Mary Evelyn Tucker

Touching the Depth of Things: Cultivating Nature in East Asia

March 18, 2006

Presented at the Ethics, Values, and the Environment conference. RealPlayer is required to listen to and view this event.

About the Speaker (2006)

Mary Evelyn Tucker is co-director of the Forum on Religion and Ecology. She is the author of Worldly Wonder: Religions Enter Their Ecological Phase and Moral and Spiritual Cultivation in Japanese Neo-Confucianism. She also edited two volumes on Confucian spirituality with Tu Weiming and the "Religions of the World and Ecology" series with John Grim. She received her PhD from Columbia University in East Asian religions. From 1993 to 1996 she was a National Endowment for the Humanities Chair at Bucknell University and until 2005 was a professor of religion at Bucknell. In 2006 she will be a visiting professor at Yale in the Institute for Social and Public Policy. She is currently a visiting scholar at the Graduate Theological Union, University of California, Berkeley.

Go to:

• Next conference presentation, by Michael D. Jackson
• Ethics, Values, and the Environment conference page
• CSWR Resources on Religion and the Environment