In the new episode of the Yale Divinity School podcast series, John Grim, Co-Director of the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology, discusses the relationship between Indigenous spiritualities and the environment, why religion needs to be part of the fight against climate change, and how he responds to climate change deniers.
“Native elders say to us, ‘We have been living in your future for 500 years. We already have that sense of dramatic and traumatic change imposed upon us,’” Grim says in the episode.
Listen to the episode on Soundcloud.
Co-founder of the religion and ecology forum with his wife, Mary Evelyn Tucker, John Grim is a scholar of Native American and Indigenous spiritualities, world religions, and ecology. He has undertaken field work with the Crow/Apsaalooke people of Montana and Salish people of Washington state. His published works include: The Shaman: Patterns of Religious Healing Among the Ojibway Indians (University of Oklahoma Press, 1983) and, with Mary Evelyn Tucker, a co-edited volume entitled Worldviews and Ecology (Orbis, 1994). He edited Indigenous Traditions and Ecology: The InterBeing of Cosmology and Community (Harvard, 2001) and co-edited the Daedalus volume titled Religion and Ecology: Can the Climate Change? (2001).
The YDS Quadcast is hosted by Emily Judd ‘19 M.A.R., who is Senior Communications Specialist at the Higher Committee of Human Fraternity, an international humanitarian organization supported by Pope Francis, the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, and the leadership of the United Arab Emirates. She previously worked as a journalist in the Middle East.
Listen to past episodes of the YDS Quadcast.