Teaching Personnel

Eaton, Heather   Eaton, Heather
Full Professor
Program: Spirituality
Office : 358
613-236-1393 ext. : 2276
heaton@ustpaul.ca

Research Activities : *

Religion and ecology; Feminism; Interreligious collaboration; Contemporary religious and spiritual insights and issues

Education :

Ph.D. in Theology and Ecology; University of Saint Michael's College, Toronto, 1996.
Master's of Divinity, University of Saint Michael's College, University of Toronto, 1988.
BA, Queen's University, Kingston, 1983.
Member of the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies.

Courses taught : *

Feminist Ethics and Liberation Theologies
Feminist Theologies and Spiritualities
Religion, Culture and Diversity

Publications : *

  • Introducing Ecofeminist Theologies (London: T & T Clark, 2005)

  • Worldviews: Environnent, Culture, Religion. Special Issue: “Evolution,” Spring 2007. Guest editor

  • Ecotheology 11.4 , “Gender, Religion and Ecology,” Guest editor, December 2006.

  • Ecofeminism and Globalization: Exploring Religion, Culture, Context, eds. Heather Eaton and Lois Ann Lorentzen (Roman and Littlefield, 2003).

  • Worldviews : Environment, Culture, Religion, 5, 2001. Special Issue: “Thomas Berry”. Guest editor.

  • Ecotheology 6, July 2001 and January 2002, editors N. Habel, G. Cant and H. Eaton.
  • “Oh Canada! Our Home and Native Land: Nature and Identity within Canadian Feminist Theologies,” in Feminist Theology with a Canadian Accent: Canadian Perspectives on Contextual Feminist Theology, eds. Mary Ann Beavis, Elaine Guillemin and Barbara Pell, (Novalis: 2008).

  • “At the Intersection of Ecofeminism and Religion: Directions for Consideration,” reprinted with permission in Religion and Canadian Society: Traditions, Transitions and Innovations. ed., Lori Beaman, (Toronto: Canadian Scholars Press, 2006), p. 242-254.

  • “Child Honouring and Religion: Insights and Issues” in Child Honouring: How to Turn this World Around, eds. Raffi Cavoukian and Sharna Olfman, (Westport: Praeger Publisher, 2006), p. 71-80.

  • “A Vision of Transformation: Ecofeminist Spiritualities in Canada” in This Elusive Land: Women and the Canadian Environment, eds Rebecca Raglon, Melody Hessing and Catriona Sandilands (Vancouver: University of British Columbia, 2004), p. 300-315.

  • “A Critical Viewpoints of Ecotheology in Canada” in Intersecting Voices: Critical Theologies in a Land of Diversity, eds. D. Schweitzer and D.Simon (Ottawa: Novalis, 2004), p. 246-265.

  • “Celebration of the Earth: The Ecotheology Contribution of Rosemary Radford Ruether, in (WorkingTitle): Honouring Rosemary Radford Ruether (under review by publisher)

  • “Can Ecofeminism withstand Globalization?” in Ecofeminism and Globalization, ed. Heather Eaton and Lois Ann Lorentzen (Roman and Littlefield, 2003), p. 23-37.

  • “Perspectives nord-américain sur l'écofeminisme.” in Pour libére la théologie: variations autour de la pensée d'Ivone Gebara, ed. P. Daviau (Montreal: Les Presses de l'Université Laval, 2002), p. 189-202.

  • “Biotechnology: Theological and Ethical Resources,” in Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering: Current Issues, Ethics and Theological Reflections, Taskforce: Churches and Corporate Responsibility (Toronto: United Church of Canada, 2000), p. 64-82.

  • “Ecofeminist Contributions to an Ecojustice Hermeneutics” in Earth Bible, ed. Norman Habel (London: Sheffield Press, 2000), p. 54-71.

  • "Ecofeminism and Theology: Challenges, Confrontations and Reconstructions," in Christianity and Ecology: Wholeness, Respect, Justice, Sustainability, eds. Dieter Hessel and Rosemary Radford Ruether (Cambridge: Harvard Centre for the Study of World Religions, 2000) p. 113-124.

  • "Ecofeminist Theology" in Theology for Earth Community, ed. D. Hessel (Maryknoll: Orbis, 1996), p.77-92.

  • “The Revolution of Evolution,” Worldviews: Environment, Culture, Religion 11, 1, Spring 2007, p. 6-31.

  • “This Sacred Earth: At the Nexus of Religion, Ecology and Politics,” Sciences Pastorales, 2004, p. 35-54.

  • “Ecology, Religion and Healing,” Theoforum, 34, 2003, 109 -128.

  • “Cosmological Ethics? The Great Work” in Worldviews: Special Issue on Thomas Berry, August 2001, p. 157-169.

  • “At the Intersection of Ecofeminism and Religion: Directions for Consideration,” in Ecotheology 6, July 2001 - Jan.2002, p. 75-91.

  • “Ecofeminist Ethics: Utopic Conversations,” in Ecotheology 8, 2000, p. 40 -57.

  • “Ecofeminism and Globalization,” in Journal for Feminist Theology, May 2000, p. 41-55

  • “Ecofeminist Liberation Theologies,” Series A: General and Theoretical Papers, # 478, ISSN 1435-6473, Universität Gesamthochschule, Essen: LAUD, 1999, p. 1-16.

  • “Feminist or Functional Cosmology? Ecofeminist Musings on Thomas Berry's Functional Cosmology,” in Ecotheology, 5 and 6, 1998, p. 73-94.

  • “The Edge of the Sea: The Colonization of Ecofeminist Religious Perspectives,” Critical Review of Books in Religion, 11, 1998, p. 57-82.

  • "Ecofeminism, Cosmology and Spiritual Renewal," Église et Théologie, 29, p. 115-128, 1998.

  • "Earth's Insights and Inadequacies" Worldviews: Environment, Culture, Religion 1, 1997, p. 113-122.

  • "Liaison or Liability: Weaving Spirituality into Ecofeminist Politics," Atlantis 21, 1, 1997, p. 109-122.

  • "Rwanda: Survival of the Dominant,", ed. D. Hessel in Theology and Public Policy: Population, Consumption and the Environment: Case Studies in Ethics, VIII, 1 & 2, 1996, p.80-94.

  • “Ecofeminist Spiritualities: Seeking the Wild or the Sacred," Alternatives: Perspectives on Society, Technology and Environment,"21, 2, April/May, 1995, p. 28-32.

  • Notre planète en état d'urgence, Congrès Entreaide Minssionaire, Montreal 2000, p.31-37.



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