A new book of essays on the meaning of Avatar, is a down-in-the-dirt wrestling match between those who resonate with it and those who hate a film that’s been labeled pro-civilization and anti-civilization, pro-science and anti-science, un-American and too American, feminist and misogynistic, leftist and neoconservative, and pagan, atheistic, theistic, and animistic.
Bron Taylor
Bron Taylor is a specialist in environmental and social ethics, and regarding the complex relationships among religions, cultures, and environments. He is a core faculty member in the Graduate Program in Religion and Nature at the University of Florida and Fellow of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in Munich, Germany. His most recent books are Dark Green Religion: Nature Spirituality and the Planetary Future (UC Press, 2010), and Avatar and Nature Spirituality (WLU Press, 2013).
