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# Counterpoint: Navigating Knowledge

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- [Religion, Animals, and Academia](https://counterpointknowledge.org/religion-animals-and-academia/) - Religion, Animals, and Academia By Laura Hobgood As a PhD student in 1994 I thought nobody else found questions of religion and nature both fascinating and incredibly important. Luckily, Belden Lane emerged as my dissertation adviser. He contributed an early voice to religion and nature in North America. Then I (not so randomly) ran into
- [The Life-Giving Forests: Indigenous Peoples, Myths, and Fragments](https://counterpointknowledge.org/the-life-giving-forests-indigenous-peoples-myths-and-fragments/) - The Life-Giving Forests: Indigenous Peoples, Myths, and Fragments By Petru Moldovan The narratives and warnings issued by scientists about the high degrees of how and why the human and non-human environment are in a profound state of fragmentation are not convincing enough for the governing bodies of modern and postmodern societies. The academic ecosystem advances
- [Religion, Ritual, and Ecology](https://counterpointknowledge.org/religion-ritual-and-ecology/) - Religion, Ritual, and Ecology By Sarah M. Pike I served as ISSRNC’s President from 2015-2018 and was fortunate to take the position after Bron Taylor’s, Kocku von Stuckrad’s, and Laura Hobgood’s leadership had already turned the society into a vibrant community of scholars. During and before my presidency I worked on many of our conferences
- [Geschichte der westlichen Astrologie](https://counterpointknowledge.org/geschichte-der-westlichen-astrologie/) - Geschichte der westlichen Astrologie: Von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart Kocku von Stuckrad Vollständig überarbeitete Neuausgabe MITWELTVERLAG 304 Seiten, März 2026 ISBN (paperback): 978-3-00-084043-2 | €29.95 ISBN (eBook): 978-3-00-086694-4 | €29.95 In dieser umfassenden Geschichte der Astrologie beschreibt Kocku von Stuckrad, wie die Sternkunde in Mesopotamien entstanden ist, welche Bedeutung sie im Alten Ägypten hatte
- [Past President Future Tense](https://counterpointknowledge.org/past-president-future-tense/) - Past President Future Tense By Evan Berry Over the past decade, but especially since the beginning of Trump’s second term, the US federal government has steadily intensified its assault on institutions of higher education, on climate science, on student activist organizations, on student loan forgiveness programs, and on programs of study that focus on social
- [The Planetary Costs of Nationalism](https://counterpointknowledge.org/the-planetary-costs-of-nationalism/) - The Planetary Costs of Nationalism By Whitney A. Bauman Invisible things matter. I’m not only talking about whatever we might call spirits, souls, or divinities, but also about reason, ideas, numbers, and language. These invisible things all materialize in the world, co-constructing our worlds in various ways. The same can be said of the “imagined
- [Companions and Partners in a More-than-human World](https://counterpointknowledge.org/companions-and-partners-in-a-more-than-human-world/) - Companions and Partners in a More-than-human World: A Counterpoint: Navigating Knowledge Research Colloquium on 30 March 2026 In the forested landscapes of Tripura, a small region in Northeast India, the hornbill occupies a significant position. Since 2020, the state government sponsors a two-day Hornbill festival (https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/travel/destinations/tripura-to-host-hornbill-like-festival-from-february-8/articleshow/73868097.cms.) The festival, which has been adopted from the neighboring
- [The Origins of the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture and its Journal](https://counterpointknowledge.org/the-origins-of-the-international-society-for-the-study-of-religion-nature-and-culture-and-its-journal/) - The Origins of the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture and its Journal By Bron Taylor The idea to create the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture began in conversations I had with Sarah McFarland Taylor and Rebecca Gould in the late 1990s, as we lamented the
- [Queer Muslims: Spiritual Resistance to Current of Islamic Conservatism in Indonesia](https://counterpointknowledge.org/queer-muslims-spiritual-resistance-to-current-of-islamic-conservatism-in-indonesia/) - Queer Muslims: Spiritual Resistance to Current of Islamic Conservatism in Indonesia By Muhammad Harkim Novridho In recent years, tensions between queer identity and religion in Indonesia have intensified amid the rise of a type of conservatism that rejects gender diversity. Queer groups are often seen as non-religious and excluded from legitimate spiritual spaces. As a
- [“J” is for Nothing: Oppenheimer’s, Nolan’s, and My Enchantments](https://counterpointknowledge.org/j-is-for-nothing-oppenheimers-nolans-and-my-enchantments/) - “J” is for Nothing: Oppenheimer’s, Nolan’s, and My Enchantments By Lisa H. Sideris In the Land of Enchantment My interest in J. Robert Oppenheimer began in earnest around 1990 when, as a graduate student in History and Philosophy of Science, I enrolled in a seminar intriguingly titled “Big Science.” Historians commonly trace the advent of
- [Relational Ecology and Climate Justice: The Bayan and Environmental Democracy](https://counterpointknowledge.org/relational-ecology-and-climate-justice-the-bayan-and-environmental-democracy/) - Relational Ecology and Climate Justice: The Bayan and Environmental Democracy By Arfi Hidayat Indigenous animisms in the Bayan region provide a great example of relational ethic. This ethic matches up with Kyle Whyte's understanding of how Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) might be used to address issues of climate change. First, TEK must be understood as
- [Life Cairns: Embracing Grief, Building Hope](https://counterpointknowledge.org/life-cairns-embracing-grief-building-hope/) - Life Cairns: Embracing Grief, Building Hope By Kocku von Stuckrad We are living in a time of profound transformation. The powers east and west of the Atlantic—which, as Edouard Glissant pointed out, is the site of the largest unmarked grave in history—are losing their influence. Past privileges are being challenged, but the system won’t break
- [Gastrocolonialism and the Unmaking of Worlds](https://counterpointknowledge.org/gastrocolonialism-and-the-unmaking-of-worlds/) - Gastrocolonialism and the Unmaking of Worlds By Marsekal Gimbo The relentless displacement of local food systems in Eastern Indonesia by standardized rice and ultra-processed foods (UPFs) is often narrated as a simple story of dietary change, a natural byproduct of modernization and national integration. However, viewed through the theoretical lens of Arturo Escobar’s Designs for
- [Ethics Without Transcendence: Criteria for Planetary Becoming](https://counterpointknowledge.org/ethics-without-transcendence-criteria-for-planetary-becoming/) - Ethics Without Transcendence: Criteria for Planetary Becoming By Whitney A. Bauman If we are going to have a radically immanent understanding of reality such as found in forms of new materialisms, among many other animist or pantheist ways of thinking, then we ought to begin to articulate how we navigate what counts as “better” or
- [A Case for Ignorance](https://counterpointknowledge.org/a-case-for-ignorance/) - A Case for Ignorance By Annika Kraft Ignorance leads a shadowy existence in the modern cultural and scientific history of Europe and the West, which is built on opposites: culture–nature, science–religion, ratio–emotion, knowledge–ignorance. Ignorance tends to be seen as a state that can be overcome and is all too often confused with incompetence in a
- [Cooking up Change: A Hundred Years of World Animal Day](https://counterpointknowledge.org/cooking-up-change-a-hundred-years-of-world-animal-day/) - Cooking up Change: A Hundred Years of World Animal Day By Teya Brooks Pribac Nonhuman animals have always preoccupied the human mind, some animal species—and some human minds—more than others. Communities throughout history have opted to leave animals off the menu. At the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century the
- [A Watersheds Moment](https://counterpointknowledge.org/a-watersheds-moment/) - A Watersheds Moment By Gary Slater The phrase “watershed moment” is used so commonly that it’s easy to forget how, if at all, actual watersheds come into it. If the metaphorical fit of watersheds with moments works well enough that the phrase has successfully become a cliché, there are nevertheless some awkward elements that emerge
- [Porous Boundaries and Borders of Entangled Bodies: A Counterpoint Conversation](https://counterpointknowledge.org/porous-boundaries-and-borders-of-entangled-bodies-a-counterpoint-conversation/) - Porous Boundaries and Borders of Entangled Bodies A Counterpoint Conversation This year, Counterpoint is joining the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture conference at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The conference is devoted to the topic "Crossing Borders, Transgressing Boundaries: Religion, Migration, and Climate Change." (see the full program here).
- [Doggerland Entanglements](https://counterpointknowledge.org/doggerland-entanglements/) - Doggerland Entanglements By Kocku von Stuckrad Imagine that the land between Great Britain, Denmark, Germany, and the Netherlands was not covered by water. Instead, it consisted of a landscape rich in plant, animal, and fungi life with hills and rivers, making it an ideal habitat for hunter-gatherer-fisher communities (human and nonhuman). The waters of the
- [Inside Out / Outside In: Returning our Bodies to the Commons](https://counterpointknowledge.org/inside-out-outside-in-returning-our-bodies-to-the-commons/) - Inside Out / Outside In: Returning our Bodies to the Commons By Whitney A. Bauman Often times the “work” of overcoming what Bruno Latour called “the great divide” between humans and the rest of the natural world is focused on externally relating to the rest of the natural world of which we are a part.
- [Bridging the Human and More-than-human World](https://counterpointknowledge.org/bridging-the-human-and-more-than-human-world/) - Bridging the Human and More-than-human World A Counterpoint: Navigating Knowledge Research Colloquium Living root bridges are among the biggest tourist attractions in the Indian state of Meghalaya. The indigenous Khasi and Jaintia communities build these bridges together with the aerial roots of the Ficus elastica tree. They are essential to the daily life of communities.
- [Plants, Art, and Spirituality](https://counterpointknowledge.org/plants-art-and-spirituality/) - Plants, Art, and Spirituality By Sara Michieletto In front of my window, as I write, I see a man hanging by ropes from a tree. The tree is an American oak tree that I observe every day, throughout the seasons. The centuries-old oak stands in my neighbors’ garden, and I have grown very fond of
- [The Arduous Journey of Staying Home](https://counterpointknowledge.org/the-arduous-journey-of-staying-home/) - The Arduous Journey of Staying Home By Jan Millsapps Relatively few humans consider themselves spacefarers. And yet we live on a spaceship spinning daily on its axis at about a thousand mph (1600 kph), slinging itself around the Sun at 67,000 mph (107,000 kph), and hurtling, with the rest of our solar system, through the
- [“Don’t Look Up” in 2025: Predictive Precisions and Ongoing Omissions](https://counterpointknowledge.org/dont-look-up-in-2025-predictive-precisions-and-ongoing-omissions/) - “Don’t Look Up” in 2025: Predictive Precisions and Ongoing Omissions By Christiana Zenner Yule: “I don’t know, I’m starting to think that all this ‘end of the world’ stuff is bullshit.” Kate Dibiasky: “It’s not. It’s definitely happening. I’ve seen it.” –Don’t Look Up (2021) “I’m curious to hear what it’s been like for you in
- [We Should All Learn kōkua and kāko‘o](https://counterpointknowledge.org/we-should-all-learn-kokua-and-kakoo/) - We Should All Learn kōkua and kāko‘o By Lina Aschenbrenner On Wednesday, 9 August 2023, Hawai‘i wakes up to devastating videos of Lahaina going up in flames and images of complete annihilation—houses, cars, and people—from uncontrollable flames driven by strong winds on dry land. The power and phone network is down, making it impossible to
- [Fragile Toxic Masculine Energy](https://counterpointknowledge.org/fragile-toxic-masculine-energy/) - Fragile Toxic Masculine Energy By Lina Aschenbrenner About a month ago, Mark Zuckerberg sparked extensive critical discussion in multiple media spaces, when he told podcaster Joe Rogan that “corporate culture had swung to being that somewhat more neutered thing” that lacks “masculine energy.” Unsurprisingly, my first thought was: this deserves a blog post. Now, that
- [The Truth Requires a Little Shame and Guilt](https://counterpointknowledge.org/the-truth-requires-a-little-shame-and-guilt/) - The Truth Requires a Little Shame and Guilt By Susanne Karr What kind of person do I want to be? This question serves as a compass for personal growth, guiding the ever-unfolding journey of self-discovery and transformation. When attention is given to what truly matters, the values that shape one’s path become clear—yet they remain
- [Facing the Fall](https://counterpointknowledge.org/facing-the-fall/) - Facing the Fall By Whitney A. Bauman “Burn it all down,” was the recent response of a friend when we were talking about the 2024 US election, the conflicts in Israel-Palestine, the rise of nationalisms everywhere, and the lack of governments around the world to respond adequately to global climate change. Though I argued back
- [The Power of EMPATHY and the Inspirational Moment](https://counterpointknowledge.org/the-power-of-empathy-and-the-inspirational-moment/) - The Power of EMPATHY and the Inspirational Moment By David R. Hawkins When recording his revolutionary score for the film Ascenseur pour l'échafaud, Miles Davis immersed himself so completely in the characters’ lives that he ‘became’ the person on the screen. Recording live and without written notes, he let the powerful imagery guide his improvisation.
