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Mary Evelyn Tucker
Environmental Ethicist in Residence,
Graduate
Theological Union, UC Berkeley
Forum on Religion and Ecology
Berkeley, CA
Mary Evelyn Tucker is co-founder and co-director of the Forum on Religion and Ecology. With John Grim, she organized a series of ten conferences on World Religions and Ecology at the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School. They are series editors for the ten volumes from the conferences distributed by Harvard University Press. They are also editors for a series on Ecology and Justice from Orbis Press.
Dr. Tucker is the author of Worldly Wonder: Religions Enter Their Ecological Phase (Open Court Press, 2003), Moral and Spiritual Cultivation in Japanese Neo-Confucianism (SUNY 1989) and The Philosophy of Qi (forthcoming, Columbia University Press). She co-edited Worldviews and Ecology (Orbis, 1994), Buddhism and Ecology (Harvard, 1997), Confucianism and Ecology (Harvard, 1998), and Hinduism and Ecology (Harvard, 2000) and When Worlds Converge (Open Court, 2002). With Tu Weiming she edited two volumes on Confucian Spirituality (Crossroad, 2003, 2004). She also co-edited a Daedalus volume titled Religion and Ecology: Can the Climate Change? (2001). She edited Evening Thoughts: Reflecting on the Earth as Sacred Community (Sierra Club and University of California Press, 2006)
Dr. Tucker received her PhD from Columbia University in East Asian religions with a concentration in Confucianism in China and Japan. Until 2005 she was a professor of religion at Bucknell University where she taught courses in Asian religions and Religion and Ecology. From 1993-1996 she was a National Endowment for the Humanities Chair at Bucknell.
Mary Evelyn is a Research Associate at the Harvard-Yenching Institute and the Reischauer Institute at Harvard. Since 1987 she has been a member of the Interfaith Partnership for the Environment at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). She served on the International Earth Charter Drafting Committee from 1997-2000 and is now a member of the Earth Charter International Council.