Selected Publications        

Books, etc

Claiming Sacred Ground: Pilgrims and Politics at Glastonbury and Sedona (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001). Click to go to the publisher’s web site. 

Read the first chapter here.

Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature with Laura Hobgood Oster, Jeffrey Kaplan, Bron R. Taylor (Editor-in-Chief), and Michael York (London: Thoemmes Continuum, 2005).

In Progress:  Ecologies of Identity: Enchantments of Nature and Culture in a Globalizing World.

In Progress:  Ecologies of the Moving Image: Cinema, Affect, Nature.

Some recent journal articles and book chapters

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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