- [The Misery that Will Come: Notes on the 2024 US Election](https://counterpointknowledge.org/the-misery-that-will-come-notes-on-the-2024-us-election/) - The Misery that Will Come: Notes on the 2024 US Election By Marcia Pally When you strike a tuning fork, for a moment you hear not only the odd A-note designed for musical instruments but also an atmospheric suspension. The air’s sub-atomic particles, hovering. That was election day 2024, a moment of suspension. And then
- [When Does an Individual Human Life Begin? Learning Science from Scientists](https://counterpointknowledge.org/when-does-an-individual-human-life-begin-learning-science-from-scientists/) - When Does an Individual Human Life Begin? Learning Science from Scientists By Scott F. Gilbert When is a science an ethnoscience? When can we say that the observations of nature are being proscribed by the religious framework of the culture? Actually, in the United States, embryology is in danger of becoming an ethnoscience, where religious
- [Introducing “Mitwelt” Ethics](https://counterpointknowledge.org/introducing-mitwelt-ethics/) - Introducing “Mitwelt” Ethics By Kocku von Stuckrad We’re in the midst of a planetary transformation that needs new ideas and new languages for building healthier relationships between humans and the nonhuman worlds. In recent years, a new way of thinking has taken hold in the sciences and the arts that challenges the primacy of human beings.
- [Erotic Ecology: Ecosexuals and F#$% for Forest](https://counterpointknowledge.org/erotic-ecology-ecosexuals-and-f-for-forest/) - Erotic Ecology: Ecosexuals and F#$% for Forest By Whitney A. Bauman One of the ideas behind queer studies is that heteronormativity is an essential part of what keeps us locked into hierarchies of oppression, at the base of which is human exceptionalism. Humans, that is, are somehow different from the rest of the natural world.
- [The Climate Movement Has Named Its Enemy. Religious Traditions Can Help](https://counterpointknowledge.org/the-climate-movement-has-named-its-enemy-religious-traditions-can-help/) - The Climate Movement Has Named Its Enemy. Religious Traditions Can Help By Kevin J. O’Brien In May, anonymous attendees reported on a meeting at the Mar-a-Lago Club between Donald Trump and some of the U.S.’s top oil executives. The former president apparently asked the executives to raise $1 billion for his re-election, telling them it
- [“The Journey of Pachamama” – Dark Green Christianity in West Germany During the 1980s](https://counterpointknowledge.org/the-journey-of-pachamama-dark-green-christianity-in-west-germany-during-the-1980s/) - “The Journey of Pachamama” – Dark Green Christianity in West Germany During the 1980s By Maria Schubert and Simon Wiesgickl In 1989, the German theologian Bärbel von Wartenberg-Potter wrote a small book with the title “The Journey of Pachamama.” In her book, she shared her insights from her encounters with the spiritual traditions of the
- [Narrative Warfare and the Noosphere in Steve Bannon’s Populist Revolt](https://counterpointknowledge.org/narrative-warfare-and-the-noosphere-in-steve-bannons-populist-revolt/) - Narrative Warfare and the Noosphere in Steve Bannon’s Populist Revolt By Boris Shoshitaishvili and Lisa H. Sideris On July 1, the Supreme Court handed down a ruling that granted Donald Trump considerable immunity from prosecution for his role in the January 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol attack. Rightwing populist victories in Europe flooded the news on
- [The Bodywork of Social Transformation](https://counterpointknowledge.org/the-bodywork-of-social-transformation/) - The Bodywork of Social Transformation By Anna Mercedes In a 2007 article, philosopher Maria Lugones quietly made a very large claim. She articulated the ways that modern colonialism violently rewrote sex and gender norms with what she called the “Colonial/Modern Gender System.” Building from other models of coloniality that theorized how modern colonialism built conceptual
- [The Ecofascist Potentials of Dark Green Religion?](https://counterpointknowledge.org/the-ecofascist-potentials-of-dark-green-religion/) - The Ecofascist Potentials of Dark Green Religion? By Nathaniel J. P. Barron As Bron Taylor points out on this blog, given the increasing social and political influence of dark green religion, one central aim of a recent conference in Mainz was to question its future prospects. This presented an opportunity for scholars to better explore
- [Belonging to the World](https://counterpointknowledge.org/belonging-to-the-world/) - Belonging to the World By John Thatamanil Countless are the passages in Christian scripture which suggest that Christians ought not to regard this world as their true home. Cultivating a sense of belonging to the world has almost never been an explicit goal of classical Christian teaching. Christians are not alone in this regard. A
- [Dark Green Religion in Europe: Perilous Specter or Promising Movement?](https://counterpointknowledge.org/dark-green-religion-in-europe-perilous-specter-or-promising-movement/) - Dark Green Religion in Europe: Perilous Specter or Promising Movement? By Bron Taylor In April 2024 a conference titled Dark Green Religion in Europe: History & Impacts; Dangers & Prospects took place at the Leibniz-Institute of European History in Mainz, Germany. For three days scholars wrestled with the argument and evidence I advanced in Dark
- [A Postcolonial Romanticism?](https://counterpointknowledge.org/a-postcolonial-romanticism/) - A Postcolonial Romanticism? By Whitney A. Bauman I was recently a participant at a symposium on the 19th-century “German Darwin,” Ernst Haeckel. For readers who don’t know who Haeckel is, think of a 19th-century EO Wilson mixed with some Richard Dawkins. He was the popularizer of evolutionary theory in Europe, India, the United States, and
- [Reinventing Creativity](https://counterpointknowledge.org/reinventing-creativity/) - Reinventing Creativity By Imran Khan My visit to Berlinale (and the European Film Market: EFM), one of Europe’s ‘big three’ film festivals, was full of the requisite drama. Not just because the Berlin Minister of Culture decided she needed to clarify that she was only clapping for the Israeli part of the the Israeli/Palestiinan award
- [Why We Need Greener Cities](https://counterpointknowledge.org/why-we-need-greener-cities/) - Why We Need Greener Cities By Dorin David If someone offers you a glass of dirty water, obviously you don’t drink it. Maybe after walking thirsty in a dessert for a couple of days, but even then you’d probably not drink it, you’d only get your lips wet. So why don’t we pay the same
- [Kritik jenseits polarisierender Selbstvergewisserung: Hamas, Israel und die deutsche Diskussionskultur](https://counterpointknowledge.org/kritik-jenseits-polarisierender-selbstvergewisserung-hamas-israel-und-die-deutsche-diskussionskultur/) - Kritik jenseits polarisierender Selbstvergewisserung: Hamas, Israel und die deutsche Diskussionskultur Von Markus Dreßler —For the English version of this blog post, please click here— Der Terrorangriff der Hamas vom 7. Oktober des letzten Jahres auf ein Musikfestival und jüdische Dörfer nahe der Grenze Gazas sowie die sich anschließende und andauernde Offensive Israels bewegen die deutsche
- [Critical Dialogues or Self-Assured Monologues: Hamas, Israel, and the German Debate](https://counterpointknowledge.org/critical-dialogues-or-self-assured-monologues-hamas-israel-and-the-german-debate/) - Critical Dialogues or Self-Assured Monologues: Hamas, Israel, and the German Debate By Markus Dressler —For a German version of this blog post, please click here— The Hamas terrorist attack on a music festival and Jewish villages near the Gaza border on October 7 last year and Israel’s subsequent and ongoing war on Hamas and Gaza
- [The Hypnotic Power of Animals](https://counterpointknowledge.org/the-hypnotic-power-of-animals/) - The Hypnotic Power of Animals By Susanne Karr Animals spark our imagination. This is reflected in the integration of so-called “power animals” in trance journeys, which are applied in various ways in personality development and hypnosis. In my work as a hypnosis coach, I integrate this wonderful tool frequently. The idea and practice of meeting
- [A Monarch Jeremiad](https://counterpointknowledge.org/a-monarch-jeremiad/) - A Monarch Jeremiad By Lisa H. Sideris “Most of all, I shall remember the monarchs.” —Rachel Carson, letter to Dorothy Freeman, September 10, 1963 In the summer of 2021, my family bid farewell to our longtime home in Indiana. We gathered clothing and provisions sufficient to last us several days on the road, loaded up
- [Social Fascia Keeps the Score](https://counterpointknowledge.org/social-fascia-keeps-the-score/) - Social Fascia Keeps the Score By Anna Mercedes Fascia is “the band of thin, fibrous connective tissue that wraps around and supports every structure in your body” (Cleveland Clinic). My favorite kind of massage is myofascial massage. Releasing tension in the fascia can open up amazing mobility in my body. I recover long forgotten agility.
