The lecture by Bron Taylor (Professor at the University of Florida, Gainesville), takes place within the workshop "Dark Green Religion in Europe: History and Impacts, Dangers and Prospects" (April, 25–27, 2024). Bron Taylor is also taking part in the IEG's Senior Research Programme. Venue: Naturhistorisches Museum Mainz, Reichklarastr. 1. In recent decades museum curators across the world have been fusing art, science, and nature spirituality to promote proenvironmental attitudes and behaviors. Many exhibitions, temporary or permanent, invoke and advance nature spiritualities that could be called ‘dark green,’ i.e., they involve animistic perceptions and kinship feelings toward non-human organisms and eco-organicist or “Gaian” worldviews that regard planet Earth as a living, interdependent superorganism. They also typically express notions that nature has intrinsic value as expressed in “biocentric” or “ecocentric” ethics. The presentation will examine exhibitions across Europe to analyze how far they echo longstanding religious and mystical perceptions while enriching and reinforcing them with scientific understandings. It will query the intended audiences which these exhibitions and the curators behind them seek to address, and it will be asked in how far these venues function as shrines and pilgrimage sites for those sharing deep feelings of belonging and connection to nature. Do museum exhibitions have the potential to accelerate the spread of science-based, dark green spiritualities around the world? Bron Taylor is Professor of Religion and Environmental Ethics at the University of Florida. An interdisciplinary environmental studies scholar, he explores through the lenses of the sciences and humanities the complex relationships and influences among worldviews, values, ideologies, and socioecological systems. In 2017 he was recognized with a Lifetime Achievement award by the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture. Contact: Bernhard Gissibl E-Mail: gissibl@ieg-mainz.de Bron Taylor E-Mail: bron@ufl.edu