I always appreciate hearing more about the intersections of religion and ecology. Here are two of the leaders in the field, Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim, accepting the inaugural award in Our Joint and Common Future from UMass (details here).
Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim receive Our Joint and Common Future Award
September 24, 2013 by 2 Comments
the anthropo.scene 
I’m sure there are some anthropological roots to our current trends in purity rituals:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-09/cioe-apf091913.php#
Yes, and in the resurgence of ‘political theology’ after the political resources of liberalism have been spent.