Articles by Dusty Hoesly
Nova Religio, 2019
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Biodiversity and Health in the Face of Climate Change, 2019
Among government agencies, practitioners and researchers there is growing interest in the potenti... more Among government agencies, practitioners and researchers there is growing interest in the potential of natural environments for human health and well-being. In parallel, conserving biodiversity is seen as critical in this effort. Likewise, spiritual well-being is increasingly considered as an important dimension of human health. This chapter examines the interrelationship between biodiversity and spiritual well-being. We first consider what spiritual well-being is. Then, based on a review of literature, we discuss four themes that illustrate biodiversity and spiritual well-being relationships, including: (i) influence of spiritual traditions on biodiversity ; (ii) sacred places as repositories of biodiversity; (iii) the spiritual domain within ecosystems services; and (iv) the effects of biodiversity on spiritual well-being. We bring these strands together in a conceptual model and discussion of measurement issues that can inform future research.
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Organized Secularism in the United States: New Directions in Research, 2017
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Secularism & Nonreligion, Oct 23, 2015
National media outlets have observed that weddings in the United States, especially for young edu... more National media outlets have observed that weddings in the United States, especially for young educated people, are increasingly performed by ministers who are friends or relatives of the couple and who become ordained online just for that purpose. The primary organization licensing these ministers, and thus authorizing these weddings as legally valid, is the Universal Life Church (ULC), which has ordained over 20 million people since 1962. To date, there has been no focused study of the ULC or lifecycle rituals conducted under its auspices. According to my original survey, interview, and participant observation data, both ULC ministers and the couples who engage them typically self-describe as non-religious, usually as spiritual, seekers, humanist, or generically “not religious.” Similarly, they describe their weddings in “non-religious” terms, emphasizing the personalization of the ceremony to match their particular beliefs and tastes as well as the conscious exclusion of most “religious” language. These “secular” or “spiritual” wedding ceremonies reveal non-religious couples’ desires for an alternative apart from bureaucratic civil ceremonies or traditional religious rites. This article explains why “secular” people select ULC ministers for their weddings, how ULC ministers see themselves as “non-religious” while being members of a legally-recognized religion, and how ULC ministers and couples married by them label and valuate their “non-religious,” personalized wedding ceremonies. My examination of ULC membership and weddings reveals not only the diversity of non-theistic self-identification and lifecycle ritualization, but also how constructs such as “religious” and “secular” can be co-constitutive rather than purely oppositional.
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Proceedings of the IX Symposium Platonicum: Plato’s Politeia, vol. 2 , 2011
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Encyclopedia Entries by Dusty Hoesly
World Religions and Spirituality Project, 2020
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Ghosts, Spirits, and Psychics: The Paranormal from Alchemy to Zombies, 2015
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Encyclopedia of Global Religion, 2012
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Book Reviews by Dusty Hoesly
Religion, 2022
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Religion, 2018
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Religion, Aug 2016
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Reading Religion, Jul 8, 2016
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Religion, Oct 16, 2014
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Practical Matters, May 4, 2013
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Religion, Jun 21, 2012
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Public Writing by Dusty Hoesly
Anxious Bench [Patheos], 2020
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Event Report: The American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting 2014, Mar 13, 2015
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Better Know an Archive: UCSB’s American Religions Collection, Jun 16, 2014
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Review of Theater in a Crowded Fire: Ritual and Spirituality at Burning Man, by Lee Gilmore, Jun 3, 2013
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Religion, Secularism, and the Chaplaincy, Apr 24, 2013
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