Hello everybody and welcome back to Rev. Left Radio. On today's episode I have a really,

really interesting conversation with the professor, Braun Taylor, and it's going to be centered

around his book Dark Green Religion, Nature Spirituality, and the Planetary Future.

Braun Taylor is a scholar, a conservationist, a professor of religion and nature, also a prominent

historian and ethnographer of environmentalism and specifically radical environmentalist

movements. He is editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature and founded

the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture, and many other things.

Just a very fascinating thinker and scholar who has traveled the world and wrote this fascinating

work that I recently came across devoured and immediately reached out to him to come on the

show because of dovetails so nicely with elements of this show, of my own spirituality, of my own

relationship to nature, and a lot of the things that I advocate here on the show. And this is a

really academic deep dive into the plurality of movements and ideas and practices that could be

put under the umbrella term Dark Green Religion or Dark Green Spirituality as it were.

And we get into those those distinctions and those nuances throughout this conversation.

Overall it's absolutely fascinating and really excited to share it with you.

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