- [Toward a Harmonious Coexistence between Plants and Cities](https://counterpointknowledge.org/toward-a-harmonious-coexistence-between-plants-and-cities/) - Toward a Harmonious Coexistence between Plants and Cities By Sara Michieletto Are we as humans feeling happy with the places we inhabit? Do the locations where we put down roots fill us with peace and beauty? Would it be a good idea to root our cities with a special emphasis on the unexpected guests? Starting
- [Shelter, Culture, and the Good Waves to Catch](https://counterpointknowledge.org/shelter-culture-and-the-good-waves-to-catch/) - Shelter, Culture, and the Good Waves to Catch By Teya Brooks Pribac Two days ago I found myself on the road out west, into farming country. I was transporting six cats to their new home. It was pouring rain; at times it felt like we were surfing. Our wide-wheeled Gunnel, so named for her Swedish
- [A Call for Conversations](https://counterpointknowledge.org/a-call-for-conversations/) - A Call for Conversations By Whitney A. Bauman and Kocku von Stuckrad This new year emerges out of a planetary context that is facing many entangled and wicked problems. We continue to see the effects of increasing global temperatures, including more extreme weather events, geological events, and social and psychological events. The number of so-called
- [Eroding Democracy](https://counterpointknowledge.org/eroding-democracy/) - Eroding Democracy By Whitney A. Bauman In the state of Florida, we have what is called “the sunshine law.” This law was initially meant to curtail corruption at the state level government. As a state employee at Florida International University, for instance, under these laws my salary and all salaries at the university are posted
- [Change Comes from the Arts](https://counterpointknowledge.org/change-comes-from-the-arts/) - Change Comes from the Arts By Kocku von Stuckrad The relational turn is in full swing. More and more people realize that thinking in strict categories, or even binaries, lies at the roots of the planetary crisis we’re finding ourselves in. It is particularly the European heritage of toxic binaries of nature–culture, human–nonhuman, and mind–body
- [Explanations are Not Justifications: On the Need for Careful Deliberation](https://counterpointknowledge.org/explanations-are-not-justifications-on-the-need-for-careful-deliberation/) - Explanations are Not Justifications: On the Need for Careful Deliberation By John Thatamanil . To explain is not to justify. In recent conversations about the grievous situation now unfolding in Israel/Palestine, this distinction is erased or even ignored, much to the detriment of clear judgment and effective action. When analysts begin to suggest that Hamas’s
- [Esotericism and Indigenous Knowledge](https://counterpointknowledge.org/esotericism-and-indigenous-knowledge/) - Esotericism and Indigenous Knowledge By Wolfgang-Andreas Schultz Reflective natural scientists have known it for a long time: “. . . the existing scientific concepts each fit only a very limited part of reality, and the other part, which is not yet understood, remains infinite” (Werner Heisenberg; German quote from Bewusstseinswissenschaften, page 62). What happens in
- [Shallow Pluralism and Indigenous Communities in Indonesia](https://counterpointknowledge.org/shallow-pluralism-and-indigenous-communities-in-indonesia/) - Shallow Pluralism and Indigenous Communities in Indonesia By Jear Nenohai Since the passing of Indonesia’s Minister of Education and Culture Regulation no. 27 of 2016, concerning “Education Services for Belief in God Almighty in Education Units,” indigenous communities and adherents to (or community local beliefs and practices not understood as religion) have been subject to this
- [Religious Naturalism, Emergence, and Science: A Counterpoint Conversation](https://counterpointknowledge.org/religious-naturalism-emergence-and-science-a-counterpoint-conversation/) - Religious Naturalism, Emergence, and Science: A Counterpoint Conversation Conversation Partners: Ursula Goodenough and Terrence Deacon Biologist Ursula Goodenough published the first edition of The Sacred Depths of Nature in 1998. The second edition, published in 2023 by Oxford University Press, is extensively revised to incorporate the many changes in science, culture, and planetary perspectives that
- [The Strangeness of the Planetary Future](https://counterpointknowledge.org/the-strangeness-of-the-planetary-future/) - The Strangeness of the Planetary Future By Whitney A. Bauman Wicked problems call for puzzling solutions. Wicked, here, is of course not the slang skater/surfer/stoner complement when something is amazing. Rather, it is a technical term that identifies what the nature of problems that result from the complex situations, and in this context I mean
- [Divide and Rule: How the Growing Rift between Peace, Climate, and Social Justice Movements Is Cementing a Ruinous Status Quo](https://counterpointknowledge.org/divide-and-rule-how-the-growing-rift-between-peace-climate-and-social-justice-movements-is-cementing-a-ruinous-status-quo/) - Divide and Rule: How the Growing Rift between Peace, Climate, and Social Justice Movements Is Cementing a Ruinous Status Quo By Fabian Scheidler Environmental and peace movements are profoundly divided in many countries today. The Covid crisis and the Ukraine war have further deepened these divisions. Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, many Green parties,
- [Celebrating Five Years of Counterpoint: Navigating Knowledge](https://counterpointknowledge.org/celebrating-five-years-of-counterpoint-navigating-knowledge/) - Celebrating Five Years of Counterpoint: Navigating Knowledge By Whitney A. Bauman and Kocku von Stuckrad If we want to address the major challenges of the 21st century—first and foremost climate disasters, human and other-than-human interdependencies on a global scale, as well as issues of social justice—concerted action is needed to bring the sciences, the arts,
- [Nature’s Symphonic Beauty: Towards a New Paradigm](https://counterpointknowledge.org/natures-symphonic-beauty-towards-a-new-paradigm/) - Nature’s Symphonic Beauty: Towards a New Paradigm By Sara Michieletto Art has the power to drive human progress by helping us think beyond our limitations and obstacles. Its power is needed more than ever, as our world is faced with unprecedented global health and environmental crisis. The art world can, and should, play a pivotal
- [The Sacred Depths of Nature: 25 Years Later](https://counterpointknowledge.org/the-sacred-depths-of-nature-25-years-later/) - The Sacred Depths of Nature: 25 Years Later By Ursula Goodenough I wrote the first edition of The Sacred Depths of Nature during a 3-month marathon in the spring of 1997, weaving together a lifetime of science-based understandings as a biology researcher/teacher with newly acquired understandings of spiritual perspectives, histories, and languages, where a key
- [Discussing Esotericism and Spirituality in Germany](https://counterpointknowledge.org/discussing-esotericism-and-spirituality-in-germany/) - Discussing Esotericism and Spirituality in Germany By Kocku von Stuckrad [For the German version of this blog post, click here | Zur deutschen Version dieses Textes geht es hier entlang] Today, the German public-service television broadcaster ZDF launched another episode of the show “13 Fragen” (“13 Questions”). This is a debate format in which two
- [Esoterik und Spiritualität in Deutschland – eine schwierige Diskussion](https://counterpointknowledge.org/esoterik-und-spiritualitat-in-deutschland-eine-schwierige-diskussion/) - Esoterik und Spiritualität in Deutschland – eine schwierige Diskussion Von Kocku von Stuckrad [ Zur englischen Version dieses Textes geht es hier entlang | For the English version of this blog post, click here] Heute wurde eine weitere Folge der ZDF-Sendung „13 Fragen“ ausgestrahlt, ein Debattenformat, in dem zwei Gruppen mit drei Personen, positioniert auf
- [The Delusion that Only Individuals are Real](https://counterpointknowledge.org/the-delusion-that-only-individuals-are-real/) - The Delusion that Only Individuals are Real By John Thatamanil Am I responsible for America’s racist past, even though I myself immigrated to the US from India when I was just eight years old? My parents had arrived two years before. What do my family and I owe to the descendants of those whom
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- [Getting Out of and Into the Common Good](https://counterpointknowledge.org/getting-out-of-and-into-the-common-good/) - Getting Out of and Into the Common Good By Marcia Pally I’m writing this blog just on returning from a conference hosted by the Thomist Center in New York. The center aims at scholarly research on the work of Thomas Aquinas, perhaps the greatest of medieval Catholic thinkers, and its application to our circumstances today—a
- [The Lure of the Separate: Reflections on Christianity, Nationalism, and Empire](https://counterpointknowledge.org/the-lure-of-the-separate-reflections-on-christianity-nationalism-and-empire/) - The Lure of the Separate: Reflections on Christianity, Nationalism, and Empire By Retief Müller I grew up in South Africa in late apartheid. Now, I am a church historian and curious about how Christianity and themes of national or ethnic identity tended to merge. Apartheid-era South Africa was perhaps a peculiar, even exceptional case. If
- [Making Kin](https://counterpointknowledge.org/making-kin/) - Making Kin By Alissa Jones Nelson “Make kin, not babies.” Donna J. Haraway’s four-word gauntlet, thrown down in her 2016 book Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene, becomes more relevant every day. As a woman who has chosen not to have children, I’ve been called many things. My femininity, spirituality, intellect, and
- [Poetic Science: How Literature Conveys Knowledge of Nature](https://counterpointknowledge.org/poetic-science-how-literature-conveys-knowledge-of-nature/) - Poetic Science: How Literature Conveys Knowledge of Nature By Kocku von Stuckrad For most non-specialists, much information about the natural world is drawn from newspapers, TV, and popular books. Even scientists are influenced by those sources. Another source of knowledge, however, and a thoroughly underestimated one, is literature—historical fiction, novels, poetry, and popular books by
- [Symposium: Paradoxe Plausibilität(en):  Astrologische Deutung aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven](https://counterpointknowledge.org/symposium-paradoxical-plausibilities-astrological-interpretations-from-different-perspectives-april-2019/) - Paradoxe Plausibilität(en): Astrologische Deutung aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven Paradoxical Plausibilities: Astrological Interpretation from Different Perspectives (event conducted in German) An interdisciplinary symposium, co-sponsored by the German Astrologers’ Association and Counterpoint 13–14 April 2019 in Berlin When it comes to the plausibility of astrology as a system of knowledge, interpretation, and experience, perspectives vary considerably. While astrologers,
- [On Life, Dogs, and Chernobyl](https://counterpointknowledge.org/on-life-dogs-and-chernobyl/) - On Life, Dogs, and Chernobyl By Whitney A. Bauman (Ferris Wheel, Pripyat, Ukraine) As someone who works in the broad field of “religion and nature,” and who regularly teaches a course on “Earth Ethics,” I jumped at the opportunity to visit one of the defining environmental disasters of our time: Chernobyl. The disaster there in
- [Predators, Prey, and Snowdrops: Recognizing the Nature of the World](https://counterpointknowledge.org/predators-prey-and-snowdrops-recognizing-the-nature-of-the-world/) - Predators, Prey, and Snowdrops: Recognizing the Nature of the World By Graham Harvey Some Amazonian Indigenous people recognize two ways in which living beings relate to others, as predators and prey. More accurately, sometimes a being acts as a predator and sometimes they become prey. A hunter (human, jaguar, deity, cannibal, or other predator) sets
- [Circling the Elephant: Why Difference Matters](https://counterpointknowledge.org/circling-the-elephant-why-difference-matters/) - Circling the Elephant: Why Difference Matters By John Thatamanil Recently, my wife and I dared to enter an old local haunt in her hometown, Big Bad John’s, a bar in Victoria, BC. With bras on the ceiling and peanut shells on the floor— it hardly strikes you as a setting for profound religious reflection. And
- [The Flint Knapper Who Cried “Snake”](https://counterpointknowledge.org/the-flint-knapper-who-cried-snake/) - The Flint Knapper Who Cried “Snake” By Sarah Pike During the Closing Circle of Rabbitstick Primitive Skills Gathering, a flint knapper (who shapes rocks by hand to make stone tools) asked the participants, “How do you react if someone in a crowd yells snake?” “Food!” said one. “Hide!” answered another, meaning the snake’s skin. “And
- [Fire and the Transfiguration of Paradise](https://counterpointknowledge.org/875-2/) - Fire and the Transfiguration of Paradise By Sarah Pike On the morning of November 8, 2018, the world turned silver and a shadow of its normal self. A black cloud of smoke from the Camp Fire in Paradise, California, ten miles from my home, blocked the sun for most of the day. We entered an
- [Our Hitch-Up Culture](https://counterpointknowledge.org/our-hitch-up-culture/) - Our Hitch-Up Culture By Anna Mercedes I teach in an American university culture where there is a lot of concern about the students’ casual hook-up culture—a too-fast coupling without long-term commitment. But I’m worried about another problem, a too-fast acceptance of marriage culture, a “hitch-up culture” that poses marriage, traditionally
- [On Absent Priests, the Dignity of Women, and Refugees](https://counterpointknowledge.org/870-2/) - On Absent Priests, the Dignity of Women, and Refugees By Anna Mercedes In a Roman Catholic monastery near the prairies of the American Midwest, more than a hundred Sisters gathered to mark the Sunday of the Epiphany, a Christian feast of light and divine presence. The musicians have been tirelessly practicing special music. But as
- [Cleo Mikutta: \\ //, Part 5](https://counterpointknowledge.org/cleo-mikutta-part-5/) - \ // By Cleo Mikutta - V - // The wide-eyed girls came every night. When they opened their raincoats, a scent of bitter honey would pour out. They handed in plastic bags with broken handles and unwound silvery scarves to reveal sharp collarbones. He looked for her short dark-blue hair, and the
- [Cleo Mikutta: \\ //, Part 4](https://counterpointknowledge.org/cleo-mikutta-part-4/) - \ // By Cleo Mikutta - IV - \ Her eyes rest on the pins, there on the wooden floor, sharp, metallic bodies, there on the floor, there, in the plastic box, there, with colorful heads. Pink, yellow, green, blue, and red. Violet. Light has entered the room, followed by shadow. They spread out
- [Cleo Mikutta: //  \\, Part 1](https://counterpointknowledge.org/cleo-mikutta-part-1/) - // \ By Cleo Mikutta “It is hard to write a beautiful song. It is harder to write several individually beautiful songs that, when sung simultaneously, sound as a more beautiful polyphonic whole. The internal structures that create each of the voices separately must contribute to the emergent structure of the polyphony, which in turn
- [Cleo Mikutta: //  \\, Part 2](https://counterpointknowledge.org/cleo-mikutta-part-2/) - // \ By Cleo Mikutta - II - // ‘You remind me of him,’ she said quietly, speaking to him through the flames, saying the words more to herself than to him. He watched her, from the other side of the fire. She had learned from the others that he did not speak. He
- [Cleo Mikutta: \\  //, Part 3](https://counterpointknowledge.org/cleo-mikutta-part-3/) - \ // By Cleo Mikutta - III - // \ On a cruise ship caught in a tropical storm, the chlorine water in the indoor swimming pool has begun to imitate the violent rhythm of the waves outside. The heavy armchairs in the lounge blow from side to side as though weightless. At
- [What is Your Part? Reflections on “Action” in a Time of Crisis](https://counterpointknowledge.org/what-is-your-part-reflections-on-action-in-a-time-of-crisis/) - What is Your Part? Reflections on “Action” in a Time of Crisis By Susannah Crockford As part of my research on climate change, I recently interviewed a retired civil engineer who worked for decades in the oil and gas industry. From inside his solar powered home, heated by wood-pellet burning stoves, he said that, though
- [Proud to be Bird-Brained ](https://counterpointknowledge.org/proud-to-be-bird-brained/) - Proud to be Bird-Brained By Jay Johnston I sat awkwardly aware of the tears coalescing and starting to slide down my cheeks. There I was, in the audience at a small community hall on a small island off Tasmania, losing emotional composure over The Louise Crossley Memorial Lecture by Dr. Bob Brown at the Bruny
- [Art Meets Astrology: Towards a Broader Understanding of Art History](https://counterpointknowledge.org/art-meets-astrology-towards-a-broader-understanding-of-art-history/) - Art Meets Astrology: Towards a Broader Understanding of Art History By Klemens Ludwig Traditional art historians and scholars ignore or even deny the importance of astrology in art. This limited view had led to some strange interpretations of artworks. It also overlooks Aby Warburg’s advice of 100 years ago that important works of art cannot
- [Preserving Religious Freedom When (Some) Churches Abuse their Members? ](https://counterpointknowledge.org/preserving-religious-freedom-when-some-churches-abuse-their-members/) - Preserving Religious Freedom When (Some) Churches Abuse their Members? By Dion Forster Religion plays a significant role in the lives of most South Africans. In the last census (2011), just over 84 percent of citizens said they are Christian while a Pew-report from the same period found that 74 percent of South Africans say that
- [The "Worthy Opposition": Learning to Learn](https://counterpointknowledge.org/the-worthy-opposition-learning-to-learn/) - The “Worthy Opposition”: Learning to Learn By Marcia Pally We are going deaf. We worry about political polarization, the rise of the radical right and so on, but there’s a deafness afoot that is pre-political and dangerous not only to democracy but to living with the other seven billion people on the planet. We are
