India and protesting agri-business. Other contemporary inter-disciplinary environmentalists include Wendell Berry, a farmer, poet, and academic living in Kentucky, who fights for small farms and criticizes agri-business; and Satish Kumar, a former Jain monk and founder of Schumacher College, a center for ecological studies. Opposing views Although the May 2015 Encyclical from Pope Francis brought the importance of the subject spiritual ecology to the fore of mainstream contemporary culture, it is a point of view that is not widely used in the work of mainstream environmentalists and ecologists. Academic research on the subject has also generated some criticism.<ref>See also Sponsel, Leslie E. Religion, nature and environmentalism Encyclopedia of the Earth, published July 2, 2007 (updated March 2013).</ref> Ken Wilber has criticized spiritual ecology, suggesting that "spiritually oriented deep ecologists" fail to acknowledge the transcendent aspect of the divine, or hierarchical cosmologies, and thus exclude an important aspect of spirituality, as well as presenting what Wilber calls a one-dimensional "flat land" ontology in which the sacred in nature is wholly immanent. But Wilber's views are also criticized as not including an in-depth understanding of indigenous spirituality. See also Cultural ecology Deep ecology Ecopsychology Ecospirituality Religion and environmentalism Resacralization of nature Ecofeminism Animism References Further reading Abram, David, The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-than-Human World. Pantheon Books, New York, 1996 Abram, David, Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology. Vintage Books, New York, 2011 Beresford-Kroeger, Diana, The Global Forest: Forty Ways Trees Can Save Us. Penguin Books, 2011. Berry, Thomas, The Dream of the Earth. Sierra Club Books, San Francisco, 1988. Berry, Thomas, The Sacred Universe. Essays edited by Mary Evelyn Tucker. Columbia University Press, New York, 2009. Hayden, Thomas, The Lost Gospel of the Earth. Sierra Club Books, San Francisco, 1996. Jung, C.G., The Earth Has A Soul, The Nature Writings of C.G. Jung. North Atlantic Books, Berkeley, 2002. Koehrsen, Jens, "Religious agency in sustainability transitions: Between experimentation, upscaling, and regime support", in: Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions 27, p. 4–15. Laszlo, Ervin & Allan Coombs (eds.), Thomas Berry, Dreamer of the Earth: The Spiritual Ecology of the Father of Environmentalism. Inner Traditions, Rochester, 2011. Livingstone, Glenys, Pagaian Cosmology: Re-inventing Earth Based Goddess Religion. iUniverse, Inc, 2008. Macy, Joanna, World as Lover, World as Self. Parallax Press, Berkeley, 2007. McFarland Taylor, Sarah, Green Sisters: A Spiritual Ecology. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA. Nelson, Melissa (ed.), Original Instructions, Indigenous