This article, using colonial New Zealand as a case-study, and integrating environment, empire and religion into a single analytic framework, contends that Christian and environmental discourses interpenetrated and interacted in irreducibly complex ways during the long nineteenth century.

In his paper, Simon P. James reconsiders Buddhist envrionmental ethics.

Handley’s article for the Special Commentary section explores Pope Francis’s Laudato si’, questioning the postsecularity of the environmental humanities and the continued dismissal of spiritual and religious discourse in the context of establishing an environmental ethos.

An analysis of the book Gun Island by Amitav Ghosh.