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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
When strangers find out that I’m from North Dakota, I get a few stock responses. People will ask me if I’m from Fargo (I’m not; I’m from an area called South Prairie, rural Minot) and then they might…
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Religion Dispatches
Earlier this year, I sit in the passenger seat of a land rover with my partner driving down a dusty dirt road. We’re traversing our way through Kenya’s Maasai Mara National Reserve. We’re camping, our…
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Religion Dispatches
In a brief article in an unassuming 1967 edition of Science, a medieval historian from the University of California argued a now infamous thesis in my own field of religion and ecology. “Christianity…
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