"What constructive role might/can religion play within and on behalf of the planetary community? If we take religion in both of its etymological senses—broadly (relegere) as reconsidering, re-reading or re-thinking, and more narrowly (religare) as binding back or re-assembling—then we might very well think of religion as critical (re)attunement to the worlds in which we live: reconsidering new experiences and evidence in the world and re-assembling the world in new ways."

Whitney A. Bauman is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Florida International University in Miami, USA. His research and teaching interests focus on “religion and science,” and “religion and ecology / nature.” His most recent books include: Religion and Ecology: Developing A Planetary Ethic (Columbia University Press, 2014), and with Kevin O’Brien, Environmental Ethics and Uncertainty: Wrestling with Wicked Problems (Routledge 2019). He is currently working on a manuscript that deals with the ideas of Rachel Carson and Marjory Stoneman Douglas. In 2018, along with Kocku von Stuckrad, he co-founded Counterpoint: Navigating Knowledges in Berlin, a non-profit organization that seeks to bring academic voices around issues of globalization and climate change into dialogue with a wider public audience.