Research Themes

Religious meaning making and the ‘affective therapeutics’ of environmental change

Syncretic forms of Christianity

Environmental change and precarity in Peru

Rural livelihoods based on religious and spiritual tourism

Disaster risk reduction (DRR) and community resilience

Publications

Primary Author

[In review] Van Caulart, J. A. (2026). Sanctuaries of the Swollen River: Rural Christianity and Resilience in the Peruvian Amazon.

Van Caulart, J. A. (2025). “We Have Faith to Endure It”: The Role of Rural Amazonian Christianity in Shaping Social Cohesion and Hazard Resilience in Ucayali, Peru. [MA Thesis, University of Toronto]. ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.32662.66889

Van Caulart, J. A. (2023). Recommendations for Bank and Bluff Erosion Monitoring Using Citizen Science in Walkerton, Ontario. [Senior Honours Thesis, University of Waterloo]. UWSpace. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.22867.69925

Van Caulart, J. A. (2020). Coastal Geomorphology and Erosion at Iceland’s Reynisfjara Beach. Waterloo Journal of Environmental Studies (1). https://wjes.ca/coastal-geomorphology-and-erosion-at-icelands-reynisfjara-beach/

Other Contributions

Environment and Climate Change Canada and the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. (2022). 2021 Annual Climate Trends and Impacts Summary for the Great Lakes Basin. Binational.net. https://binational.net/2022/07/21/2021-annual-climate-trends-and-impacts-summary-for-the-great-lakes-basin/

In Progress

Van Caulart, J. A. (2025-26?). Lived religion and affective therapeutics of rural Amazonian Christianity in Peru.