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Engaging Culture, Nature, and Religion

Forrest Clingerman and the Importance of Emplacement

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Engaging Culture, Nature, and Religion

Forrest Clingerman and the Importance of Emplacement

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Building on a shared foundation of the lifework of the late Forrest Clingerman, this book considers how to influence environmental change through thoughtful interventions in the natural and cultural spheres

Following Clingerman's unexpected death in 2024, Daniel Boscaljon and Verna Marina Ehret's collection brings Clingerman's methods and visions together into a world that has become increasingly desperate for this message of hope. Taking further inspiration from Clingerman's theory of "emplacement," or the nature of place, Boscaljon and Ehret use discussions of place as an orienting topic for theology, ethics, and philosophy. In doing so, this volume's contributors explore how religion, hermeneutics, and culture interconnect, foregrounding the meaningful treasures of human experience. The essays included in this work consider how we might learn to think and teach in ways informed by a far reaching and transformative vision for living meaningfully, enriched by beauty, with others in community and within the natural world.

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Table of Contents

Introduction, Verna Marina Ehret (Mercyhurst University, USA) and Daniel Boscaljon (Independent Scholar, USA)
Part I: Relearning Our Place
1: The Place of Soul-Making and Meaningful Learning, Daniel Boscaljon (Independent Scholar, USA)
2: Twice Born to Single Vision: Untyping the Book of Nature in Cold Mountain, Glenn Whitehouse (Florida Gulf Coast University, USA)
3: Emplacement, the Settler Colonial Imagination, and Decolonization, Nancy Menning (Independent Scholar, USA)
4: Feet on the Ground: Pilgrimage and Place in a World Come of Age, Lori Brandt Hale (Augsburg University, USA)
5: Theology, Ecology and Climate Change. A Liturgical Celebration, David Jasper (University of Glasgow, UK)
Part II: The Place of Hope

6: Overhumanization and the Hermeneutics of Freedom in the Anthropocene, Maria Antonaccio (Bucknell University, USA)
7: The Hopeful Grotesque: The Ecology and Humanity of the Metaphoric Grotesque, J. Sage Elwell (Texas Christian University, USA)
8: Irreverent Hope, In the Face of Politico-Climatic Catastrophes, Puts Gods and Humanity in Their Place, Nathan Eric Dickman (Independent Scholar, USA)
9: Ancient Roots of the Anthropocene: Copper Production at Timna as an Ancient Sacrifice Zone, Raymond F. Person, Jr. (Ohio Northern University, USA)
10: What Would Forrest Do? Reimagining Place for the Marginalized, Verna Marina Ehret (Mercyhurst University, USA)
Part III: The Place of Engagement
11: Field Guide to the Civic: Place, Polis, and Pedagogy, Swasti Bhattacharyya (Buena Vista University, USA), Karen Derris (University of Redlands, USA), Charles Hallisey (Harvard Divinity School, USA), Reid B Locklin (University of Toronto, Canada), Carolyn M. Jones Medine (University of Georgia, USA), Tina Pippin (Agnes Scott College, USA), Ellen Posman (Baldwin Wallace University, USA), Erin Runions (Pomona College, USA), and Philip Wingeier-Rayo (Wesley Theological Seminary, USA)

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Bloomsbury Academic Test
Published 04 Mar 2027
Format Ebook (PDF)
Edition 1st
Pages 272
ISBN 9798216454212
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Illustrations 2 bw illus
Series Religion and Science as a Critical Discourse
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Daniel Boscaljon

Daniel Boscaljon is the co-founder of Alchemy of L…

Anthology Editor

Verna Marina Ehret

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