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Rose Mayer & Mason Kirkpatrick Background Rose and myself are investigating what we call the “anglocene,” which we define as the influence of Judeo-Christian based religions and Anglo Saxon influences on environmental philosophy, through the lens of Lynn White’s “The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis.” Our situated study is centered in South Korea, which does not have a prominent Anglo Saxon population, but nearly a third of South Korea’s population identifies as being of a Judeo-Christian faith. The question that encompasses our research is “how did South Korea, a country without a prominent Anglo Saxon population, develop such a large community devoted to Anglo Saxon theologies?” At face value this situating question seems to be quite detached from environmental philosophy but, it begs the question that if Anglo Saxon theology can be established in a non-Anglo Saxon nation what other philosophies were brought along with it? Procedure In order to support our project, we needed articles to understand the Christian presence in Korea as well as investigate White's claim of environmental degradation linking with Christian belief. To do this, we used Google Scholar to research the history of Korea's religious affiliation as well as the relationship between ecological health and Christianity. To research Korea's religious history we used keywords such as "missionary presence", "religion", "religious colonization", and "christianity" in relation to Korea to discover writing that situates our project. To research White's argument we searched with keywords like "ecology and religion", "religion and development", "religion and nature", as well as review pieces of White's writing. After we had found pieces that effectively frame and situate the subject of our project we used the Zotero plugin to add the material to our own group dedicated to the project. After uploading our documents onto Zotero we added the abstracts, some of which were supplied by the author, as well as an annotation on how these pieces were related to our project. Finally, we organized our pieces by adding tags that quickly identify whether the piece was situating or framing. Our Zotero library can be found below. www.zotero.org/groups/2255227/mason_and_rose_situation_research Discussion Finding these resources made me feel incredibly confident about our project since it solidified our hypothesis on the connection between religion and ecological health. I have grown to realize the extent to which religious colonization has shaped Korea as a nation through history and how it has affected Korea as we know it today. The bibliography lab has given us an abundance of context that is useful for the coming steps of this project like the situating and framing questions. By understanding the religious history of Korea alongside the environmental history of religion we have created a solid foundation for further research. Our next steps in this project is to find a way to adequately and informatively connect these two concepts in a way that accurately depicts the geological epoch.
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