CIIS Ecology, Spirituality, and Religion Program
Our graduate programs (MA and PhD) explore the roles that spirituality, philosophy, and religion play in generating and responding to ecological challenges.
The world's religious and spiritual traditions exist in complex relationships to ecological realities. Through critical exploration of these disciplines, our students develop a philosophical, theological, and methodological understanding of how to respond to the ecological imperatives of our moment in history.
Our program has come to understand that the ecological crisis represents a crisis of human consciousness and requires a fundamental revisioning of cultural values. To that end, our curriculum trains students to explore and contribute to scholarly and political discourses and practices, articulating academically rigorous, culturally informed, and ethical solutions for a more just, sustainable, and flourishing future.
Fall 2025 Book Launch–The Wisdom of Trees: Thinking Through Arboreality
Swati Thiyagarajan Keynote | 2025 Religion and Ecology Summit
Christo Mare - Influencing Planetary Evolution Through the Power of NonDual Metaphysics
Tami Codianne-Miller - Reimagining the World, One Home at a Time
Rivers and the Rights of Nature
Radical Remembering: A Gathering of Three Bodies of Water
Swati Thiyagarajan Keynote with Q&A
Water Spirituality and Ethics with Environmental Change
The Power of Water in Religious Networks and Creation
2025 Religion and Ecology Summit Opening and Welcome
Dr. Amy Bohorquez Doctoral Dissertation Defense
The Book of Creation with Rabbi Jill Hammer, PhD
Dr. Elizabeth Allison — An Epistemological Expedition into Vertiginous Animate Terrain
Desert Spirituality with Brother Gary Paul Nabhan, PhD
Human Entanglements with More-Than-Human-Worlds
Ecological Possibilities in Queer Lifeways
Hope in Queer Spiritual and Religious Landscapes
Relational Education and Activism
The Queer Subjective: Everywhere You Go There You Are
Outlandish! How LGBTQIA+ Teens are Claiming Their Space in the Outdoors
Ecotheology of the Hexameron
Ecology, Spirituality, and Religion Info Session
Sacred Mountains Panel
Writing A Life Story, Mary Evelyn Tucker, PhD
Welcome and Introduction to 2019 Religion and Ecology Summit, Dr. Elizabeth Allison
Dynamizing Functional Cosmology for a Flourishing Future, Devin O'Dea
It Takes a Universe to Educate a Child: The Influence of Berry’s Work on Young People, Steve Snider
White Supremacy in Ecological Movements, a conversation between Carl Anthony and Drew Dellinger
The Earth, the City, and the Hidden Narrative of Race, Carl Anthony
The Most Radical Thing a Person Can Think About, Drew Dellinger, PhD