Ticklish Gaia and the Falling Sky with Prof. Graham Harvey

Come and enjoy an insight into how we can learn from others in our stewardship of our Earth.  Professor Graham Harvey, an expert in relationships between religion and ecology, will be giving a talk on how Indigenous peoples encourage respectful relationships with the places and larger-than-human communities within which they live.

Despite being a minority of Earth’s human population, the lands Indigenous people control are often the most ecologically healthy globally. Examples of Indigenous “wisdom that sits in places” invite reflection on how ticklish or even irritable Gaia has become, and how threatening the collapse of her ecologies are. We cannot shop or fight our way out of impending catastrophe, but better etiquettes or behaviours towards the places and planet with which we too are relations might benefit all life.

This is a free event that takes place inside the Abbey as part of the general visitor experience that afternoon.  General entrance to the Abbey is £4 per adult and £1 per child.

You can book your tickets online or pay on the door on the day.

Graham Harvey is Emeritus Professor of Religious Studies at the Open University, UK. His research among Jews, Pagans and Indigenous peoples has often focused on relationships between religion(s) and ecology. His most recent publications engage with the “new animism”.