John Allen Grim

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John Allen Grim (born October 7, 1946) is the co-founder and co-director of the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology, alongside his wife Mary Evelyn Tucker. He teaches at Yale University, where he holds appointments in the Yale School of the Environment, the Divinity School, and the Department of Religious Studies. He has also taught at Sarah Lawrence College and Bucknell University. [1] He specializes in Native American religions and has studied the Salish people of Washington State and the Crow/Apsaalooke people of Montana. [1] He has also undertaken field work with healing practitioners in East and Southeast Asia and with religious leaders in Vrindaban and New Delhi, India. [1]

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Grim teaches in the joint MA program in religion and ecology at Yale and offers courses in world religions and ecology and Native American and Indigenous traditions. He teaches hybrid/online classes at Yale as well as two massive open online course specializations: one specialization with three courses on "Journey of the Universe" [2] and "The Worldview of Thomas Berry" [3] and another with five courses on "Religions and Ecology", [4] plus a single course on "Christianity and Ecology". [5] [6]

Works

Grim is the author of The Shaman [7] [8] and the co-author of Ecology and Religion. [9] He has also edited and co-edited numerous volumes including Living Cosmology, [10] the Routledge Handbook of Religion and Ecology, [11] Worldviews and Ecology, [12] and Indigenous Traditions and Ecology, [13] among others. [1]

Collaborations with Thomas Berry

Grim studied world religions with Thomas Berry in graduate school and worked closely with him for more than 40 years. He co-edited several of his books including The Christian Future and the Fate of Earth [14] and Selected Writings on the Earth Community [15] Grim and his wife Mary Evelyn Tucker are managing trustees of the Thomas Berry Foundation. [16] In 2019, Tucker, Grim, and Andrew Angyal published Thomas Berry: A Biography. [17]

Forum on Religion and Ecology

Grim is co-founder and co-director of the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology. From 1995 to 1998 Grim and Tucker organized a series of ten conferences on World Religions and Ecology at the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard University. [18] They are the series editors for the ten volumes (distributed by Harvard University Press) that came out of the conferences. [19] At a culminating conference at the United Nations in 1998, they founded the Forum on Religion and Ecology. Speaking at that event were Tim Wirth, Tu Weiming, Maurice Strong, and Bill Moyers. [20]

Grim also frequently speaks and gives interviews on religion and ecology and issues of ecological importance, such as Laudato si' (the Papal Encyclical on the environment) [21] [22] [23] and Standing Rock/DAPL. [24]

Journey of the Universe

Grim is one of the executive producers of the Northern California Emmy Award-winning film, Journey of the Universe (2011). [25] This documentary aired on PBS for a number of years [26] and is part of a multimedia project that also includes a series of conversations with scientists and environmentalists on DVD and podcasts, [27] and a book written by Brian Thomas Swimme and Mary Evelyn Tucker.

American Teilhard Association

Since 1996, Grim has served as president of the American Teilhard Association. [1] The association is dedicated to the work and legacy of French paleontologist, philosopher, and Jesuit, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.

Education

Grim earned his B.A. from St. John's University (Minnesota) (1968), and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Fordham University (1975). [1]

Awards

Among the awards Grim has received are the Lifetime Achievement Award in religion and ecology, [28] the Interfaith Visionary Award in 2010, [29] the Chancellor's Medal/Joint and Common Future Award (University of Massachusetts, Boston) in 2013, [30] and the Passionist Award for promoting Thomas Berry's work in 2016. [31]

