{"id":19,"date":"2012-09-05T11:22:25","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T15:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/template\/?page_id=19"},"modified":"2026-03-19T08:22:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:22:56","slug":"publications","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/annap\/publications\/","title":{"rendered":"Research and publications"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<section class=\"fullwidth-text-block\">\r\n\t<div class=\"container px-0 pt-5\">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"row align-items-start\">\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col-12\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Research and publications<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Books<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.degruyter.com\/document\/doi\/10.1515\/9783111235387\/html?lang=en\"><em>With God on Our Side: Religion, Social Movements, and Social Change<\/em><\/a>. De Gruyter, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.degruyter.com\/document\/cover\/isbn\/9783111235387\/product_pages\" alt=\"book: With God on Our Side\" style=\"width:200px;height:auto\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/global.oup.com\/academic\/product\/works-righteousness-9780197532232?cc=us&amp;lang=en&amp;\"><em>Works Righteousness: Material Practice in Ethical Theory<\/em>.<\/a>\u00a0 Oxford University Press, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/annap\/files\/Works-righteousness.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-317\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-317 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/annap\/files\/Works-righteousness-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/annap\/files\/Works-righteousness-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/annap\/files\/Works-righteousness-200x304.jpg 200w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/annap\/files\/Works-righteousness-300x456.jpg 300w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/annap\/files\/Works-righteousness.jpg 362w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepress.purdue.edu\/titles\/format\/9781557538871\">Cats and Conservationists:\u00a0 The Debate Over Who Owns the Outdoors<\/a>.\u00a0 <\/em>With Dara Wald. Purdue University Press, 2020.\u00a0 In the series \u201cNew Directions in the Human-Animal Bond.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Religion-and-Ecological-Crisis-The-Lynn-White-Thesis-at-Fifty\/LeVasseur-Peterson\/p\/book\/9781138386112\"><em>Religion and Ecological Crisis: The \u201cLynn White Thesis\u201d At 50<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 Co-edited with Todd LeVasseur.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Routledge, 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cup.columbia.edu\/book\/being-animal\/9780231162272\"><em>Being Animal: Beasts and Boundaries in Nature Ethics<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Columbia University Press, 2013.\u00a0 In the series \u201cCritical Perspectives on Animals: Theory, Culture, Science, and Law.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiley.com\/en-us\/Working+Toward+Sustainability%3A+Ethical+Decision+Making+in+a+Technological+World-p-9780470539729\">Working Toward Sustainability:\u00a0 Ethical Decision Making in a Technological World<\/a>.<\/em>\u00a0 With Charles Kibert, Martha Monroe, Richard Plate, and Leslie Paul Thiele.\u00a0 Hoboken: John Wiley, 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cup.columbia.edu\/book\/everyday-ethics-and-social-change\/9780231148726\"><em>Everyday Ethics and Social Change:\u00a0 The Education of Desire<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Columbia University Press, 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>* A <em>Choice<\/em> Outstanding Academic Book of 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nyupress.org\/9780814767313\/latin-american-religions\/\"><em>Latin American Religions: Histories and Documents in Context<\/em><\/a>. Edited and with introductions, with Manuel V\u00e1squez. New York: New York University Press, 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oxford.universitypressscholarship.com\/view\/10.1093\/0195183339.001.0001\/acprof-9780195183337\"><em>Seeds of the Kingdom: Utopian Communities in the Americas.<\/em><\/a> New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucpress.edu\/book\/9780520226555\/being-human\"><em>Being Human: Ethics, Environment, and Our Place in the World<\/em>.<\/a>\u00a0 Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.degruyter.com\/rutgers\/view\/title\/563864\"><em>Christianity, Social Change, and Globalization in the Americas<\/em><\/a>. Co-edited with Manuel V\u00e1squez and Philip Williams. New Brunswick, N.J.:\u00a0 Rutgers University Press, 2001.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sunypress.edu\/p-2469-martyrdom-and-the-politics-of-r.aspx\">Martyrdom and the Politics of Religion: Progressive Catholicism in El Salvador\u2019s Civil War<\/a>.<\/em> Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997. Second printing, October 2001.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>* A <em>Choice<\/em> outstanding academic book of 1997<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Selected articles and book chapters<\/h3>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"size-medium alignright is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/annap\/files\/pete16226_cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/annap\/files\/pete16226_cover-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"pete16226_cover\" class=\"wp-image-220\" style=\"width:200px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/annap\/files\/pete16226_cover-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/annap\/files\/pete16226_cover-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/annap\/files\/pete16226_cover-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/annap\/files\/pete16226_cover-300x450.jpg 300w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/annap\/files\/pete16226_cover.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>(Please visit my <a href=\"https:\/\/florida.academia.edu\/AnnaPeterson\">academia.edu<\/a> site for links to many articles and chapters.