Montréal-area performances have seen artists explore our human connections to light and ecological forces, and reflect on grief related to climate change.
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Urbanisation in India is causing Adivasi communities to lose connections to ancestral lands – and to traditional knowledge and belief systems. Urban Hinduisation plays a big role in this.
In the last Census, 33,148 Australians identified with a nature religion, or Paganism. Who are the Pagans – and what do they do and believe?
A Steller’s sea eagle, native to the Asian Arctic, has traveled across North America since 2021. A scholar questions whether the bird is lost – and how well humans really understand animals’ actions.
Animism describes religions in which humans are connected to the landscape around them but do not dominate it.
Each summer, during the obon festival, apanese people clean altars and family graves to welcome back their ancestors. These contemporary traditions are rooted in ancient rituals.
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Emma MacLachlan Metcalf Chair of Humanities, Boston University; University of Cambridge
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