He was awarded honorary doctorates from California Institute of Integral Studies (2005) and St. John's University (Minnesota) (2011). [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "John Grim Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). environment.yale.edu. February 2020. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2023-01-25. Retrieved 4 October 2016.
  2. ↑ "Journey of the Universe: A Story for Our Times | Coursera". www.coursera.org. Retrieved 2023-01-26.
  3. ↑ Dennehy, Kevin (13 August 2014). "F&ES Launches First Online Courses in Religion and Ecology". Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. Retrieved 2 January 2017.
  4. ↑ "Religions and Ecology: Restoring the Earth Community | Coursera". www.coursera.org. Retrieved 2023-01-26.
  5. ↑ "Christianity & Ecology | Coursera". www.coursera.org. Retrieved 2023-01-26.
  6. ↑ "Yale / Coursera Online Courses". Forum on Religion and Ecology. Retrieved 2021-12-12.
  7. ↑ Grim, John (1983). Tha Shaman: Pattern of Religions Healing Among the Ojibway Indians. Norman, OK: Oklahoma University Press.
  8. ↑ Professional journal reviews of The Shaman include: Ethnohistory, vol. 32, no. 3, 1985; Studies in Religion, vol. 13, no. 3, 1984; New Mexico Historical Review, October 1988; Mid-America Folklore, Spring 1989; Minnesota History Quarterly, Summer 1989; American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 1987; AHP Perspective, March 1985; Sociological Analysis, 1985; Mentalities, 1984; BC Book, May 8, 1984; The Jerusalem Post, January 8, 1984. It was also presented at the Columbia University Seminar series on May 12, 1980.
  9. ↑ Grim and Tucker, John and Mary Evelyn (2014). Ecology and Religion. Washington D.C.: Island Press.
  10. ↑ Tucker and Grim, Mary Evelyn and John (2015). Living Cosmology: Christian Responses to Journey of the Universe. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books. Bibcode:2016lccr.book.....T.
  11. ↑ Jenkins, Tucker, and Grim, Willis, Mary Evelyn, and John (2016). Routledge Handbook of Religion and Ecology. New York: Routledge.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  12. ↑ Tucker and Grim, Mary Evelyn and John (1994). Worldviews and Ecology: Religion, Philosophy, and the Environment. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books.
  13. ↑ Grim, John, ed. (2001). Indigenous Traditions and Ecology. Cambridge, MA: Harvard CSWR.
  14. ↑ Grim, John; Tucker, Mary Evelyn, eds. (2009). The Christian Future and the Fate of Earth: Collected Essays of Thomas Berry. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books.
  15. ↑ Berry, Thomas (2014). Selected Writings on the Earth Community. Selected and with an introduction by Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books.
  16. ↑ "The Thomas Berry Foundation". thomasberry.org. Retrieved 6 September 2016.
  17. ↑ Tucker, Mary Evelyn, John Grim, and Andrew Angyal (2019). Thomas Berry: A Biography. Columbia University Press.
  18. ↑ "Religions of the World and Ecology: Archive Of Conference Materials". Forum on Religion and Ecology. Retrieved 4 October 2016.
  19. ↑ "Religions of the World and Ecology Book Series". Forum on Religion and Ecology. Retrieved 4 October 2016.
  20. ↑ "UN/AMNH Culminating Conferences". Forum on Religion and Ecology. Retrieved 4 October 2016.
  21. ↑ Bell, Matthew. "Pope Francis sounds the alarm on the environment and he wants everyone to listen". PRI's The World. Retrieved 2 January 2017.
  22. ↑ Robert, McMahon. "How to Read Pope Francis on the Environment". Council on Foreign Relations. Retrieved 2 January 2017.
  23. ↑ Manson, Jamie. "Panel contemplates why the papal encyclical on the environment will matter". National Catholic Reporter. Retrieved 2 January 2017.
  24. ↑ Brown, Timothy (30 November 2016). "John Grim on Standing Rock: 'This is Not Only About Water, It's All About Water'". Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. Retrieved 2 January 2017.
  25. ↑ "Principal Bios". Journey of the Universe. Retrieved 4 October 2016.
  26. ↑ "Journey of the Universe". PBS.org.
  27. ↑ "Conversations Overview". www.journeyoftheuniverse.org. Archived from the original on 2018-10-22. Retrieved 6 September 2016.
  28. ↑ "ISSRNC Announces 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award for Mary Evelyn Tucker & John Grim". International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture. April 24, 2019. Retrieved December 12, 2019.
  29. ↑ "Awards 2010". Temple of Understanding. Retrieved 4 October 2016.
  30. ↑ ""Chancellor Assesses Campus Environment During 2013 Convocation"". U Mass Boston News. Retrieved 4 October 2016.
  31. ↑ ""Care of the Earth and Climate Change" Conference and Award Ceremony". Journey of the Universe. Retrieved 4 October 2016.
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