Neocalvinism? Yes, but . . .
Janel Curry, Dean of Research and Scholarship at Calvin College
Comment
April 2006

Recently, I was struck by how far I have drifted from my Baptist and anabaptist roots in terms of the intellectual framework that I use to understand the world. The neocalvinist intellectual framework has so influenced my intellectual journey that I cannot remember how to view reality without this tradition's tools of analysis.

I am a geographer in the human-land tradition of the discipline. I study the relationship between society and the "land," or environment. The main focus of my research has been to understand worldviews and natural resource policy—connections between land use and worldviews among Iowa farmers, comparisons between U.S. and Canadian societal paradigms and forest policies, analysis of swine production systems through a relational worldview, and views on the nature-culture boundary in constructing ocean management policies in New Zealand.

The questions that have driven these research interests have included:

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