spirituality, surfing and aquatic nature religion (2008) (2)
- Into the New Age (2013) (2)
- Religion, COVID-19, and Biocultural Evolution (2022) (2)
- Ecological Resistance Movements; Not Always Deep but if Deep, Religious: Reply to Devall (1996) (2)
- Envisioning Ecotopia: The U.S. Green Movement and the Politics of Radical Social Change, by Kenn Kassman, Westport, CT: Praeger, 1998. Reviewed by Bron Taylor (1998) (1)
- FIELD NOTES: The United Nations (Via Religion and Its Affiliated Agencies) to the Rescue in the Cause of Conservation? (2016) (1)
- Special Issue Introduction: Religion and Eco-Resistance Movements in the 21st Century (2017) (1)
- To Care for Creation: The Emergence of the Religious Environmental Movement. By Stephen Ellingson. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. Pp. x+203. $30.00 (paper). (2017) (1)
- Trends in Religion and Environmental Politics into the Twenty‐First Century (2016) (1)
- Introduction: Arborphilia through the Ages (2015) (1)
- Exploring Religion, Nature and Culture (continued): The Growing Field, Society, and Journal (2011) (1)
- Resistance: Do the Ends Justify the Means? (2013) (1)
- Apocalypse Then, Now - and Future? (2020) (0)
- Editor's Introduction: Further Into Religion and Nature (2014) (0)
- Blue River Declaration: A New Conversation about an Earth-based Ethic (2012) (0)
- Chapter 1. Introducing Religion and Dark Green Religion (2019) (0)
- Dark Green Religion: A Decade Later (2021) (0)
- Is Green Religion an Oxymoron (2013) (0)
- Appendix: Excerpts with Commentary on the Writings of Henry David Thoreau (2019) (0)
- Editor's Introduction: Encountering Leopold (2011) (0)
- A sample entry from the Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature (2005) (0)
- Anthropocentrism: More than Just a Misunderstood Problem (2018) (0)
- Chapter 4. Radical Environmentalism (2019) (0)
- Special Issues: Past and Future (2012) (0)
- Book reviews (2000) (0)
- Taylor et al--LynnWhite+GreeningOfReligionHypothesis Conservation Biology(2016)AcceptedArtOnlineVsrn (2016) (0)
- "Resistance: Do the Ends Justify the Means?". in Worldwatch Institute's State of the World 2013 (2013) (0)
- The Beat Generation Writers (2005) (0)
- Introducing Religion and Nature Religion and Nature Conundrums the Evolution of Interest in Religion and Nature Religion and Nature from Seventeenth-century Europe to the Environmental Age (0)
- Subject Index Vol. 3 (1969) (0)
- Editor's Introduction: Religion and Nature in Asia and the Himalayas (2014) (0)
- Chapter 5. Surfing Spirituality (2019) (0)
- Religion and the Rise of Environmental Politics in the Twentieth Century (2016) (0)
- Avatar as Rorschach (2011) (0)
- Theologians and the Asylum (2009) (0)
- Afterword on Terminology (2019) (0)
- Back to Religion and Nature (2009) (0)
- Editorial Introduction: Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture: A Decade of Critical Inquiry (2016) (0)
- Introduction (2021) (0)
- Chapter 7. Globalization in Arts, Sciences, and Letters (2019) (0)
- Corrigendum to “The ‘future of conservation’ debate: Defending ecocentrism and the nature needs half movement” [Biol. Conserv. 217 140–148] (2017) (0)
- Sociology (1992) (0)
- Title, Table of Contents, Preface (1999) (0)
- Chapter 8. Terrapolitan Earth Religion (2019) (0)
- Nature's Ghosts: Confronting Extinction from the Age of Jefferson to the Age of Ecology. By Mark V. Barrow Jr. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. xii, 497 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-226-03814-8.) (2010) (0)
- Editor’s Introduction: Contesting Consecrated Scientific Narratives in Religion and Environmental Ethics (2015) (0)
- Chapter 9. Conclusion: Dark Green Religion and the Planetary Future (2019) (0)
- Introduction: Nature-venerating Spiritualities (2013) (0)
- Book Review: Marx and the Bible: A Critique of the Philosophy of Oppression (1978) (0)
- Jay Wexler, When God Isn’t Green: A World-Wide Journey to Places Where Religious Practice and Environmentalism Collide (Boston: Beacon Press, 2016), 216 pp., $20.00 (pbk), ISBN: 978-0-80700-192-9 (2016) (0)
- Chapter 2. Dark Green Religion (2019) (0)
- Afterword (2020) (0)
- Apocalypse Then, Now-and Future? (2020) (0)
- Taylor-Avatar (f).indd (2013) (0)
- Nature & Supernature— Harmony & Mastery: Irony and Evolution in Contemporary Nature Religion (2012) (0)
- Religion meets nature (2001) (0)
- Chapter 3. Dark Green Religion in North America (2019) (0)
- Idolatry, Paganism, and Trust in Nature (2011) (0)
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