Scholar · Writer · Ecological Theology

Deanna
Zantingh.

Thinking with land, story, and relationship toward more just and life-giving worlds.

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About the scholar

Biography forthcoming.

Deanna is currently reviewing the biographical introduction for this site. A fuller account of her scholarly work, research commitments, and community collaborations will be published here soon.

Research & ideas

Questions that shape
the work.

An interdisciplinary practice attentive to the connections between people, place, institutions, and the living world.

01 / LAND

Ecological theology

Place, treaty, ecological responsibility, and the relational worlds we inhabit.

02 / CARE

Feminist & decolonial thought

Care ethics, colonial structures, and the possibility of different futures.

03 / LIFE

Critical suicidology

Community, healing justice, and life-promoting relations beyond individualizing models.

Selected bibliography

Publications & writing.

Verified publications and publicly available writing. Browse by format and follow original sources.

Selected bibliography · Original sources linked with each entry. The publication year for Growing Place in the Universe-ity remains to be confirmed.

In edited collections

Book chapters & essays.

Longer conversations on place, institutions, and the conditions for life.

In conversation

Talks, audio & video.

Podcast · 2026

Paying Attention, for All Our Relations

Deanna joins fellow hosts in the opening conversation of Be Attentive, Be Reasonable, Be a Good Relative.

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Conference · 2025

Reframing Togetherness with the Land

Panel contribution listed in the Canadian Theological Society annual conference program.

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Video · 2013

CMU Alumni Profile & In Gratitude

Canadian Mennonite University archival video featuring Deanna.

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Recorded presentation · 2015

Called to Action: Partnership Circle

With Patricia Vickers. Reflections on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's calls to action.

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Audio · 2023

Is the World Cursed?

A Rocha panel with Norman Wirzba, Trevor Herriot, Rachel Krause, and Deanna Zantingh.

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Conference · 2022

Reconciliation Is a Radical Ecological Vision of Care

Graduate Conference in Religion and Ecology, Yale University.

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Conversation · 2014

On Being Good Neighbours

A CMU Face2Face panel on urban reserves in Winnipeg.

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Interview · 2017

Possessed by the Land

A conversation with Deanna Zantingh and Willie James Jennings, interviewed by Jeff Friesen.

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