A 1999 course by Jame Schaefer at Marquette University asks whether “the Christian tradition provide a rationale that will persuade human beings from destroying other species, their habitats and the greater biosphere of our planet?”
A 2011 course by Simon Appolloni at the University of Toronto employs “a variety of media and learning approaches, this course will look at various traditional religions . . . In conjunction with specific environmental issues or dimensions.”
A 2005 course by Ahmed Afzaal at Connecticut College examines “some of the ways in which religion, spirituality, ethics, culture, and science . . . . Address the crisis of environmental deterioration.”
A 2003 course by Laura Hobgood-Oster at Southwestern University examines “the position of nature (ecology, the environment, the ‘earth’) in various religious belief systems.”
A 2003 course by Paul Waldau at Tufts University addresses “the relationship between (1) values one finds commonly asserted in environmental or ecology-based discussions, and (2) values commonly found in religious traditions.”
A 2010 course by Pankaj Jain at the University of North Texas studies “how members of different religious communities in South Asia have conceptualized nature and the relationship between humans, the divine, and the natural world.”