- [A Good Death](https://counterpointknowledge.org/a-good-death/) - A Good Death By Whitney A. Bauman Many of us in “western” cultures are steeped in ethical and aesthetic questions about “the good life.” What is it and who has access to it? How ought we organize our governance and public institutions in ways that support such a life? These questions are
- [Why Physics Needs Poetry](https://counterpointknowledge.org/why-physics-needs-poetry/) - Why Physics Needs Poetry By Alissa Jones Nelson “Science explicates, poetry implicates. Both celebrate what they describe. We need the languages of both science and poetry to save us from merely stockpiling endless ‘information’ that fails to inform our ignorance or our irresponsibility.” I love Ursula Le Guin. This quote is
- [Why Be Virtuous?](https://counterpointknowledge.org/why-be-virtuous/) - Why Be Virtuous? By F. Samuel Brainard In the final days of October, more than a dozen pipe bombs were sent by a political fanatic to members of the opposing political party in the U.S.; two African-Americans were shot and killed at a grocery store simply, it seems, because they were black; 11 men and
- [Accountability or Objectivity? Being a Scholar in an Age of Crisis](https://counterpointknowledge.org/accountability-or-objectivity-being-a-scholar-in-an-age-of-crisis/) - Accountability or Objectivity? By Kocku von Stuckrad Are scholars the guardians of the Grail of Truth? Is there a truth that scholars have to insist on over against the “invention of facts” by some politicians and stakeholders in the public sphere? And when scholars become publicly engaged, do they lose their
- [The Time of Loneliness](https://counterpointknowledge.org/the-time-of-loneliness-counterpoint-blog-8-august-2018/) - The Time of Loneliness by Whitney A. Bauman We live in a world of sped-up reality. Sociologists describe the fossil-fueled pace of our world as a “space-time” crunch. This means that the communities near to us are intersected by global flows of energy and information on a daily basis and that the fossil-fueled speed at
- [Ten Theses on Academia, Society, and the Planetary Future:  A Counterpoint Manifesto](https://counterpointknowledge.org/ten-theses-on-academia-society-and-the-planetary-future-a-counterpoint-manifesto/) - Ten Theses on Academia, Society, and the Planetary Future: A Counterpoint Manifesto by Whitney A. Bauman & Kocku von Stuckrad [For a German version of this manifesto, please click here.] 1. The so-called “Anthropocene” is the result of several thousand years of human thought-regimes that emphasize human domination and exceptionalism. Current discourse on the “Anthropocene”
- [In Memoriam: Michael J. Harner (1929–2018)](https://counterpointknowledge.org/in-memoriam-michael-j-harner-1929-2018/) - In Memoriam: Michael J. Harner (1929–2018) by Kocku von Stuckrad Michael J. Harner passed on the morning of February 3. As announced by the Foundation for Shamanic Studies, his transition to the other world happened peacefully, surrounded by family and friends. He was 89 years old. Harner earned his PhD in anthropology at the University
- [Berlin’s Contrapuntal Agency: How Where We Live Changes What We Know](https://counterpointknowledge.org/berlins-contrapuntal-agency-how-where-we-live-changes-what-we-know/) - Berlin’s Contrapuntal Agency: Or, How Admitting the Knowledge of Place Can Change Science, Politics, and Culture by Kocku von Stuckrad Do places have knowledge? Do they have memory? If places convey these to us, is this in some way agency? And what would science and politics look like if we admitted the presence of place
- [Making Senses: Poetic Knowledge of Nature in Science, Art, and Shamanic Ritual](https://counterpointknowledge.org/making-senses-poetic-knowledge-of-nature-in-science-art-and-shamanic-ritual/) - Making Senses: Poetic Knowledge of Nature in Science, Art, and Shamanic Ritual by Kocku von Stuckrad Download a PDF Version of this essay (6 MB) Abstract The five senses of seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, and touching are regarded in European and North American tradition as the central channels through which human beings access the world around
- [Art-Work in the Age of Trump](https://counterpointknowledge.org/art-work-in-the-age-of-trump/) - Art-Work in the Age of Trump By Rachel Alliston Last August, at a Counterpoint conference in Berlin, Anthea Butler gave a keynote speech on the intersection of religious practice, religious freedom, and the secular state. At one point, drawing on France’s burkini debate, Butler spoke about how the “female body in public spaces” is an
- [On Fighting Well](https://counterpointknowledge.org/on-fighting-well/) - On Fighting Well By John Thatamanil Can we find certain convictions abhorrent without abhorring those who subscribe to them? Put crudely, can we refuse to hate the haters? If it is possible, is it also obligatory? If Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King are to be believed, the answer is an emphatic yes. Figuring out
- [What It Means to Deny Climate Change](https://counterpointknowledge.org/what-it-means-to-deny-climate-change/) - What It Means to Deny Climate Change By Susannah Crockford On 26 August 2018, sixty academics, environmentalists, and politicians released an open letter asserting that they will no longer debate with those who deny anthropogenic climate charge, refusing to enable any false equivalence between the two positions. As happens with nearly every well publicized statement
- [Perception and the Platypus](https://counterpointknowledge.org/perception-and-the-platypus/) - Perception and the Platypus By Jay Johnston I was desperate to see a platypus. Standing on riverbanks I would look out, simultaneously expectant and forlorn, scanning for signs of this notoriously shy monotreme. The platypus eluded me until I was taught how to see platypus. The onus, all along, was on me to actively cultivate
- [Social media as religion – unexamined desire and (mis-in)formation](https://counterpointknowledge.org/social-media-as-religion-unexamined-desire-and-mis-information/) - Social media as religion – a tale of unexamined desire and (mis-in)formation by Dion Forster It could be said that social media is the most prevalent religion of our time. Like other faiths, it forms us, and we use it to form our world according to our desires, values, and beliefs. New York Times bestselling
- [A Crisis for Governance and a Boon for Populism](https://counterpointknowledge.org/a-crisis-for-governance-and-a-boon-for-populism/) - Uncoupling Democracy's Forms from their Purposes: A Crisis for Governance and a Boon for Populism by Marcia Pally I’m still pondering this bit of data: Americans who, under the proposed Republican replacement for Obamacare (Obama’s healthcare program), would have lost $1000 in government subsidies voted for Trump by 7 percentage points. Those who stood
- [Beyond Epistemicide: Toward Multiple Forms of Knowledge](https://counterpointknowledge.org/beyond-epistemicide-toward-multiple-forms-of-knowledge/) - Beyond Epistemicide: Toward Multiple Forms of Knowledge by Joram Tarusarira Knowledge production, authentication, and dissemination require transcending a universal, fundamentalist[1] canon of thought that privileges one knowledge system at the expense of others. With modernity, a particular knowledge system came to occupy and dominate the academy and claim universality, neutrality, and objectivity. Yet knowledge is
- [Counterpoint: Conducting Edward Said's 'And Also'](https://counterpointknowledge.org/counterpoint-conducting-edward-saids-and-also/) - Counterpoint: Conducting Edward Said's 'And Also' by Alissa Jones Nelson Binaries are bogus constructions. We live in a world of continuum, of three-dimensional spiral. Linear progress is a myth we’ve told ourselves almost to death. It’s hardly original to suggest that contemporary approaches to the complexities of globalization–multiculturalism, populism, cosmopolitan localism, authoritarian developmentalism, and sustainable
- [Counterpoint: Navigating Knowledge Successfully Launched](https://counterpointknowledge.org/counterpoint-navigating-knowledge-successfully-launched/) - Major Themes and Insights for the Work of the New Center On 25 August 2018, Counterpoint: Navigating Knowledge was officially launched with a stimulating program of speakers and discussions in Berlin. The general theme being “Beyond Pluralism: Contrapuntal Responses to Culture Wars, New Nationalisms, and the Challenges of the Anthropocene” (see the launch description), the
- [Counterpoint: Official Launch Event](https://counterpointknowledge.org/counterpoint-official-launch-event/) - Join us for the official launch of Counterpoint: Navigating Knowledge on 25 August 2018 with an exciting program of speakers and discussions. Beyond Pluralism: Contrapuntal Responses to Culture Wars, New Nationalisms, and the Challenges of the Anthropocene Perhaps no two phenomena mark our planetary community more than globalization and climate change. These two phenomena have
- [Marcia Pally joins the Counterpoint Team as Blog Editor](https://counterpointknowledge.org/marcia-pally-joins-the-counterpoint-team-as-blog-editor/) - We are excited to announce that Professor Marcia Pally joins the Counterpoint Team as our new Blog Editor. As we are building up a wider community and preparing weekly posts for our Navigating Knowledge Blog, her professional experience will be of vital importance for the success of the blog. Prof. Marcia Pally teaches at New
- [Meaningful Flesh: Reflections on Religion and Nature for a Queer Planet](https://counterpointknowledge.org/meaningful-flesh-reflections-on-religion-and-nature-for-a-queer-planet/) - Punctum Books (2018) This volume, edited by Whitney A. Bauman, has just been published by Punctum Books. Please check out the description below and share with those in your networks who might be interested. Religion is much queerer than we ever imagined. Nature is as well. These are the two basic insights that have led
- [New Book by Zairong Xiang: Queer Ancient Ways: A Decolonial Exploration](https://counterpointknowledge.org/new-book-by-zairong-xiang-queer-ancient-ways-a-decolonial-exploration/) - Following Whitney A. Bauman's Meaningful Flesh, we are happy to announce another contribution for the Counterpoint community, also published with Punctum Books. Queer Ancient Ways by Zairong Xiang, member of our Advisory Board, will be out in fall. Congratulations! Queer Ancient Ways advocates a profound unlearning of colonial/modern categories as a pathway to the discovery
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- [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/friedrich-nietzsche/)
- [Rainer Maria Rilke](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/rainer-maria-rilke/)
- [USA](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/usa/)
- [Empiricism](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/empiricism/)
- [Nature-based Spirituality](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/nature-based-spirituality/)
- [Objectivity](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/objectivity/)
- [Cultural Studies](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/cultural-studies/)
- [Sixth Sense](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/sixth-sense/)
- [Wassily Kandinsky](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/wassily-kandinsky/)
- [Cleo Mikutta](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/cleo-mikutta/)
- [Fiction](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/fiction/)
- [Short Story](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/short-story/)
- [John Rahn](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/john-rahn/)
- [democracy](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/democracy/)
- [democratic government](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/democratic-government/)
- [populism](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/populism/)
- [neo-nationalism](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/neo-nationalism/)
- [small-government](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/small-government/)
- [small-government-ism](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/small-government-ism/)
- [American politics](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/american-politics/)
- [US politics](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/us-politics/)
- [Trump](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/trump/)
- [US elections](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/us-elections/)
- [political corruption](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/political-corruption/)
- [Marcia Pally](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/marcia-pally/)
- [Joram Tarusarira](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/joram-tarusarira/)
- [Social Media](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/social-media/)
- [identity](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/identity/)
- [imagination](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/imagination/)
- [political thought](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/political-thought/)
- [Dion FOrster](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/dion-forster/)
- [Social media as religion](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/social-media-as-religion/)
- [perception](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/perception/)
- [wildlife](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/wildlife/)
- [ethics](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/ethics/)
- [vision](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/vision/)
- [learning](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/learning/)
- [Jay Johnston](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/jay-johnston/)
- [Charles Foster](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/charles-foster/)
- [Being a Beast](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/being-a-beast/)
- [Animals](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/animals/)
- [Australia](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/australia/)
- [denialism](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/denialism/)
- [authority](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/authority/)
- [Susannah Crockford](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/susannah-crockford/)
- [climate change denial](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/climate-change-denial/)
- [Christian dominion theory](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/christian-dominion-theory/)
- [End Times](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/end-times/)
- [apocalypse](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/apocalypse/)
- [Astrology](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/astrology/)
- [Psychology](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/psychology/)
- [Psychotherapy](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/psychotherapy/)
- [Parapsychology](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/parapsychology/)
- [Marriage](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/marriage/)
- [hook-up](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/hook-up/)
- [hitch up](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/hitch-up/)
- [Christianity](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/christianity/)
- [sexuality](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/sexuality/)
- [shame](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/shame/)
- [LGBT](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/lgbt/)
- [Anna Mercedes](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/anna-mercedes/)
- [Christian marriage](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/christian-marriage/)
- [Christian sexuality](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/christian-sexuality/)
- [Nonhuman animals](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/nonhuman-animals/)
- [hunting](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/hunting/)
- [voluntary simplicity](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/voluntary-simplicity/)
- [Sarah Pike](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/sarah-pike/)
- [Rabbitstick Primitive Skills](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/rabbitstick-primitive-skills/)
- [primitive skills movement](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/primitive-skills-movement/)
- [ancestral skills movement](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/ancestral-skills-movement/)
- [Sarah M. Pike](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/sarah-m-pike/)
- [Vegetarianism](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/vegetarianism/)
- [Veganism](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/veganism/)
- [hierarchy and misconduct](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/hierarchy-and-misconduct/)
- [academic celebrity](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/academic-celebrity/)
- [bullying](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/bullying/)
- [peer-review](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/peer-review/)
- [collective knowledge production](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/collective-knowledge-production/)
- [academic harrassment](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/academic-harrassment/)
- [sexual harrassment](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/sexual-harrassment/)
- [Zairong Xiang](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/zairong-xiang/)
- [micocosmopolitanism](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/micocosmopolitanism/)
- [John Thatamanil](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/john-thatamanil/)
- [Civility](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/civility/)
- [nonviolence](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/nonviolence/)
- [Martin Luther King Jr.](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/martin-luther-king-jr/)
- [Gandhi](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/gandhi/)
- [Donald Trump](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/donald-trump/)
