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Indigenous Religions & Ecology
  • Level Foundation
  • المدة 24 ساعات hours
  • الطبع بواسطة Yale University
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At first glance the fields of religion and ecology may seem and unlikely pairing, but a deeper consideration reveals the two have a great deal to contribute to one another and are indeed inextricably linked. Religions recognize the unity and interdependence of humans with nature. Ecological sciences affirm this deep interconnection with the natural world. This partnership can inspire work for the wellbeing of the Earth community There is a need for broader literacy and deeper knowledge of the world’s religions and their ecological contributions. This specialization, "Religions and Ecology: Restoring the Earth Community", contributes such a perspective. Each course celebrates the vitality of religiously-informed action for the Earth and recognizes the longstanding contributions of Indigenous peoples in offering visions and practices for ecological flourishing. This is course 2 of 5 in the "Religions and Ecology: Restoring the Earth Community" specialization that focuses on the ecological dimensions of religious traditions throughout the world. The course is designed as a gateway to the significant contributions of Indigenous peoples of Africa, Asia, the Americas, and Pacific Regions for environmental understanding. The diversity of Indigenous communities around the planet makes selective coverage necessary, but shared patterns of resilience manifest themselves worldwide. So much has emerged in the last several decades in understanding traditional environmental knowledge, as you will see. This course is for lifelong learners curious to know more about world religions and ecology, environmental professionals eager to deepen the discourse of environmental protection and conservation, those working with non-profit organizations and NGOs on issues of ecological justice, and religion leaders and laity who wish to know how they can contribute to interreligious dialogue on environmental projects.

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Overview of the Course: Indigenous Religions and Ecology

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2 Videos

  • Land Acknowledgement - John Grim and Mary Evelyn Tucker
  • Course Overview: Indigenous Religions and Ecology - John Grim and Mary Evelyn Tucker

3 Readings

  • Course Rationale
  • How this course is organized
  • Disclaimer

Get to know your Instructors and the Environmental Context

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    • 4 Readings
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1 Discussions

  • Module 1: Course Introduction

2 Videos

  • Personal Introduction - Mary Evelyn Tucker
  • Personal Introduction - John Grim

4 Readings

  • Learn more about your Instructors
  • (Optional) Religion and Ecology Conferences and Book Series, 1996-1998
  • Pre-video introduction: The Promise of Planetary Health
  • (Optional) Ways to Learn More

2.1 - Overview of the Study of Indigenous Religions and Ecology

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    • 3 Readings
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  • Lecture - Overview of the Study of Indigenous Religions and Ecology - John Grim

3 Readings

  • Pre-video introduction: “Indigenization”
  • Pre-video introduction: “The Honorable Harvest”
  • (Optional) Ways to Learn More

2.2 - Terms and Topics in the Study of Indigenous Religions and Ecology

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  • Lecture - Terms and Topics in the Study of Indigenous Religions and Ecology - John Grim

2 Readings

  • Pre-video introduction: “Rights and Responsibilities”
  • (Optional) Ways to Learn More

2.3 - Indigenous Peoples in a Contemporary Global Context

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    • 5 Readings
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1 Assignment

  • Module 2: Introduction to the Study of Indigenous Religions and Ecology

1 Discussions

  • Module 2: Introduction to the Study of Indigenous Religions and Ecology

1 Videos

  • Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, “Indigenous Identity, Indigenous Rights, and Forest Protection”

5 Readings

  • UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP)
  • Pre-video introduction: “Indigenous Identity, Indigenous Rights, and Forest Protection”
  • The Indigenous World
  • Interfaith Rainforest Initiative
  • (Optional) Ways to Learn More

From Decolonization to Restoration in Indigenous Communities

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    • 6 Readings
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1 Assignment

  • Module 3: From Decolonization to Restoration in Indigenous Communities

1 Discussions

  • Module 3: From Decolonization to Restoration in Indigenous Communities

7 Videos

  • Lecture - From Decolonizing to Restoration: Terms and Topics - John Grim
  • Lecture - From Decolonizing to Restoration: Cosmovision, Spiritual Ecology, and Cosmopolitics - John Grim
  • Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, "Global Indigenous Sovereignty and Environmental Governance." Interview by John Grim
  • Lecture - Lifeway and Symbolic Consciousness - John Grim
  • Lecture - Self-Determination and Sovereignty- John Grim
  • Lecture - Indigenous Ways of Knowing - John Grim
  • Tiokasin Ghosthorse, "Lakota Consciousness and Ecological Relationships." Interview by John Grim

