Dr. Lucas Johnston’s interdisciplinary educational background includes degrees in Religion and Nature (PhD), Environmental Ethics (Graduate Certificate), Theology (MA), and Psychology (BA). His research focuses on the relationships between biocultural evolution and religion, with particular attention to environmental social movements and cross-cultural political dialog related to ideas about nature.
Ph.D., University of Florida (Religion and Nature)
Graduate Certificate, University of Georgia (Environmental Ethics)
M.A., Graduate Theological Union (Ethics and Social Policy)
B.A., Wake Forest University (Psychology)
Books and Special Issues
Religion and Sustainability: Social Movements and the Politics of the Environment (Equinox/Acumen Press)
Grounding Education in Environmental Humanities: Exploring Place-Based Pedagogies in the South (co-edited with Dave Aftandilian)
Higher Education for Sustainability: Cases, Challenges and Opportunities from Across the Curriculum (ed.) (Routledge)
Science and Religion: One Planet, Many Possibilities (co-ed. with Whitney Bauman) (Routledge)
(Co-Editor with Robert Sands) The Science of God: Natural Origins of Religion in an Evolutionary Perspective: A Special Issue of the Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, Vol. 3, No. 4 (January 2010).
- FYS 100 Rock Music, Religion, and Social Change
- REL 101 Introduction to Religion
- REL 109Introduction to Buddhism
- REL 111 Introduction to First People’s Traditions
- REL 200 Approaches to Religion
- REL 240/341/640 Religion and Ecology
- ENV 201 Environmental Issues
- REL 244 Religion, Terrorism, and Violence
- REL 288/709 Field Placement in Religion and Public Engagement
- REL 307/607 Magic, Science and Religion
- REL 390/690 Poet Warrior: Writing Workshop (with Joy Harjo)
- ENV 301 Writing Resistance: Contemplative Approaches to Writing (with Terry Tempest Williams)
- ENV 301 Networks of Relationships between Humans and Trees (with David Haskell)
- ENV 301 Writing Beyond Words (with Carl Safina)
- ENV 305 Environmental Ethics
- REL 332 Religion and Public Engagement
- REL 390/690 Environmental Ethics
- ENV 390 Energy Policy and Sustainability
- ENV 391 Sustainability & Sustainable Development
- REL 390/HNR 265/ENG 361 Radical Ecologies
- REL 781 Science and Religion
- REL 781 Religion, Terrorism, and Violence
- SUS 701 Global Human Systems