Stephen Scharper

Stephen Scharper teaches in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto at Mississauga. His areas of research include religious ethics and the environment, religion and social movements, biotechnology, human rights, and globalization. He has a BA and MA from the University of Toronto, and a PhD from McGill. His publications include “Option for the Earth and Option for the Poor: Toward a New Environmental Ethic” and “Finding Our Place: The Ecological Impetus to a New Ontology.”

Selected publications

“Option for the Earth and Option for the Poor: Toward a New Environmental Ethic” (forthcoming)
“Finding Our Place: The Ecological Impetus to a New Ontology” (forthcoming)
“Philip J. Scharper and the Editorial Vocation: Publishing Ideas of Consequence” (2003)
“Christianity and Ecological Awareness” (2002)
“Green Dreams: Religious Cosmologies and the Common Good” (2002)
The Green Bible (update of 1993 Version; co-author) (2002)
“Democracy, Cosmology, and The Great Work of Thomas Berry” (2001)
“The Ecological Crisis” (1999)
Redeeming the Time: A Political Theology of the Environment (1997)
“Patenting the Primitive: Reflections on the Human Genome Project” (co-author, 1996)

Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto at Mississauga
BA, MA (Toronto), PhD (McGill)

Room 218 North Building
tel: (905) 569-4912
email: stephen.scharper@utoronto.ca