6 Readings

  • Pre-video introduction: “On Decolonizing Methodologies”
  • Pre-video introduction: “Global Indigenous Sovereignty and Environmental Governance”
  • Pre-video introduction: “Brazil’s Indigenous Land is Being Invaded”
  • Decolonizing Conquest Consciousness
  • Pre-video introduction: “Lakota Consciousness and Ecological Relationships”
  • (Optional) Ways to Learn More

4.1 - Colonial Encounters to Contemporary Resurgence

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    • 4 Readings
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2 Videos

  • Lecture - Indigenous Religions and Ecology: From Encounter to Contemporary Activism - John Grim
  • Melissa Nelson, "Indigenous Cosmovisions and Foodways in North America." Interview by John Grim.

4 Readings

  • Pre-video introduction: “Hopi Messenger: Thomas Banyacya”
  • North America: Native ecologies and cosmovisions renew treaties with the Earth and fuel Indigenous movements
  • Pre-video introduction: “Indigenous Cosmovisions and Foodways in North America”
  • (Optional) Ways to Learn More

4.2 - Ritual Revival and Community Renewal

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1 Videos

  • Jeannette Armstrong, "Okanagan Lifeways and Indigenous Environmental Activism." Interview by John Grim

4 Readings

  • Pre-video introduction: “Thomas Yellowtail, Crown Sun Dance Chief”
  • Pre-video introduction: “Okanagan Lifeways and Indigenous Environmental Activism”
  • Indigenous Traditions and the Nurturing Power of Nature
  • (Optional) Ways to Learn More

4.3 - Ecosystem Restoration

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3 Readings

  • Pre-video introduction: “River of Kings, Part 1: Restoration”
  • Pre-video introduction: “Why lakes and rivers should have the same rights as humans”
  • (Optional) Ways to Learn More

4.4 - Challenges for Arctic Indigenous Peoples

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    • 1 Assignment
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1 Assignment

  • Module 4: Native North Americans

1 Discussions

  • Module 4: Native North Americans

4 Readings

  • Pre-video introduction: “Human Trauma and Climate Trauma”
  • Pre-video introduction: “Gwichi’in Voices for the Arctic Refuge”
  • Ontology on the ice: Inuit traditions, ecology, and the problem of categories
  • (Optional) Ways to Learn More

5.1 - Resilience among Meso-American Indigenous Peoples

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    • 6 Readings
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1 Videos

  • Miguel Astor-Aguilera, "Mayan Ecological Practices and Cosmovisions in Mesoamerica." Interview by John Grim

6 Readings

  • Pre-video introduction: “Mayan Elder Paula López Domingo Speaks”
  • Pre-video introduction: “Mayan Ecological Practices and Cosmovisions in Mesoamerica”
  • (Optional) Latin America: Indigenous Cosmovision
  • Pre-video introduction: “Preventing Environmental & Human Abuses in Oaxaca, Mexico”
  • Religion, Ritual, and Agriculture among the Present-Day Nahua of Mesoamerica
  • (Optional) Ways to Learn More

5.2 - Cosmovision and Cosmopolitics among South American Indigenous Peoples

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1 Videos

  • Ana Mariella Bacigalupo, “South American Shamanism and Indigenous Cosmopolitics.” Interview by John Grim

5 Readings

  • Pre-video introduction: “The Xapiri look after everything”
  • Pre-video introduction: “Brazilian Indigenous Leader Davi Kopenawa”
  • Pre-video introduction: “The Amazon belongs to humanity -- let’s protect it together” 1min
  • Pre-video introduction: “South American Shamanism and Indigenous Cosmopolitics”
  • (Optional) Ways to Learn More

5.3 - Indigenous Leadership in the Framing of Earth Law

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1 Assignment

  • Module 5: Native Peoples in Meso-America and South America

1 Discussions

  • Module 5: Native Peoples in Meso-America and South America

5 Readings

  • Pre-video introduction: Trailer for “The Rights of Nature: A Global Movement”
  • Universal Declaration of Rights of Mother Earth - The Rights of Nature
  • Pre-video introduction: “The Rights of Nature: A Global Movement”
  • Pre-video introduction: “Pay it Forward”
  • (Optional) Ways to Learn More