- [Hillary Clinton](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/hillary-clinton/)
- [polarization](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/polarization/)
- [deplorables](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/deplorables/)
- [political art](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/political-art/)
- [protest art](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/protest-art/)
- [black art](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/black-art/)
- [black cultural history](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/black-cultural-history/)
- [Rachel Alliston](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/rachel-alliston/)
- [Decad](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/decad/)
- [political right](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/political-right/)
- [Afd](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/afd/)
- [Alternative fuer Deutschland](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/alternative-fuer-deutschland/)
- [critical art](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/critical-art/)
- [art exhibition spaces](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/art-exhibition-spaces/)
- [musuems](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/musuems/)
- [Accountability](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/accountability/)
- [Bertolt Brecht](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/bertolt-brecht/)
- [Bruno Latour](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/bruno-latour/)
- [Engaged Scholarship](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/engaged-scholarship/)
- [Fake News](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/fake-news/)
- [Insider/Outsider](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/insider-outsider/)
- [Open Peer Review](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/open-peer-review/)
- [Pragmatism](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/pragmatism/)
- [Relativism](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/relativism/)
- [Richard Rorty](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/richard-rorty/)
- [Solidarity](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/solidarity/)
- [virtue](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/virtue/)
- [hate crime](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/hate-crime/)
- [political violence](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/political-violence/)
- [moral relativism](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/moral-relativism/)
- [intolerance](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/intolerance/)
- [golden rule](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/golden-rule/)
- [religious multiplicity](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/religious-multiplicity/)
- [F. Samuel Brainard](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/f-samuel-brainard/)
- [physics](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/physics/)
- [education](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/education/)
- [Rae Armantrout](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/rae-armantrout/)
- [Ursula K. Le Guin](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/ursula-k-le-guin/)
- [Carlo Rovelli](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/carlo-rovelli/)
- [Frank Wilczek](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/frank-wilczek/)
- [physics for poets](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/physics-for-poets/)
- [death and dying](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/death-and-dying/)
- [relational self](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/relational-self/)
- [a good death](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/a-good-death/)
- [worthy opposition](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/worthy-opposition/)
- [political polarization](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/political-polarization/)
- [Carol Gilligan](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/carol-gilligan/)
- [attachment theory](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/attachment-theory/)
- [John Bowles](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/john-bowles/)
- [radical right](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/radical-right/)
- [Religious freedom](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/religious-freedom/)
- [religious abuse](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/religious-abuse/)
- [apartheid](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/apartheid/)
- [South Africa](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/south-africa/)
- [liberty](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/liberty/)
- [clergy and abuse](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/clergy-and-abuse/)
- [church sexual abuse](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/church-sexual-abuse/)
- [Klemens Ludwig](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/klemens-ludwig/)
- [Works of Art](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/works-of-art/)
- [Hidden Symbolism](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/hidden-symbolism/)
- [Cosmic circle](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/cosmic-circle/)
- [Divine areas](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/divine-areas/)
- [Zodiac](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/zodiac/)
- [art and astrology](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/art-and-astrology/)
- [Christianity and astrology](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/christianity-and-astrology/)
- [art and zodiac](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/art-and-zodiac/)
- [Christianity and zodiac](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/christianity-and-zodiac/)
- [birds](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/birds/)
- [conservation](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/conservation/)
- [hope](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/hope/)
- [animal signs](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/animal-signs/)
- [bird cognition](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/bird-cognition/)
- [human-bird relationship](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/human-bird-relationship/)
- [action](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/action/)
- [mass movements](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/mass-movements/)
- [Priesthood](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/priesthood/)
- [Feminism](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/feminism/)
- [female priests](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/female-priests/)
- [refugees](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/refugees/)
- [Vatican](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/vatican/)
- [Mulieris Dignatatem](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/mulieris-dignatatem/)
- [Dignity of Women](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/dignity-of-women/)
- [catholic church and women](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/catholic-church-and-women/)
- [fire; disaster; ecology; watersheds; Camp Fire; California; Maidu Indians](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/fire-disaster-ecology-watersheds-camp-fire-california-maidu-indians/)
- [Double Belongers](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/double-belongers/)
- [difference](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/difference/)
- [multiple religious participation](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/multiple-religious-participation/)
- [JewBu](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/jewbu/)
- [Eucharist](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/eucharist/)
- [yoga](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/yoga/)
- [predation](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/predation/)
- [consumerism](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/consumerism/)
- [relations](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/relations/)
- [recognition](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/recognition/)
- [Graham Harvey](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/graham-harvey/)
- [Amazonists](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/amazonists/)
- [Plants](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/plants/)
- [Whitney Bauman](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/whitney-bauman/)
- [dogs of Chernobyl](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/dogs-of-chernobyl/)
- [nuclear disaster](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/nuclear-disaster/)
- [recovery from nuclear fallout](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/recovery-from-nuclear-fallout/)
- [Chernobyl](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/chernobyl/)
- [Planetary Identity](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/planetary-identity/)
- [Amanda Jo Goldstein](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/amanda-jo-goldstein/)
- [Barry Lopez](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/barry-lopez/)
- [Dark Green Religion](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/dark-green-religion/)
- [Hermann Hesse](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/hermann-hesse/)
- [Literature](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/literature/)
- [Peter Wohlleben](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/peter-wohlleben/)
- [Poetic Science](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/poetic-science/)
- [Rachel Carson](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/rachel-carson/)
- [Richard Powers](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/richard-powers/)
- [overpopulation](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/overpopulation/)
- [demography](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/demography/)
- [planetary crisis](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/planetary-crisis/)
- [Donna Haraway](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/donna-haraway/)
- [kin](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/kin/)
- [immigration](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/immigration/)
- [Donna J. Haraway](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/donna-j-haraway/)
- [Brexit](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/brexit/)
- [evangelicalism](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/evangelicalism/)
- [Retief Muller](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/retief-muller/)
- [religion and nationalism](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/religion-and-nationalism/)
- [religion and racism](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/religion-and-racism/)
- [religion and separatism](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/religion-and-separatism/)
- [Humanities](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/humanities/)
- [Translation](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/translation/)
- [Diversity](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/diversity/)
- [Bio-cultural Diversity](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/bio-cultural-diversity/)
- [Politics](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/politics/)
- [Languages](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/languages/)
- [Biosemiotics](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/biosemiotics/)
- [Interspecies Communication](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/interspecies-communication/)
- [Thomas Aquinas](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/thomas-aquinas/)
- [common good](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/common-good/)
- [Gaudium et Spes](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/gaudium-et-spes/)
- [Charles De Koninck](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/charles-de-koninck/)
- [Alasdair MacIntyre](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/alasdair-macintyre/)
- [2018 US midterm elections](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/2018-us-midterm-elections/)
- [Republican party beliefs](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/republican-party-beliefs/)
- [U.S. politics](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/u-s-politics/)
- [Forgiveness](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/forgiveness/)
- [Reconciliation](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/reconciliation/)
- [Political Theology](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/political-theology/)
- [RhodesMustFall](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/rhodesmustfall/)
- [FeesMustFall](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/feesmustfall/)
- [Nathan Trantraal](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/nathan-trantraal/)
- [Robert Vosloo](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/robert-vosloo/)
- [Environmental Action](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/environmental-action/)
- [Charles Massey](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/charles-massey/)
- [Regenerative Agriculture](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/regenerative-agriculture/)
- [Nature Writing](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/nature-writing/)
- [environmental protection](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/environmental-protection/)
- [nonlinear systems](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/nonlinear-systems/)
- [school strikes](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/school-strikes/)
- [Prayer](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/prayer/)
- [public Christian hegemony](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/public-christian-hegemony/)
- [Stephanie Borowicz](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/stephanie-borowicz/)
- [Movita Johnson-Harrell](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/movita-johnson-harrell/)
- [Muslims in US government](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/muslims-in-us-government/)
- [Muslims in America](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/muslims-in-america/)
- [California fires](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/california-fires/)
- [Chico California](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/chico-california/)
- [Paradise California](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/paradise-california/)
- [memorials](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/memorials/)
- [memory](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/memory/)
- [disaster](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/disaster/)
- [grief](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/grief/)
- [St. Paul](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/st-paul/)
- [POSE TV series](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/pose-tv-series/)
- [drag](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/drag/)
- [empowerment](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/empowerment/)
- [charity](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/charity/)
- [gay children](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/gay-children/)
- [gay teens](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/gay-teens/)
- [gay runaways](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/gay-runaways/)
- [RuPaul](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/rupaul/)
- [Easter](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/easter/)
- [Easter Bunnies](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/easter-bunnies/)
- [Resurrection](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/resurrection/)
- [Pagan](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/pagan/)
- [history](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/history/)
- [Easter eggs](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/easter-eggs/)
- [Scientism](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/scientism/)
- [Philosophy of Science](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/philosophy-of-science/)
- [Great Acceleration](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/great-acceleration/)
- [Progress](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/progress/)
- [Planetary Decline](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/planetary-decline/)
- [noosphere](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/noosphere/)
- [Ernst Haeckel](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/ernst-haeckel/)
- [Extinction Rebellion](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/extinction-rebellion/)
- [IPBES](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/ipbes/)
- [Lynn White](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/lynn-white/)
- [Ludwig Klages](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/ludwig-klages/)
- [Daniel Quinn](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/daniel-quinn/)
- [Human Reproduction](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/human-reproduction/)
- [Meat Production](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/meat-production/)
- [Dairy Industries](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/dairy-industries/)
- [Biocentric Ethics](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/biocentric-ethics/)
- [Anthropocentrism](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/anthropocentrism/)
- [Capitalism](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/capitalism/)
- [Greta Thunberg](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/greta-thunberg/)
- [Loriliai Biernacki](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/loriliai-biernacki/)
- [Joel Salatin](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/joel-salatin/)
- [Eighth Day Farm](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/eighth-day-farm/)
- [Vandana Shiva](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/vandana-shiva/)