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEthics in the Public Sphere.\u201d In <em>The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Doing Ethics<\/em>, ed. Timothy Weidel and Alan Preti. Wiley-Blackwell, 2026 (in press).<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIdeas, Activism, and Social Change.\u201d <em>Radical Philosophy Review<\/em>. In press for 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAssociation of Religious End Time Beliefs with Attitudes Toward Climate Change and Biodiversity Loss.\u201d With Benjamin Lowe (lead author), Susan Jacobson, and Glenn Israel. <em>Sustainability<\/em> (2023).<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTheorizing Social Movement Practices.\u201d With Christopher Lomel\u00edn. <em>The Journal of Social Encounters<\/em> 7, no. 2 (2023): 209-226.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cReligion and the Possibility of a Materialist Environmental Ethic.\u201d <em>Environmental Ethics<\/em> 44, no. 3 (2022).<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Zoological Marx.\u201d <em>Capitalism, Nature, Socialism<\/em> (2022). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/10455752.2021.1966485\">Published online<\/a> July 5, 2022. DOI: <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/10455752.2021.1966485\">10.1080\/10455752.2021.1966485<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTheorizing Religion, Social Movements, and Social Change.\u201d In <em>Religion in Rebellions, Revolutions and Social Movements<\/em>, ed. Jean-Pierre Reed and Warren S. Goldstein. Routledge, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEthics and Human-Animal Relations.\u201d <em>Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics<\/em> 34, no. 23 (2021).<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cProblem Animals.\u201d <em>Environmental Ethics<\/em>, 41, no. 2 (2020): 129-141.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMaterial Religion, Materialism, and Non-Human Animals.\u201d In <em>The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Religion and Materiality<\/em>, ed. Vasudha Narayanan. Cambridge: Blackwell Press, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cReligion and Animals.\u201d\u00a0 In <em>The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Religion and Materiality<\/em>, ed. Vasudha Narayanan. Cambridge:\u00a0 Blackwell Press, 2020).<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cCanine Rescue as a Social Movement: The Politics of Love.\u201d Society &amp; Animals 26 (2018).<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cProgressive Catholicism.\u201d\u00a0 With Manuel Vasquez.\u00a0 In <em>The Cambridge History of Latin America<\/em>, ed. Stephen Dove and Virginia Garrard-Burnett (Cambridge:\u00a0 Cambridge University Press, 2016).<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLatin America\u2019s Religious Landscape.\u201d\u00a0 In <em>The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Ecology<\/em>, eds. John Grim, Willis Jenkins, and Mary Evelyn Tucker ( Routledge, 2016).<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cReligion, Local Community, and Sustainable Agriculture.\u201d\u00a0 In <em>Sustainable Agriculture and the World\u2019s Religious Traditions<\/em>, ed. Todd LeVasseur, Pramod Parajuli, and Norman Wirzba.\u00a0 University Press of Kentucky, 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cClimate Change and the Right to Hope.\u201d\u00a0 Invited article for special issue on \u201cThe Place of Hope in an Age of Climate Disaster.\u201d\u00a0 <em>Tikkun<\/em>, Spring 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFoundations of Conduct: A Theory of Values and Its Implications for Environmentalism.\u201d\u00a0 With William Jordan III, Nathaniel F. Barrett, Kip Curtis, Liam Henneghan, Randall Honold, Todd LeVasseur, Leslie Paul Thiele, and Gretel Van Wieren.\u00a0 <em>Environmental Ethics<\/em> 34 (2012): 291-312.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cRecreate, Relate, Decenter:\u00a0 Environmental Ethics and Domestic Animals.\u201d\u00a0 In\u00a0 <em>&#8220;Placing&#8221; Nature on the Borders of Religion, Philosophy and Ethics<\/em>, ed. Mark Dixon and Forrest Clingerman.\u00a0 Ashgate Press, 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOrdinary and Extraordinary Sacrifices: Religion, Everyday Life, and Environmental Practice.\u201d In The Environmental Politics of Sacrifice, ed. Michael Maniates and John Meyer.\u00a0 Cambridge, Mass.:\u00a0 MIT Press, 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOscar Romero and the Politics of Sainthood.\u201d\u00a0 With Manuel A. V\u00e1squez.\u00a0 Postscripts: The Journal of Sacred Texts and Contemporary Worlds, 5, no. 3 (2009) 265\u2013291.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIgnorance and Ethics.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 In <em>The Virtues of Ignorance: Complexity, Sustainability, and the Limits of Knowledge<\/em>, ed. Wes Jackson and Bill Vitek.\u00a0 Lexington:\u00a0 University Press of Kentucky, 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMartyrdom, Sacrifice, and Political Memory in Central America.\u201d\u00a0 With Brandt G. Peterson.\u00a0<em> Social Research<\/em> 75 (Summer 2008): 511-542.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"size-full aligncenter is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/annap\/files\/Being-Human.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/annap\/files\/Being-Human.jpg\" alt=\"Being Human\" class=\"wp-image-222\" style=\"width:150px;height:auto\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":415,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-19","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/annap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/annap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/annap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/annap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/415"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/annap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/annap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":391,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/annap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions\/391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/annap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}