6.1 - Wangari Maathai and the Green Belt Movement

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2 Videos

  • Wangari Maathai, “‘As Revealed to You’: Environments that Shape Our Stories”
  • Wangari Maathai, “Recapturing Values for the Community of the Living”

3 Readings

  • Pre-video introduction: “Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai”
  • Pre-video introduction: “As Revealed to You” and “Recapturing Values for the Community of the Living”
  • (Optional) Ways to Learn More

6.2 - African Spirituality and Ecological Stewardship

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    • 6 Readings
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2 Videos

  • Jacob Kehinde Olupona, “Yoruba Cosmology and Environmental Knowledge in Africa.” Interview by John Grim
  • Jessie N. K. Mugambi, "African Ecological Identity and Religious Environmentalism." Interview by John Grim

6 Readings

  • Pre-video introduction: “Rethinking the Study of African Indigenous Religion in the 21st Century”
  • Pre-video introduction: “Yoruba Cosmology and Environmental Knowledge in Africa”
  • Communicating African Spirituality through Ecology: Challenges and Prospects for the 21st Century
  • Pre-video introduction: “African Ecological Identity and Religious Environmentalism”
  • (Optional) Jessie N. K. Mugambi, “African Heritage and Ecological Stewardship”
  • (Optional) Ways to Learn More

6.3 - Activism in Forest Conservation

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4 Readings

  • “It’s our home”: Pygmies fight for recognition as forest protectors
  • Pre-video introduction: “The Man Who Stopped the Desert”
  • The traditions that could save a nation’s forests
  • (Optional) Ways to Learn More

6.4 - Science and Traditional Knowledge Responding to Climate Emergency

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1 Assignment

  • Module 6: Native Peoples of Africa

1 Discussions

  • Module 6: Native Peoples of Africa

4 Readings

  • African Religion, Climate Change, and Knowledge Systems
  • Pre-video introduction: "Indigenous knowledge meets science to take on climate change"
  • Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, “Women's Leadership in Chad”
  • (Optional) Ways to Learn More

7.1 - Resistance among Himalayan Indigenous Peoples

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2 Videos

  • Charisma K. Lepcha, “Lepcha Identity and Environmentalism in the Eastern Himalayas.” Interview by John Grim
  • Dan Smyer Yu, "Indigenous Peoples and Ecological Knowledge in the Himalayas." Interview by John Grim

4 Readings

  • Pre-video introduction: “Lepcha Identity and Environmentalism in the Eastern Himalayas”
  • An Indigenous Cosmovisionary Turn in the Study of Religion and Ecology
  • Pre-video introduction: “Indigenous Peoples and Ecological Knowledge in the Himalayas”
  • (Optional) Ways to Learn More

7.2 - Environmental Struggles for South Asian Indigenous Peoples (Adivasis in India)

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4 Readings

  • Pre-video introduction: “Indigenous peoples India”
  • The Adivasi Struggle Against Environmental Injustice
  • Pre-video introduction: “Conservation threatens India’s Baiga tribe”
  • (Optional) Ways to Learn More

7.3 - Forest Conservation among Southwest Chinese and Southeast Asian Indigenous Peoples

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1 Videos

  • Guest Lecture - Problematizing Ideas of “Purity” and “Timelessness” in the Conservation Narratives of Sacred Groves - Lily Zeng

6 Readings

  • Pre-video introduction: “Problematizing Ideas of ‘Purity’ and ‘Timelessness’ in the Conservation Narratives of Sacred Groves”
  • Pre-video introduction: “Cambodia: Fight for Areng Valley”
  • Indigenous World 2019: Philippines
  • Pre-video introduction: “Indigenous climate change solutions in Indonesia”
  • (Optional) Pre-video introduction: “Tradition and landscape management in West Timor”
  • (Optional) Ways to Learn More

7.4 - Central Asian Indigenous Peoples and the Struggle for Identity

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    • 5 Readings
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  • Module 7: Indigenous Peoples in Asia

1 Discussions

  • Module 7: Indigenous Peoples in Asia

1 Videos

  • Looking Up

5 Readings

  • Pre-video introduction: “Looking Up”
  • Pre-video introduction: “The Shamans of Tuva”
  • (Optional) Pre-video introduction: “Altai Pilgrim - Standing on Sacred Ground”
  • Ancient Faith, Modern Market: Siberian Shamanism Takes on the 21st Century
  • (Optional) Ways to Learn More