- [Taker Culture](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/taker-culture/)
- [Biocentrism](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/biocentrism/)
- [Regenerative Farming](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/regenerative-farming/)
- [Jeffrey Smith](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/jeffrey-smith/)
- [Rodale Institute](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/rodale-institute/)
- [Pope Francis](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/pope-francis/)
- [Catherine Keller](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/catherine-keller/)
- [Bron Taylor](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/bron-taylor/)
- [Agriculture](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/agriculture/)
- [species death](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/species-death/)
- [Carl Safina](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/carl-safina/)
- [endangered species](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/endangered-species/)
- [Christof Niederwieser](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/christof-niederwieser/)
- [Harry Tobler](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/harry-tobler/)
- [Gertrude Ulrike Voltmer](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/gertrude-ulrike-voltmer/)
- [Deutscher Astrologenverband](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/deutscher-astrologenverband/)
- [Psychological Astrology](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/psychological-astrology/)
- [Sophia Löwe](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/sophia-lowe/)
- [Gerhard Mayer](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/gerhard-mayer/)
- [evolution](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/evolution/)
- [cooperativity](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/cooperativity/)
- [Darcia Narvaez](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/darcia-narvaez/)
- [Frans de Waal](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/frans-de-waal/)
- [Robert Bellah](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/robert-bellah/)
- [Donald Pfaff](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/donald-pfaff/)
- [Robert Sapolsky](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/robert-sapolsky/)
- [Sarah Hrdy](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/sarah-hrdy/)
- [Michael Tomasello](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/michael-tomasello/)
- [Carel van Schaik](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/carel-van-schaik/)
- [Kai Michel](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/kai-michel/)
- [Lee Clare](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/lee-clare/)
- [Patriarchy](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/patriarchy/)
- [Oppression](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/oppression/)
- [Whiteness](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/whiteness/)
- [Worthy Women](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/worthy-women/)
- [Dark Mountain](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/dark-mountain/)
- [Ecological Grief](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/ecological-grief/)
- [ecological ritual](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/ecological-ritual/)
- [ecological-based art](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/ecological-based-art/)
- [California](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/california/)
- [Maidu Indian](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/maidu-indian/)
- [fire](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/fire/)
- [watersheds](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/watersheds/)
- [CamFire](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/camfire/)
- [Babette Hellemans](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/babette-hellemans/)
- [Asghar Seyed-Gohrab](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/asghar-seyed-gohrab/)
- [Sven Gins](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/sven-gins/)
- [Wesley Pechler](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/wesley-pechler/)
- [Piet Devos](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/piet-devos/)
- [Pride](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/pride/)
- [Stonewall](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/stonewall/)
- [David M. Halperin](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/david-m-halperin/)
- [queer pride](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/queer-pride/)
- [Pride month](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/pride-month/)
- [Gender.Gender Studies](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/gender-gender-studies/)
- [Ecological crisis](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/ecological-crisis/)
- [divine intervention](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/divine-intervention/)
- [human agency](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/human-agency/)
- [process theology](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/process-theology/)
- [wonder](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/wonder/)
- [animal stories](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/animal-stories/)
- [Laurie Sarkadi](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/laurie-sarkadi/)
- [Kelly Oliver](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/kelly-oliver/)
- [animal grief](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/animal-grief/)
- [personal narratives](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/personal-narratives/)
- [Haida](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/haida/)
- [global health](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/global-health/)
- [public health](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/public-health/)
- [soteriology](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/soteriology/)
- [salvation](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/salvation/)
- [environmental ethics](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/environmental-ethics/)
- [integral ecology](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/integral-ecology/)
- [James Miller](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/james-miller/)
- [sacred sites](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/sacred-sites/)
- [folklore](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/folklore/)
- [Ireland](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/ireland/)
- [saints](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/saints/)
- [bees](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/bees/)
- [traditional ecological knowledge](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/traditional-ecological-knowledge/)
- [Counterpoint NavigatingKnowledge](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/counterpoint-navigatingknowledge/)
- [Gobnait](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/gobnait/)
- [wells](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/wells/)
- [Daoism](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/daoism/)
- [modernity](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/modernity/)
- [post-modernity](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/post-modernity/)
- [truth](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/truth/)
- [Climate Crisis](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/climate-crisis/)
- [Metaphysics](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/metaphysics/)
- [Divine Action](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/divine-action/)
- [Astronomy](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/astronomy/)
- [Occultism](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/occultism/)
- [Relationality](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/relationality/)
- [Soul](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/soul/)
- [Thomas Ring](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/thomas-ring/)
- [Roy Willis](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/roy-willis/)
- [Patrick Curry](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/patrick-curry/)
- [Geoffrey Cornelius](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/geoffrey-cornelius/)
- [longevity](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/longevity/)
- [aging](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/aging/)
- [immortality](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/immortality/)
- [silver tsunami](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/silver-tsunami/)
- [solutionism](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/solutionism/)
- [environmental crisis](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/environmental-crisis/)
- [population growth](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/population-growth/)
- [story](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/story/)
- [Max Porter](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/max-porter/)
- [Cristina Rivera Garza](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/cristina-rivera-garza/)
- [Elvia Wilk](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/elvia-wilk/)
- [gun violence](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/gun-violence/)
- [gun control](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/gun-control/)
- [mass shootings](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/mass-shootings/)
- [school shootings](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/school-shootings/)
- [terrorist attacks](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/terrorist-attacks/)
- [originalism](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/originalism/)
- [original intent](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/original-intent/)
- [the Second Amendment](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/the-second-amendment/)
- [well-ordered militia](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/well-ordered-militia/)
- [Millenarianism](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/millenarianism/)
- [Date Setting](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/date-setting/)
- [Evangelical Christianity](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/evangelical-christianity/)
- [Social Identity](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/social-identity/)
- [Protectionism](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/protectionism/)
- [Assimilation](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/assimilation/)
- [Trauma](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/trauma/)
- [Facilitation](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/facilitation/)
- [Autumn Brown](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/autumn-brown/)
- [adrienne maree brown](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/adrienne-maree-brown/)
- [Climate Strike](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/climate-strike/)
- [walkout](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/walkout/)
- [India](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/india/)
- [Tradition](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/tradition/)
- [Autonomy](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/autonomy/)
- [Caste](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/caste/)
- [Conversion](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/conversion/)
- [Rewilding](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/rewilding/)
- [Culture](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/culture/)
- [Donovan O. Schaefer](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/donovan-o-schaefer/)
- [Spirituality](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/spirituality/)
- [Blue Humanities](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/blue-humanities/)
- [Oceanic Turn](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/oceanic-turn/)
- [Blue Planet](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/blue-planet/)
- [Middle Passage](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/middle-passage/)
- [Justine M. Bakker](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/justine-m-bakker/)
- [Atlantic](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/atlantic/)
- [Ocean](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/ocean/)
- [Flame](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/flame/)
- [Reformation](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/reformation/)
- [Eco-Reformation](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/eco-reformation/)
- [Martin Luther](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/martin-luther/)
- [Baptism](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/baptism/)
- [River](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/river/)
- [Dietrich Bonhoeffer](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/dietrich-bonhoeffer/)
- [Lisa E. Dahill](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/lisa-e-dahill/)
- [Elders](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/elders/)
- [Trees](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/trees/)
- [Tree Conscicousness](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/tree-conscicousness/)
- [Heroism](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/heroism/)
- [Saami](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/saami/)
- [Arctic Council](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/arctic-council/)
- [David George Haskell](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/david-george-haskell/)
- [United Nations](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/united-nations/)
- [Åsa Larsson Blind](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/asa-larsson-blind/)
- [Social Justice](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/social-justice/)
- [Saami Council](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/saami-council/)
- [Millennials](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/millennials/)
- [Baby Boomers](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/baby-boomers/)
- [Public Discourse](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/public-discourse/)
- [Val Plumwood](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/val-plumwood/)
- [Greg Johnson](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/greg-johnson/)
- [Mauna Kea](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/mauna-kea/)
- [Public Engagement](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/public-engagement/)
- [Sacred](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/sacred/)
- [Hawai`i](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/hawaii/)
- [Marie Alohalani Brown](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/marie-alohalani-brown/)
- [Marion Grau](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/marion-grau/)
- [Norway](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/norway/)
- [Environmental Policies](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/environmental-policies/)
- [Oil Industry](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/oil-industry/)
- [Sustainability](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/sustainability/)
- [Extinction](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/extinction/)
- [post-truth age](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/post-truth-age/)
- [Indic traditions](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/indic-traditions/)
- [Mahayana Buddhism](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/mahayana-buddhism/)
- [Desire](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/desire/)
- [Transgender](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/transgender/)
- [Pronouns](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/pronouns/)
- [Inclusive language](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/inclusive-language/)
- [Inclusivity](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/inclusivity/)
- [LGBTQ](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/lgbtq/)
- [white supremacy](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/white-supremacy/)
- [free speech](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/free-speech/)
- [hate speech](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/hate-speech/)
- [farmers’ markets](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/farmers-markets/)
- [bush fires](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/bush-fires/)
- [mourning](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/mourning/)
- [Australia fires](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/australia-fires/)
- [New South Wales](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/new-south-wales/)
- [Cosmotheandrism](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/cosmotheandrism/)
- [Decolonization](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/decolonization/)
- [Knowledge Production](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/knowledge-production/)
- [Power](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/power/)
- [Jean Marc Ela](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/jean-marc-ela/)
- [Arnold Gehlen](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/arnold-gehlen/)
- [Simon Kofi Appiah](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/simon-kofi-appiah/)
- [Ghana](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/ghana/)
- [Charles Nyamiti](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/charles-nyamiti/)
- [Iowa](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/iowa/)
- [Caucus](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/caucus/)
- [Hunter-gatherer](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/hunter-gatherer/)
- [US Primaries](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/us-primaries/)
- [Paul Ricoeur](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/paul-ricoeur/)
- [Germany](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/germany/)
- [Genocide](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/genocide/)
