Dark Green Religion: Nature Spirituality and the Planetary Future, by Bron Taylor

This ambitious work seeks to set forth a new religious tradition characterized by its central concern for the fate of the planet. Seeking a postmodern, non-theistic response to the problems foisted upon the globe by rapacious human activity, Bron Taylor rejects the notion that standard theology can face up to the challenge of fixing the myriad stresses that currently imperil the Earth’s ecosystems. Instead, he proposes a new sensory and sensible model that ensures sustainability without the trappings of religious structures and institutions. The sensory aspects of this new religion will connect people with the beauties of nature. The sensible aspects will embrace the new cosmological story, finding, as in the work of Thomas Berry, inspiration in the scientific narrative and hence reasons to embrace and enact the values of environmental ethics.