IntroductionEcological degradation and climate change have emerged as some of the most urgent moral and existential challenges confronting humanity today. The accelerating loss of biodiversity, ...
A panel of tribal authorities, legal experts and scholars will discuss “Indigenous Religious Traditions and Law in the Current Political Moment,” hosted by UC Santa Barbara’s Walter H. Capps Center ...
Hemant Soren, chief minister of the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand, has urged the prime minister to include a separate Sarna tribal religion code in the forthcoming census. He reiterated the state ...
(The Conversation) — The American bison, or American buffalo as they are commonly called, were once close to extinction. Their numbers dropped from 30-60 million to around 500 because of overhunting ...
A group of tribal Christian leaders has urged politicians to ensure the recognition of traditional tribal religion, helping tribal people specify their faith in India’s upcoming national census, ...
Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. “Oak Flat is like Mount Sinai to us—our most sacred site where we connect with our ...
University of Amsterdam religion professor Van Der Toorn (Scribal Culture and the Making of the Hebrew Bible) meticulously surveys the 2,000-year evolution of the Israelite religion, which preceded ...