- [Holocaust](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/holocaust/)
- [National Socialism](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/national-socialism/)
- [Herero and Nama Genocide](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/herero-and-nama-genocide/)
- [Herero](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/herero/)
- [anti-Semitism](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/anti-semitism/)
- [Namibia](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/namibia/)
- [Tanzania](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/tanzania/)
- [Andreas Eckert](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/andreas-eckert/)
- [Critical Planetary Romanticism](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/critical-planetary-romanticism/)
- [(re)attunement](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/reattunement/)
- [Theory of Religion](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/theory-of-religion/)
- [Mass Extinction](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/mass-extinction/)
- [Planetary Justice](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/planetary-justice/)
- [Ocean Science](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/ocean-science/)
- [Science and Technology Studies](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/science-and-technology-studies/)
- [Scientific Truth](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/scientific-truth/)
- [Listening](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/listening/)
- [Wicked Problems](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/wicked-problems/)
- [Mexico](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/mexico/)
- [Mechoopda](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/mechoopda/)
- [COVID-19](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/covid-19/)
- [Interconnectedness](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/interconnectedness/)
- [Butterfly effect](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/butterfly-effect/)
- [Coronavirus](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/coronavirus/)
- [Death](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/death/)
- [Dying](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/dying/)
- [Elderly people](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/elderly-people/)
- [Geronticide](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/geronticide/)
- [Teya Brooks Pribac](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/teya-brooks-pribac/)
- [Cathrien de Pater](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/cathrien-de-pater/)
- [Forest Management](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/forest-management/)
- [Human-Forest Interactions](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/human-forest-interactions/)
- [Forestry](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/forestry/)
- [Netherlands](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/netherlands/)
- [Nepal](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/nepal/)
- [David Abram](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/david-abram/)
- [Earth Day](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/earth-day/)
- [Personhood](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/personhood/)
- [Counterpoint Conversation](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/counterpoint-conversation/)
- [Eduardo Kohn](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/eduardo-kohn/)
- [Matthew Hall](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/matthew-hall/)
- [Human Exceptionalism](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/human-exceptionalism/)
- [Carl Schmitt](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/carl-schmitt/)
- [Giorgio Agamben](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/giorgio-agamben/)
- [state of emergency](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/state-of-emergency/)
- [state of exception](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/state-of-exception/)
- [Robert Redfield](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/robert-redfield/)
- [William Barr](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/william-barr/)
- [J.D. Mechelke](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/j-d-mechelke/)
- [political imagination](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/political-imagination/)
- [social imaginaries](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/social-imaginaries/)
- [Albert Camus](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/albert-camus/)
- [Slavoj Žižek](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/slavoj-zizek/)
- [COVID-19 Pandemic](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/covid-19-pandemic/)
- [unveiling](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/unveiling/)
- [revelation](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/revelation/)
- [Environmental Racism](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/environmental-racism/)
- [Cancer Alley](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/cancer-alley/)
- [Hurricane Katrina](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/hurricane-katrina/)
- [Ellen Gallagher](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/ellen-gallagher/)
- [Pandemic](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/pandemic/)
- [Zainal Bagir](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/zainal-bagir/)
- [Katerina Teaiwa](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/katerina-teaiwa/)
- [Anna Winger](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/anna-winger/)
- [Michael Scaturro](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/michael-scaturro/)
- [Earth](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/earth/)
- [Ahmaud Arbery](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/ahmaud-arbery/)
- [Breonna Taylor](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/breonna-taylor/)
- [White Privilege](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/white-privilege/)
- [Spanish Flu](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/spanish-flu/)
- [dystopia](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/dystopia/)
- [utopia](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/utopia/)
- [hyperobject](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/hyperobject/)
- [Jenny Offill](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/jenny-offill/)
- [Stories](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/stories/)
- [George Floyd](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/george-floyd/)
- [Arundhati Roy](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/arundhati-roy/)
- [Neoliberalism](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/neoliberalism/)
- [John Milton](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/john-milton/)
- [World loss](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/world-loss/)
- [William Wordsworth](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/william-wordsworth/)
- [enchantment](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/enchantment/)
- [sixth great extinction](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/sixth-great-extinction/)
- [George Orwell](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/george-orwell/)
- [Black Lives Matter](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/black-lives-matter/)
- [Consciousness](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/consciousness/)
- [World Soul](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/world-soul/)
- [Wolfgang Pauli](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/wolfgang-pauli/)
- [Carl Gustav Jung](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/carl-gustav-jung/)
- [Transpersonal Psychology](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/transpersonal-psychology/)
- [Lisa H. Sideris](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/lisa-h-sideris/)
- [Ethical Thinking](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/ethical-thinking/)
- [Pandemic Time](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/pandemic-time/)
- [Racial Justice](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/racial-justice/)
- [Ecological Justice](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/ecological-justice/)
- [Ecotheology](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/ecotheology/)
- [Environmental Behavior](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/environmental-behavior/)
- [Judaism](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/judaism/)
- [Sabbath](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/sabbath/)
- [Jonathan Schorsch](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/jonathan-schorsch/)
- [Masks](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/masks/)
- [Social Distancing](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/social-distancing/)
- [Alvin Plantinga](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/alvin-plantinga/)
- [Mike DeWine](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/mike-dewine/)
- [Greg Abbott](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/greg-abbott/)
- [Erotic Ecology](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/erotic-ecology/)
- [Andreas Weber](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/andreas-weber/)
- [Mount Rushmore](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/mount-rushmore/)
- [Black Hills](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/black-hills/)
- [Lakota](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/lakota/)
- [Metaphors](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/metaphors/)
- [Storytelling](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/storytelling/)
- [United States](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/united-states/)
- [Daniel Bryan](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/daniel-bryan/)
- [Pachaysana](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/pachaysana/)
- [Emotion for Change](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/emotion-for-change/)
- [Science and Religion](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/science-and-religion/)
- [Ayudha Puja](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/ayudha-puja/)
- [Renny Thomas](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/renny-thomas/)
- [Laboratories](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/laboratories/)
- [Indian Space Research Organization](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/indian-space-research-organization/)
- [Hinduism](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/hinduism/)
- [Grace Logan](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/grace-logan/)
- [Knowing](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/knowing/)
- [Justice](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/justice/)
- [Healing](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/healing/)
- [Biology](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/biology/)
- [Magic](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/magic/)
- [Peter Pels](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/peter-pels/)
- [Sara Michieletto](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/sara-michieletto/)
- [Biophony](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/biophony/)
- [Anthropophony](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/anthropophony/)
- [Artists for Plants](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/artists-for-plants/)
- [Antonio Stradivari](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/antonio-stradivari/)
- [Labverde](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/labverde/)
- [Soundscapes](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/soundscapes/)
- [Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/wolfgang-amadeus-mozart/)
- [Amazon](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/amazon/)
- [Bernie Krause](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/bernie-krause/)
- [Elisabetta Zavoli](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/elisabetta-zavoli/)
- [Environmental Awareness](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/environmental-awareness/)
- [International Film Festival of Venice](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/international-film-festival-of-venice/)
- [Hector Aristizábal](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/hector-aristizabal/)
- [Carol Wayne White](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/carol-wayne-white/)
- [Juan Sanchez](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/juan-sanchez/)
- [Polly O. Walker](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/polly-o-walker/)
- [Bronte Velez](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/bronte-velez/)
- [Alexandra Cornelius](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/alexandra-cornelius/)
- [Iris Book Award](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/iris-book-award/)
- [tax evasion](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/tax-evasion/)
- [tax rates](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/tax-rates/)
- [tax wealth](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/tax-wealth/)
- [IRS](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/irs/)
- [tax cuts](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/tax-cuts/)
- [othering](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/othering/)
- [Circling the Elephant](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/circling-the-elephant/)
- [inter-religious theology](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/inter-religious-theology/)
- [religious diversity](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/religious-diversity/)
- [traditions](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/traditions/)
- [religious resources](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/religious-resources/)
- [narrative deprivation](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/narrative-deprivation/)
- [conspiracy theories](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/conspiracy-theories/)
- [COVID pandemic](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/covid-pandemic/)
- [Barmen Declaration](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/barmen-declaration/)
- [Confessing Church](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/confessing-church/)
- [Christian Theology](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/christian-theology/)
- [Islamophobia](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/islamophobia/)
- [Christophobia](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/christophobia/)
- [Turkey](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/turkey/)
- [Freedom of Religion](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/freedom-of-religion/)
- [Rachel Woodlock](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/rachel-woodlock/)
- [Islam](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/islam/)
- [Egypt](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/egypt/)
- [Indonesia](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/indonesia/)
- [Secularism](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/secularism/)
- [Dynamism of difference](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/dynamism-of-difference/)
- [relationality of contrast](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/relationality-of-contrast/)
- [Sustainably shared future](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/sustainably-shared-future/)
- [Tikva](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/tikva/)
- [U.S. election](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/u-s-election/)
- [political difference](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/political-difference/)
- [political dialogue](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/political-dialogue/)
- [Trumpism](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/trumpism/)
- [Joe Biden](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/joe-biden/)
- [Fascism](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/fascism/)
- [David Chidester](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/david-chidester/)
- [Charles H. Long](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/charles-h-long/)
- [Anna Perdibon](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/anna-perdibon/)
- [Botanical Personhood](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/botanical-personhood/)
- [Folktales](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/folktales/)
- [New Animism](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/new-animism/)
- [Feral Atlas Project](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/feral-atlas-project/)
- [Planetary](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/planetary/)
- [Pedagogy](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/pedagogy/)
- [Education Reform](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/education-reform/)
- [Rainforest](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/rainforest/)
- [Ecuador](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/ecuador/)
- [Ways of Knowing](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/ways-of-knowing/)
- [Knowledge System](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/knowledge-system/)
- [Gift](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/gift/)
- [Hospitality](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/hospitality/)
- [Jacques Derrida](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/jacques-derrida/)
- [De-extinction](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/de-extinction/)
- [Endlings](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/endlings/)
- [Evidence in Science](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/evidence-in-science/)
- [Anthropomorphism](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/anthropomorphism/)
- [Animal Studies](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/animal-studies/)
- [Neuroscience](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/neuroscience/)
