Lisa Sideris's guest appearances

Lisa Sideris

Cultures of Energy

Things Not Seen Podcast

Naked Humanity

In This Climate

Bron Taylor

Tupac Shakur

Abel James

Thomas Frank

Graham Harman

Mister Rogers

Kaitlin Curtice

Jon Sweeney

Daniel Hill

John Edward

James Martin

Eckhart Tolle

Barbara Brown Taylor

Toni Morrison

Nadia Bolz-Weber

OwlTail

Wonder

In this series, we ask, how can spiritual connection with our environment help us enter into right and restorative relationship with the earth, including human and nonhuman inhabitants? In this episode, we talk with Lisa Sideris about wonder as it relates with science, religion, Rachel Carson, and policy change. We also return to a discussion on the importance of religious and ethical approaches to environmental issues.

In this series, we ask, how can spiritual connection with our environment help us enter into right and restorative relationship with the earth, including human and nonhuman inhabitants? In this episode, we talk with Lisa Sideris about wonder as it relates with science, religion, Rachel Carson, and policy change. We also return to a discussion on the importance of religious and ethical approaches to environmental issues.

The power of wonder with Lisa Sideris

We talk with Indiana University professor Lisa Sideris about her recent book, Consecrating Science: Wonder, Knowledge, and the Natural World Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We talk with Indiana University professor Lisa Sideris about her recent book, Consecrating Science: Wonder, Knowledge, and the Natural World Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

#1905 - Rethinking Wonder: Lisa Sideris

What happens when you treat science like a religion? Stefani chats with Professor Lisa Sideris about our cultural infatuation with science and what happens when we become overly invested in it: religion. One significant by-product is science becomes a source of wonder--but Professor Sideris demonstrates how dangerous that can be not just for our spirituality but also for the future of animal life and the planet. Head over to stefaniruper.com/podcast for the shownotes or instructions on how to enter the book giveaway!

What happens when you treat science like a religion? Stefani chats with Professor Lisa Sideris about our cultural infatuation with science and what happens when we become overly invested in it: religion. One significant by-product is science becomes a source of wonder--but Professor Sideris demonstrates how dangerous that can be not just for our spirituality but also for the future of animal life and the planet. Head over to <a href="http://stefaniruper.com/podcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">stefaniruper.com/podcast</a> for the shownotes or instructions on how to enter the book giveaway!

5: Wonder in a Scientific World with Lisa Sideris

Cymene and Dominic announce their latest educational venture, the Chicago Climate Change &amp; Culture Institute (4CI) and ask y’all’s help in getting the word out —  https://summer.uchicago.edu/programs/chicago-climate-change-culture-institute-4ci — Then (10:48) joining us from the fashionable eastern time zone is the fabulous Lisa Sideris. We talk to her about her new book Consecrating Science: Wonder, Knowledge, and the Natural World (U California Press, 2017). Lisa explains how her earlier research on the neglect of Darwinism in religious environmental ethics set the stage for this project investigating those who put forward science as a kind of religion. We talk about the historical roots of “Epic Science,” its anthrocentric narratives, our soft spot for the charisma of Carl Sagan, and how scientism leverages wonder to devalue the natural world. Lisa explains how the narratives from these “new cosmologists” also devalue the humanities relative to the sciences and we discuss whether patriarchal monotheism also informs ideas like Gaian spirituality and Teilhard de Chardin’s “noosphere.” She connects new cosmological thinking also to the conception of the Anthropocene, especially the “good Anthropocene,” the Ecozoic and the idea of human-directed evolution. And, case in point, we talk about the Koch-sponsored Smithsonian Hall of Human Origins exhibition and its agenda to rewrite the story of climate change as a positive one for Homo Sapiens. That leads us to Lisa’s thoughts on Pope Francis, Rachel Carson and Biosphere 2. We end with Lisa’s spirited defense of the humanities. Listen on and please help us to get the word out about 4CI!

Cymene and Dominic announce their latest educational venture, the Chicago Climate Change &amp; Culture Institute (4CI) and ask y’all’s help in getting the word out — <a href="https://summer.uchicago.edu/programs/chicago-climate-change-culture-institute-4ci" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> https://summer.uchicago.edu/programs/chicago-climate-change-culture-institute-4ci</a> — Then (10:48) joining us from the fashionable eastern time zone is the fabulous Lisa Sideris. We talk to her about her new book Consecrating Science: Wonder, Knowledge, and the Natural World (U California Press, 2017). Lisa explains how her earlier research on the neglect of Darwinism in religious environmental ethics set the stage for this project investigating those who put forward science as a kind of religion. We talk about the historical roots of “Epic Science,” its anthrocentric narratives, our soft spot for the charisma of Carl Sagan, and how scientism leverages wonder to devalue the natural world. Lisa explains how the narratives from these “new cosmologists” also devalue the humanities relative to the sciences and we discuss whether patriarchal monotheism also informs ideas like Gaian spirituality and Teilhard de Chardin’s “noosphere.” She connects new cosmological thinking also to the conception of the Anthropocene, especially the “good Anthropocene,” the Ecozoic and the idea of human-directed evolution. And, case in point, we talk about the Koch-sponsored Smithsonian Hall of Human Origins exhibition and its agenda to rewrite the story of climate change as a positive one for Homo Sapiens. That leads us to Lisa’s thoughts on Pope Francis, Rachel Carson and Biosphere 2. We end with Lisa’s spirited defense of the humanities. Listen on and please help us to get the word out about 4CI!