Interviewees

Mary Evelyn Tucker

Mary Evelyn Tucker is a Senior Lecturer and Senior Scholar at Yale University where she has appointments in the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies as well as the Divinity School and the Department of Religious Studies. She is a co-founder and co-director of the Forum on Religion and Ecology and organized a conference series on World Religions and Ecology at Harvard Divinity School. She is also Research Associate at the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard. 

She is the author of numerous books, including 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  a series of books examining religion and ecology as well as a Daedalus volume titled Religion and Ecology: Can the Climate Change? (2001). She edited several of Thomas Berry's books including Evening Thoughts (Sierra Club Books and University of California Press, 2006), The Sacred Universe (Columbia Univ. Press, 2009), Christian Future and the Fate of Earth (Orbis Book, 2009). 

She is a member of the Interfaith Partnership for the Environment at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), served on the International Earth Charter Drafting Committee from 1997-2000 and is a member of the Earth Charter International Council.

Videos featuring Mary Evelyn Tucker

  • World Religions Have a Role

    Author and scholar Mary Evelyn Tucker explains that the global ecological crisis is at its root spiritual, and therefore the world religions have a part to play.

    (1 min 30 sec)

  • Grounded in Story

    Author and scholar Mary Evelyn Tucker illustrates the power and purpose of story and explains how they ground and orient us in the world.

    (1 min 48 sec)

  • Hypermodernity

    Author and scholar Mary Evelyn Tucker describes how the modern day enlightenment mentality has turned into hyper-individualism and a mechanized view of the world. She further suggests that the current economic crisis can potentially help bring economics and ecology back into proper balance and relationship.

    (2 min 24 sec)

  • Drive for Progress

    Author and scholar Mary Evelyn Tucker explains that when we link progress to industrialization without any sense of limits or nature as a guide, the result is the current global crisis.

    (1 min 38 sec)

  • Reciprocity and Restraint

    Author and scholar Mary Evelyn Tucker speaks about the modern need to recover a deep sense of reciprocity and restraint, which was once found in religious rituals and practices.

    (3 min 9 sec)

  • Nature's Energy

    Author and scholar Mary Evelyn Tucker explains that in our current physical and spiritual search for sustainable energies, we can look to Indigenous Peoples for their sense of traditional environmental knowledge and the immediate power of nature.

    (2 min 34 sec)

  • Science and Cosmology

    Author and scholar Mary Evelyn Tucker claims humanity is standing at a crossroads. She explains that we need to take all the knowledge and information we have learned from science and give it a sense of story. Only then will we see our role and responsibility as part of the whole and for the future.

    (2 min 47 sec)

  • Power Over Nature

    Author and scholar Mary Evelyn Tucker explains that humanity has overextended its presence, technologies and sense of control. We need to once again listen to the voices of nature and become co-creators not dominators.

    (3 min 1 sec)

  • Can We Evolve Fast Enough?

    Despite the current global crisis, author and scholar Mary Evelyn Tucker is positive about the potential of human evolution and consciousness.

    (2 min 13 sec)

  • Mary Evelyn Tucker: Complete Interview

    In this complete interview, author and scholar Mary Evelyn Tucker reveals that humanity is currently at a crossroads integrating science and cosmology. She explains that we need to take all the knowledge and information we have learned from science and ground it in a renewed relationship to the earth, which is inherently spiritual. Only then, says Tucker, will we find real solutions to the current issues of our time.

    (23 min 58 sec)
"We are participants in a process that will always be larger than our imagination or our best sciences can fully explain."
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