- [Animal Consciousness](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/animal-consciousness/)
- [Nonhuman Animal Subjectivity](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/nonhuman-animal-subjectivity/)
- [Violence U.S. Capitol](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/violence-u-s-capitol/)
- [Violence U.S. Congress](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/violence-u-s-congress/)
- [Trump Supporters](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/trump-supporters/)
- [Proud Boys](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/proud-boys/)
- [Q-anon](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/q-anon/)
- [Political Belief Systems](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/political-belief-systems/)
- [Political Tragedy](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/political-tragedy/)
- [Vamik Volkan](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/vamik-volkan/)
- [Jeanne Knutson](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/jeanne-knutson/)
- [Nature vs. Culture](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/nature-vs-culture/)
- [Helen Macdonald](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/helen-macdonald/)
- [City](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/city/)
- [Queer Studies](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/queer-studies/)
- [Wilderness](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/wilderness/)
- [Mindfulness](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/mindfulness/)
- [Somatics](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/somatics/)
- [Pendulation](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/pendulation/)
- [David Treleaven](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/david-treleaven/)
- [sovereignty](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/sovereignty/)
- [the Gospel of John](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/the-gospel-of-john/)
- [Pilate](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/pilate/)
- [white evangelical Christian nationalism](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/white-evangelical-christian-nationalism/)
- [Christian nationalism](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/christian-nationalism/)
- [Trump's lies](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/trumps-lies/)
- [Protestantism](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/protestantism/)
- [dissenting Protestants](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/dissenting-protestants/)
- [work](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/work/)
- [merit](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/merit/)
- [meritocracy](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/meritocracy/)
- [economics](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/economics/)
- [happiness](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/happiness/)
- [Supremacism](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/supremacism/)
- [Climate](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/climate/)
- [Nihilism](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/nihilism/)
- [Urban Farming](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/urban-farming/)
- [Food Insecurity](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/food-insecurity/)
- [Industrial Agriculture](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/industrial-agriculture/)
- [Public Sphere](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/public-sphere/)
- [Social Movement](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/social-movement/)
- [Laurie Shrage](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/laurie-shrage/)
- [Microplastics](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/microplastics/)
- [Journalism](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/journalism/)
- [Oceans](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/oceans/)
- [Oscar Wilde](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/oscar-wilde/)
- [Academy](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/academy/)
- [Alda Balthrop-Lewis](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/alda-balthrop-lewis/)
- [Tenderness](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/tenderness/)
- [Delight](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/delight/)
- [Joy](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/joy/)
- [Asceticism](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/asceticism/)
- [Just economy](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/just-economy/)
- [Grind culture](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/grind-culture/)
- [The Nap Ministry](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/the-nap-ministry/)
- [Henry David Thoreau](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/henry-david-thoreau/)
- [Black feminism](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/black-feminism/)
- [Tricia Hersey](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/tricia-hersey/)
- [Bahia Ahad-Legardy](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/bahia-ahad-legardy/)
- [adriane maree brown](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/adriane-maree-brown/)
- [Class](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/class/)
- [Settler Colonialism](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/settler-colonialism/)
- [Nomadism](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/nomadism/)
- [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/ralph-waldo-emerson/)
- [Nomadland](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/nomadland/)
- [Chloé Zhao](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/chloe-zhao/)
- [Jessica Bruder](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/jessica-bruder/)
- [Devin Zuber](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/devin-zuber/)
- [Capitalocene](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/capitalocene/)
- [Film](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/film/)
- [Migration](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/migration/)
- [Quietism](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/quietism/)
- [Gary Slater](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/gary-slater/)
- [Climate Conflict](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/climate-conflict/)
- [Violence](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/violence/)
- [Peacebuilding](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/peacebuilding/)
- [Oliver Krüger](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/oliver-kruger/)
- [Media](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/media/)
- [Enlightenment](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/enlightenment/)
- [Attention Economy](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/attention-economy/)
- [Alisi Telengut](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/alisi-telengut/)
- [Mongolia](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/mongolia/)
- [Archaeology](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/archaeology/)
- [Mary-Jane Rubenstein](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/mary-jane-rubenstein/)
- [Sylvia Wynter](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/sylvia-wynter/)
- [Keno Evol](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/keno-evol/)
- [vaccine hoarding](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/vaccine-hoarding/)
- [myth](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/myth/)
- [earth-touching mudra](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/earth-touching-mudra/)
- [Youth](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/youth/)
- [Language](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/language/)
- [Ntobo Sbo Qwabe](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/ntobo-sbo-qwabe/)
- [Lovelyn Nwadeyi](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/lovelyn-nwadeyi/)
- [Book of Revelation](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/book-of-revelation/)
- [dreamread](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/dreamread/)
- [exceptionalism](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/exceptionalism/)
- [New Jerusalem](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/new-jerusalem/)
- [Space Exploration](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/space-exploration/)
- [Space Race](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/space-race/)
- [Right Stuff](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/right-stuff/)
- [Affirmative Action](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/affirmative-action/)
- [Women’s Movement](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/womens-movement/)
- [NASA](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/nasa/)
- [STEM](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/stem/)
- [STEAM](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/steam/)
- [Wernher von Braun](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/wernher-von-braun/)
- [UNOOSA](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/unoosa/)
- [ESA](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/esa/)
- [Jan Millsapps](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/jan-millsapps/)
- [Technology](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/technology/)
- [Human-Earth Relations](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/human-earth-relations/)
- [The Art Network](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/the-art-network/)
- [Slow Violence](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/slow-violence/)
- [Apocalyptic Environmentalism](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/apocalyptic-environmentalism/)
- [Planetary Feeling](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/planetary-feeling/)
- [Eco-Affect](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/eco-affect/)
- [Jacob J. Erickson](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/jacob-j-erickson/)
- [Environmental Humanities](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/environmental-humanities/)
- [Beauty](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/beauty/)
- [Aesthetics and Ethics](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/aesthetics-and-ethics/)
- [Experience](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/experience/)
- [Transformation](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/transformation/)
- [locus vitae](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/locus-vitae/)
- [Restoration](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/restoration/)
- [Heather Eaton](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/heather-eaton/)
- [Laura Hobgood](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/laura-hobgood/)
- [Donovan Schaefer](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/donovan-schaefer/)
- [Animal Ethics](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/animal-ethics/)
- [Timescapes](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/timescapes/)
- [Planetary Community](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/planetary-community/)
- [Localism](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/localism/)
- [Automata](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/automata/)
- [Pets](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/pets/)
- [Robots](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/robots/)
- [Blackness](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/blackness/)
- [Sa'ed Atshan](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/saed-atshan/)
- [Katharina Galor](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/katharina-galor/)
- [Achille Mbembe](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/achille-mbembe/)
- [Israel-Palestine Conflict](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/israel-palestine-conflict/)
- [Leonard Cohen](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/leonard-cohen/)
- [Haiti](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/haiti/)
- [Afghanistan](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/afghanistan/)
- [Covenant](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/covenant/)
- [Broken Covenant](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/broken-covenant/)
- [Intactness](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/intactness/)
- [Leonard Cohen’s “Everybody Knows](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/leonard-cohens-everybody-knows/)
- [” Leonard Cohen’s “The Future”](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/leonard-cohens-the-future/)
- [globality](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/globality/)
- [interrelations](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/interrelations/)
- [supernaturalism](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/supernaturalism/)
- [dominion](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/dominion/)
- [individualism](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/individualism/)
- [prophecy](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/prophecy/)
- [Richard Falk](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/richard-falk/)
- [9/11](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/9-11/)
- [September 11](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/september-11/)
- [Iraq](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/iraq/)
- [realism of violence](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/realism-of-violence/)
- [Besser van der Kolk](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/besser-van-der-kolk/)
- [Social Acceleration](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/social-acceleration/)
- [Monasticism](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/monasticism/)
- [Michael Vargas](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/michael-vargas/)
- [John de Gruchy](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/john-de-gruchy/)
- [Hartmut Rosa](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/hartmut-rosa/)
- [Morgan Tomalty](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/morgan-tomalty/)
- [Solarpunk](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/solarpunk/)
- [Science Fiction](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/science-fiction/)
- [Symmetrical Anthropology](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/symmetrical-anthropology/)
- [Political Ecology](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/political-ecology/)
- [Horseshoe Politics](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/horseshoe-politics/)
- [Ritualization](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/ritualization/)
- [Community Practice](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/community-practice/)
- [Judith Butler](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/judith-butler/)
- [22 July 2011](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/22-july-2011/)
- [Palestine](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/palestine/)
- [Jenny Veninga](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/jenny-veninga/)
- [Iceland](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/iceland/)
- [Berl-Berl](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/berl-berl/)
- [Urban Landscapes](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/urban-landscapes/)
- [Jakob Kudsk Steensen](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/jakob-kudsk-steensen/)
- [Aaron French](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/aaron-french/)
- [Rudolf Steiner](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/rudolf-steiner/)
- [Max Weber](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/max-weber/)
- [Disenchantment](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/disenchantment/)
- [Monte Verità](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/monte-verita/)
- [Parareligion](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/parareligion/)
- [COP26](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/cop26/)
- [conformation](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/conformation/)
- [Advaita Vedanta](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/advaita-vedanta/)
- [busyness](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/busyness/)
- [Fundamentalism](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/fundamentalism/)
- [Integral Philosophy](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/integral-philosophy/)
- [intersectionality](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/intersectionality/)
- [faith](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/faith/)
- [theology](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/theology/)
- [A.N. Whitehead](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/a-n-whitehead/)
- [process thought](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/process-thought/)
- [creatio ex nihilo](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/creatio-ex-nihilo/)
- [creatio ad nihilum](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/creatio-ad-nihilum/)
- [creatio de profundis](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/creatio-de-profundis/)
- [John B. Cobb](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/john-b-cobb/)
- [ecological civilization](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/ecological-civilization/)
- [Immanence](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/immanence/)
- [Embodiment](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/embodiment/)
- [Environmental Justice](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/environmental-justice/)
- [Catastrophe](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/catastrophe/)
- [Decolonialism](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/decolonialism/)
- [Mayra Rivera](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/mayra-rivera/)
- [American Academy of Religion](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/american-academy-of-religion/)
- [Pandemics](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/pandemics/)
- [Skepticism](https://counterpointknowledge.org/tag/skepticism/)