8.1 - Aboriginal Worldviews

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5 Readings

  • Pre-video introduction: “The myth of Aboriginal stories being myths”
  • Pre-video Introduction: “The Land Owns Us”
  • Pre-video introduction: “Every Living Thing is Family”
  • Some Thoughts about the Philosophical Underpinnings of Aboriginal Worldviews
  • (Optional) Ways to Learn More

8.2 - Torres Strait Islanders and Recovery of Identity

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5 Readings

  • Pre-video introduction: Trailer for “Ailan Kastom”
  • (Optional) Pre-video introduction: “Ailan Kastom (Island Custom) - Torres Strait Documentary”
  • Torres Strait Regional Authority
  • The Mayor Fighting to Save Her Island Home from Climate Change
  • (Optional) Ways to Learn More

8.3 - Storytelling, Music, and Arts

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  • Kerry Arabena, "Australian Indigenous Peoples and Cosmopolitics." Interview by John Grim

6 Readings

  • Pre-video introduction: “Songlines: Aboriginal Art and Storytelling”
  • Pre-video introduction: “Sharing a story through Aboriginal Australian Songline”
  • (Optional) Pre-video introduction: “Gujingga Songline”
  • Pre-video introduction: “Aboriginal Art and Music”
  •  Pre-video introduction: “Australian Indigenous Peoples and Cosmopolitics” 1min
  • (Optional) Ways to Learn More

8.4 - Indigenous Knowledge and Kinship with Water and Fire

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1 Assignment

  • Module 8: First Nations in Australia

1 Discussions

  • Module 8: First Nations in Australia

3 Readings

  • Pre-video introduction: “Aboriginal Water Initiative”
  • Pre-video introduction: “Three things I know about fire management”
  • (Optional) Ways to Learn More

9.1 - Māori Cosmovisions and Cosmopolitics

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    • 9 Readings
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  • Krushil Watene, “Māori Knowledge and Indigenous Landscapes in New Zealand.” Interview by John Grim

9 Readings

  • Pre-video introduction: “Maori values - Manaaki”
  • In search of harmony: Indigenous traditions of the Pacific and ecology
  • Pre-video introduction: “The Rights of Nature: A Global Movement”
  • New Zealand river first in the world to be given legal human status
  •  Pre-video introduction: “Māori Knowledge and Indigenous Landscapes in New Zealand” 1min
  • (Optional) Pre-video introduction: “Kaitiakitanga”
  • (Optional) World looks to Maori on environmental issues
  •  Pre-video introduction: “The Power of Water”
  • (Optional) Ways to Learn More

9.2 - Hawai’ian Transoceanic Voyages and Cultural Revival

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  • Module 9: Indigenous Peoples of the Pacific

1 Discussions

  • Module 9: Indigenous Peoples of the Pacific

11 Readings

  • Pre-video introduction: “History of Hokulea”
  • Pre-video introduction: “Mau Piailug”
  • (Optional) Pre-video introduction: “Hōkūleʻa Worldwide Voyage Recap” and “Hokulea Homecoming”
  • Pre-video introduction: “Long Story Short with Leslie Wilcox: Nainoa Thompson”
  • The Story of Hōkūle’a
  • Pre-video introduction: “Standing on Sacred Ground - Islands of Sanctuary”
  • Returning to the Roots of Community Resilience in Hawai’i
  • Pre-video introduction: “Like a Mighty Wave: A Maunakea Film”
  • (Optional) “A New Hawaiian Renaissance”: how a telescope protest became a movement
  • Pre-video introduction: “Kū Ha’aheo E Ku’u Hawai’i”
  • (Optional) Ways to Learn More

Untitled Lesson

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  • Course Conclusion: Indigenous Religions and Ecology - John Grim and Mary Evelyn Tucker

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  • Letter from John Grim and Mary Evelyn Tucker

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"Indigenous Religions & Ecology" explores the ecological dimensions of global religious traditions, emphasizing Indigenous contributions. Taught by Coursera, this foundational course is part of a five-course specialization aimed at lifelong learners, environmental professionals, NGO workers, and religious leaders. Over 1440 minutes, it delves into the interconnectedness of religion and ecology, offering insights into traditional environmental knowledge. Subscription options include Starter and Professional.

Mary Evelyn Tucker
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Mary Evelyn Tucker

John Grim
Instructors

John Grim