Center for the Arts, Religion and Education (CARE)
Graduate Theological Union
Pacific School of Religion
1798 Scenic Road,
Berkeley,
California, 94709
800/999-0528
http://www.careartandreligion.us/
CARE's mission is to encourage and develop programs and scholarship in that bring together the arts and religion. The Keepers of Love, the outgrowth of the work at Love Cemetery, is a project of CARE. CARE's programs, faculty and their course offerings emphasize the dynamic, transformative role of the arts in theological education.
Dallas Freedman's Cemetery Memorial
Southwest corner of North Central Expressway and Lemmon Ave., Dallas, Texas
The Freedman's Cemetery, which dates back to 1869, was a vital part of Freedman's Town, a community of former slaves and their descendants. Desecrated from the early 1920s by various public projects, more than 1600 gravesites were discovered in 1986 during the widening of Central Expressway. The African American community and the preservationists joined forces to stop the destruction and to create a powerful memorial, the Freedman's Memorial Park. More than 1,000 burials were reinterred. The striking memorial marks the reconstitution of a sacred place and celebrates the contributions of African Americans to the City of Dallas.
Forum for Religion and Ecology
The Forum on Religion and Ecology
P.O. Box 280
Lewisburg,
PA 17837
www.environment.harvard.edu/religion
The environmental crisis, global in scope and local in impact, requires major changes in how we think about our world and its future. Multi-disciplinary efforts are needed to produce solutions to our interconnected environmental problems. The Forum on Religion and Ecology highlights the important roles that religions play in constructing moral frameworks for interacting with other people and the environment. The Forum invites academic, engaged discourse on the intersection of religious studies, science, and environmental policy.
Coordinated by John Grim and Mary Evelyn Tucker, the Forum on Religion and Ecology organized a series of ten conferences on "World Religions and Ecology," at the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School, beginning in 1996. Tucker and Grim edited the ten volume series from the conferences. The university's Center for the Environment hosts the Forum's website which provides a wealth of resources on Religion and Ecology.
The Forum's focus on Research, Education , and Outreach has resulted in articles, books, the World Religions and Ecology Series; conferences, presentations; networks of international scholars, print and video materials for schools, teachers workshops, interdisciplinary dialogues, and participation in policy and research summits. See Worldly Wonder: Religions Enter Their Ecological Phase , by Mary Evelyn Tucker.
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