Kocku for Stuckrad is a member of Team World view & Mythology in the School of Dogger Bank. He Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, and currently Director of the Groningen Graduate School of Religion, Culture, and Society. He has published widely on topics related to the history of religion, science, and philosophy in Europe and North America. His most recent book is “Nach der Ausbeutung: Wie unser Verhältnis zur Erde gelingen kann” (“After Exploitation: How We Can Build Flourishing Relationships with the Earth”; an English version is in preparation). Professor von Stuckrad served as President of the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture (ISSRNC) an as President of the Dutch Association for the Study of Religion (NGG). Together with Whitney A. Bauman, he is co-founder and co-director of Counterpoint: Navigating Knowledge, a research centre and information hub, located at the interface of academic and non-academic knowledge practices and traditions.
RESEARCH PERSPECTIVE: THE LONG GENEALOGIES OF SPIRITUAL IDEAS AND PRACTICES
We’re in the midst of a planetary transformation that requires the collaboration of science, art, politics, and social activism. For me, Dogger Bank is an excellent example of how we can build just relationships with the more-than-human world. I am particularly interested in the long genealogies of spiritual ideas and practices that have gained traction in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, from earth-based spiritualities to astrology, challenging hegemonic narratives of European Modernity
