Anna L. Peterson

About

Anna L. Peterson works with students in the MA and PhD programs in Religion in the Americas and Religion and Nature. She serves as an outside member on graduate committees in various departments including Anthropology, History, Political Science, and Sociology, among others. She is also an affiliate of the School of Natural Resources, the Center for Latin American Studies, the Tropical Conservation and Development Program, and the Center for Gender, Sexualities, and Women's Studies Research, and collaborates with graduate students in these areas. Her advising encompasses a wide range of topics, including the religious and ethical dimensions of fly fishing, Muslim agrarianism, sanctuary churches, food ethics, charismatic Christianity in the Americas, and the concept of the 'mixed community' in Mary Midgley. She generally serves as an outside member for graduate students who have taken a class with her and work in fields related to her areas of interest, which include environmental ethics, social ethics, religion and social change, religion in Latin America, animal studies, and social movements. She is open to meeting with potential graduate students in religion and other departments at UF.

Research topics

• Sociology
• Political Science
• Ecology
• Law
• Philosophy
• Environmental ethics
• Epistemology
• Social psychology
• Religious studies
• Biology

Selected publications

• Cats and Conservationists

  2020 · 14 citations

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  Cats and Conservationists is the first multidisciplinary analysis of the heated debate about free-roaming cats. The debate pits conservationists against cat lovers, who disagree both on the ecological damage caused by the cats and the best way to manage them. An impassioned and spirited conflict, it also sheds light on larger questions about how we interpret science, incorporate diverse perspectives, and balance competing values in order to encourage constructive dialogue on contentious social a…

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• Association of Religious End Time Beliefs with Attitudes toward Climate Change and Biodiversity Loss

  Sustainability · 2023 · 11 citations

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  Mobilizing communities for environmental sustainability often involves engaging with religious values and beliefs, which can exert powerful influences on the attitudes, norms, and behaviors of the majority of people worldwide. Christianity is the largest world religion and, in some contexts, has also been among the most skeptical of climate and environmental concerns. A popular explanation for this skepticism focuses on eschatological views (i.e., end time beliefs) and posits that if the earth i…

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• The Zoological Marx

  Capitalism Nature Socialism · 2022-07-03 · 2 citations

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  This essay explores the ways that Marxian categories of alienation, labor, and class can strengthen critiques of human exploitation of other animals. Marxist insights are valuable in particular because they point our attention to the structural dimensions of oppression, which are not always theorized explicitly in mainstream animal ethics. Thinking about animals as a class, with common interests and common suffering, enables us to see suffering and exploitation as results of a larger system, not…

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• Ethics and Human–Animal Relations: Review Essay

  Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics · 2021 · 2 citations

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• Theorizing Religion, Social Movements, and Social Change

  2022-03-30 · 1 citations

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  Religion plays various public roles. It often supports the established power, both practically and symbolically. In other situations, however, religious traditions and communities challenge the status quo. This chapter analyzes the distinctive ways that religion contributes to movements for social change. The author begins by analyzing different approaches in the sociology of religion that illuminate the ways that religion either bolsters or undermines the established order. Then the specific wa…

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Frequent coauthors

• Manuel A. Vásquez

  5 shared

• James Woodward

  Sarum College

  4 shared

• Meagan Troop

  2 shared

• Jeff Astley

  Bishop Grosseteste University

  2 shared

• Doug Chaplin

  Diocese of Brooklyn

  2 shared

• Ian Durrant

  Canterbury Christ Church University

  2 shared

• Julia Brook

  2 shared

• Рена Упитис

  2 shared

Education

• Ph.D., Ethics and Society

  University of Chicago Divinity School

• B.A., Religious Studies

  U.C. Berkeley

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