2. Adam and Eve

• Lucas Cranach, 1526.
• Egocentric religious ethics: dominion over nature.
• Genesis 1: 28: "Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth and subdue it." .
• "God created man in his image; male and female created he them." (Godhead is male/female.).
• Simultaneous creation. 5th c. B.C.E.

3. The Creation

• Ludolphus of Saxony.
• Leven Jhesu Christi, 1503.
• Homocentric religious ethics: stewardship.
• Genesis 2. Garden of Eden story. 9th c. B.C.E.
• God inducts Adam and Eve into the enclosed, circular Garden of Eden.
• Four rivers flow out.

4. Creation of Adam

• G. B. Andreini
• L'Adamo, sacra rapresentatione, 1617.
• Genesis 2. Sequential creation.
• Adam created outside the garden
• Eve created later, inside the garden from Adam's rib.

5. Expulsion From Eden

• J.J. du Pré
• Heures à l'usage de Rome, 1488.
• Genesis 3. Expulsion.
• Serpent in background tempts Eve.
• Cherubim with flaming sword guards the Tree of Life.

6. Laboring in the Earth

• Speculum humanae salvationis, early 15th c.
• Consequences of the Fall: "man" must labor in the earth.
• Eve spinning.
• Adam with spade.

7. Garden of Eden

8. Last Judgment

• At the Last Judgment the faithful are reunited with God.
• Middle ages: people escape the earth to live in heaven.
• Protestantism: people remake the earth through labor.
• Francis Bacon. "Man can recover that right over nature that belongs to him by divine bequest."
• Dominion over creation can be regained through arts and science.

9. René Dubos

• Homocentric religious ethics: stewardship.
• Genesis 2
• Stewardship over nature and creation.
• God put man "into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it."
• Animals are helpmeets to man.

10. Charlene Spretnak

• Ecocentric religious ethics: earth-based spirituality.
• Spiritual feminists.
• The Politics of Women's Spirituality: Essays on the Rise of Spiritual Power Within the Feminist Movement, 1982.
• The Spiritual Dimension of Green Politics, 1986.

11. Gaia

• Charlene Spretnak.
• "Gaia is the ancient earth-mother who brought forth the world and the human race from 'the gaping void, Chaos.'

12. Isis

• Athanasius Kircher
• Oedipus Aegypticus, 1652.
• Isis shakes the sistrum (rattle) to awaken the powers of the earth.
• Stands in the Nile which yearly overflows its banks.
• Pail irrigates the earth.
• Egypt: Ge is earth god; Nut is sky goddess.

13. Maria Gimbutas

• The Goddesses and Gods of Old Europe, 6500-3500 B.C.E. (1982). 
• Myths and Cult Images.
• Female earth principles.
• Male sky god principles.

14. Old Europe

15. Pregnant Goddess

• 6000 B.C.E. Thessaly
• 4500 B.C.E.

16. Maria Gimbutas

• Bird goddess.
• Woman-bird hybrids.
• Bird masks.
• Human-animal fusions.
• Fish, snakes, butterflies, bees.

17. Eleanor Gadon

• The Once & Future Goddess, 1989.
• "A Sweeping Visual Chronicle of the Sacred Female and Her Reemergence in the Cultural Mythology of Our Time."

18. Goddess of Willendorf, Austria, 30,000 B.C.E.

• Susan Mayberry as earth mother on the day after the nuclear holocaust, 1985 performance.

19. Artemis, 1st Century A.D.

• Louise Bourgeois as Artemis, "A Banquet/Fashion Show of Body Parts," 1985 performance.

20. Pamela Berger

• The Goddess Obscured: The Transformation of the Grain Protectress from Goddess to Saint (1985).
• Mary replaces Demeter as grain protectress.

21. John Cobb

• Ecocentric religious ethics: Process philosophy.
• Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality (1929).
• Process theology.
• Postmodern ecological worldview.
• Process is primary.
• Context dependence.
• Intrinsic value of all life.

22. Riane Eisler

• Partnership ethics.
The Chalice and the Blade (1988).
• Dominator societies rank one sex over the other: the blade.
• Partnership societies link the sexes: the chalice.
• Gylany: gyne (woman) + andros (man), linked by "l" from lyein (to resolve).

23. White Earth Recovery Project

• Multicultural religious ethics: American Indian land wisdom.
• Winona LaDuke, 2005. Recovering the Sacred.
• Paula Gunn Allen, The Sacred Hoop, 1984; Spider Woman's Granddaughters, 1989.
• Beverly Hungry Wolf, The Ways of My Grandmothers, 1980.

24. Tom Hayden

• Multicultural religious ethics.
• The Lost Gospel of the Earth: A Call for Renewing Nature, Spirit, & Politics (1996).
• "Reclaiming the Ecological Wisdom of Christianity, Judaism, Buddism, and Native Traditions for the Next Century."

25. World Religions and Ecology

• Yale University, Forum on Religion and Ecology.
• Harvard Divinity School, Center for the Study of World Religions.
• Religions of the World and Ecology. Series edited by Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim.

26. Religion, Nature, and Culture

• University of Florida, Gainesville.
• International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture.
• How religions can help solve environmental problems such as climate change.
• Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature, edited by Bron Taylor.
• Journal: Religion, Nature, and Culture.