Luminary: Mary Evelyn Tucker

Luminary: Mary Evelyn Tucker

Mary Evelyn Tucker is a co-founder and co-director of the Forum on Religion and Ecology. With John Grim, she organized a series of ten conferences on World Religions and Ecology at the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School. They are series editors for the ten volumes from the conferences distributed by Harvard University Press.

She is the author of Worldly Wonder: Religions Enter Their Ecological Phase (Open Court Press, 2003) and Moral and Spiritual Cultivation in Japanese Neo-Confucianism (SUNY 1989). She co-edited Worldviews and Ecology (Orbis, 1994), Buddhism and Ecology (Harvard, 1997), Confucianism and Ecology (Harvard, 1998), and Hinduism and Ecology (Harvard, 2000) and When Worlds Converge (Open Court, 2002). With Tu Weiming she edited two volumes on Confucian Spirituality (Crossroad, 2003, 2004). She also co-edited a Daedalus volume titled Religion and Ecology: Can the Climate Change? (2001). She edited Thomas Berry's book, Evening Thoughts : Reflecting on Earth as Sacred Community (Sierra Club Books and University of California Press, 2006).

She received her PhD from Columbia University in East Asian religions with a concentration in Confucianism in China and Japan.

Until 2005 she was a professor of religion at Bucknell University where she taught courses in Asian religions and Religion and Ecology. From 1993 - 1996 she was a National Endowment for the Humanities Chair at Bucknell. Mary Evelyn is currently visiting professor at the Insitution for Social and Policy Studies at Yale University. She is a member of the Interfaith Partnership for the Environment at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and served as a member of the International Earth Charter Drafting Committee from 1997-2000. She is a member of the newly appointed Earth Charter International Council.

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