Fighting 21st Century Fascism

Jacob J. Erickson

Jacob J. Erickson is Assistant Professor in Theology, Ecology, and Ethics in the School of Religion, Theology, and Peace Studies at Trinity College Dublin. He teaches on the School’s innovative MPhil program in Theology and Social Justice. His most recent publication can be found within Thinking with Plants and Fungi (Harvard University Press, 2026).

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Religion Dispatches

A Celebration of the Mysterious Depth of Human Life, Magnifica Humanitas Misses an Opportunity

If this encyclical advances our moral conversation about technology, it ignores conversations about what it means to be a diverse human family.
Watching Pope Leo XIV announce and release the first encyclical letter of his papacy last week felt achingly surreal. In our age of rapid technology, livestreaming and immediate access build an aura…
Jacob J. Erickson
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Religion Dispatches

Insecto-Theology: A Wake for Our Planetary Commons

Given the amount of information we process on a day-to-day basis, paying attention to minutiae is difficult. The small things pass us by; we miss detail and texture. Given news and ecological change…
Jacob J. Erickson
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Religion Dispatches

“I Worship Jesus, Not Mother Earth”: American Christian Exceptionalism and the Paris Withdrawal

Slow violence. That’s how Rob Nixon, scholar of environmental humanities, describes the changes inflicted by a warming world. Many ecological harms occur over expanded senses of human time, often…
Jacob J. Erickson
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