Selected Publications        

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BOOKS, ETC.

Claiming Sacred Ground: Pilgrims and Politics at Glastonbury and Sedona (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001).
    Read the first chapter here

Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature, with L. Hobgood Oster, J. Kaplan, B. R. Taylor (ed.-in-ch.), and M. York, eds., 2 vols. (London: Thoemmes Continuum, 2005).

Ecologies of the Moving Image: Cinema, Affect, Nature (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, in review).

Ecologies of Identity: Enchantments of Nature and Culture in a Globalizing World (in progress).

Why Objects Fly Out the Window: A Process-Relational Manifesto-Thriller (in progress).

SOME RECENT JOURNAL ARTICLES & BOOK CHAPTERS

2012     “An Ecophilosophy of the Moving Image: Cinema as Anthrobiogeomorphic Machine,” in The Ecomedia Studies Reader, S. Rust, S. Monani, and S. Cubitt, eds., London: Routledge, in publication.

2012     “Intersections of Nature, Science, and Religion: An Introduction,” with Catherine M. Tucker, in C. M. Tucker, ed., Nature, Science, and Religion: Intersections Shaping Society and the Environment, Santa Fe, NM: School of Advanced Research (SAR) Press, in publication.

2012     “Religious (Re)Turns in the Wake of Global Nature: Toward a Cosmopolitics,” in C. M. Tucker, ed., Nature, Science, and Religion: Intersections Shaping Society and the Environment, Santa Fe, NM: School of Advanced Research (SAR) Press, in publication.

2012     “Teaching Ecocriticism and Cinema.” In Teaching Ecocriticism and Green Cultural Studies, ed. G. Garrard. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 144-155.

2011    "The Wound of What Has Not Happened Yet: Cine-Semiotics of Eco-Trauma." Umelec International 11.2.

2011     “Cinema of the Not-Yet: The Utopian Promise of Film as Heterotopia.” Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture 5 (2), 186-209.

2011     “The Anthrobiogeomorphic Machine: Stalking the Zone of Cinema.” Film-Philosophy 15.1, 118-139.

2010     “Opening Pandora’s Film,” with B. R. Taylor. Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture 4.4, 384-393.

2010     “Nature’s Nation: Improvisation, Democracy, and Ken Burns’ National Parks,” Environmental Communication 4 (4), 1-7.

2010     “From Frames to Resonance Machines: The Neuropolitics of Environmental Communication.” Environmental Communication 4 (1), 109-121.

2010      Review, Deleuze/Guattari and Ecology, ed. B. Herzogenrath. Speculations 1, 184-191.

2008      “Stirring the Geopolitical Unconscious: Towards a Jamesonian Ecocriticism?” New Formations 64: 98-109.

2008      “Social Nature: Collapsing Dichotomies Without Unraveling the Fabric of Things.” Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture 2 (2), 258-266.

2007      “Green Film Criticism and Its Futures.” Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 15 (2), 1-28. Also published in Foreign Literature Studies 29 (1), special issue on ecocriticism.

2007      “Religion, Nature, and Culture: Theorizing the Field.” Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture 1 (1): 47-57.

2007      “Power Trips: Making Sacred Space in New Age Pilgrimage.” In Handbook of New Age Religion, ed. James R. Lewis and Daren Kemp. Amsterdam and Boston: Brill Academic, 263-286.

2006      “Stoking the Heart of (a Certain) Europe: Crafting Hybrid Identities in the Ukraine-EU Borderlands.” Spaces of Identity 6 (1): 11-44.

2006      “Toward a Geography of ‘Religion’: On the Spatial Dimension of Significance.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 96 (1): 169-175. 

2006      “Coloring Cape Breton ‘Celtic’: Topographies of Culture and Identity in Cape Breton Island.” Ethnologies 27 (2): 107-136.

2005      “Nature and Ethnicity in East European Paganism: An Environmental Ethics of the Religious Right?” Pomegranate 7 (2): 194-225. 

2005      “In Search of Deeper Identities: Paganism and Native Faith in Contemporary Ukraine.” Nova Religio 8 (3): 7-38.

2005      “The Revival of Ukrainian Native Faith.” Modern Paganism in World Cultures: Comparative Perspectives, ed. Michael F. Strmiska. Oxford, U.K.: ABC-CLIO, 209-239.

2003      “Orchestrating Sacred Space: Beyond the ‘Social Construction’ of Nature.” Ecotheology: The Journal of Religion, Nature and the Environment 8 (1): 11-29

2003      “Nature and Self in New Age Pilgrimage.” Culture and Religion 4 (1): 93-118.

2003      “Seeing Red and Hearing Voices in Red Rock Country.” Deterritorializations: Revisioning Landscapes and Politics, ed. Mark Dorrian and Gillian Rose. London: Black Dog Publications, 296-308. 

2002      “Toward a Multicultural Ecology.” Organization and Environment 15 (4): 389-409.

2001      “Re-animations: Instinct and Civility After the Ends of ‘Man’ and ‘Nature.’” Critical Studies 15: 7-32 / B. Herzogenrath, ed., From Virgin Land to Disney World: Nature and Its Discontents in the USA of Yesterday and Today, Amsterdam/New York: Editions Rodopi, 2001.

2001      “Weathering Global Futures: Ecology, Economy, and the Unruly Tropics of the ‘Global’,” Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies 4: 5-26.

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