Summer travel log

Religion prof explains the backstory to The Overstory and its “dark green religion”

During an interview in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Richard Powers indicated that in The Overstory, his Pulitzer Prize-winning arboreal novel, there is a lot of what University of Florida religion professor Bron Taylor called “Dark Green Religion” in his own book on contemporary nature spirituality. “Dark Green Religion,” according to Professor Taylor is, “a […]

#FieldworkFridays hits UF Religion Social Media

During the summer our faculty & graduate students not only teach summer courses and attend to long neglected reading lists, they also depart for various locales to engage in invaluable fieldwork projects. This summer is no different. From Trinidad to Ethiopia, Poland to Texas, and many places abroad and in between our department is engaged […]

Summer Students Explore Non-Western Healing Practices

Professor Robin M. Wright (ONLINE) This course is dedicated to the study of non-Western healers and medicine in relation to various religious traditions around the globe. The most important themes we shall discuss are: the efficacy of religious symbols in the healing process; cross-cultural notions of the body, pain, and healing; embodiment of healing powers […]

Poco a Poco: Reflections on Cuba and my Pilgrimage to see Pope Francis

In September 2015 Vickie Machado took part in the Archdiocese of Miami’s Young Adult Papal Visit to Cuba. Below are some of her personal reflections on faith, the Pope, & pilgrimage that help us appreciate the intersections of religion & nature and religion in the Americas. Her views are her own, we share this as […]

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