Nature, the Climate Crisis and Divinity
Phenomenology and Politics
Nature, the Climate Crisis and Divinity
Phenomenology and Politics
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While considering the themes of sacredness and religious experiences, this volume presents a phenomenological discussion surrounding the climate crisis and current debates in political ecology.
The current ecological crisis ultimately concerns humanity itself and does so with respect to its place in nature and its relation to divinity. Cross-cultural religious experiences, or experiences of sacredness, often manifest in natural phenomena. The relation to that sacred space is often ritually marked, and as such becomes somewhat politically charged by the manner in which a community designates space and territory and by the hierarchical structures of ritual practice.
This volume is oriented around this broad religious and political context of understanding and enacting human relations with and in nature. The first section on political ecology will engage with debates and ideas in feminism, new materialism, science, philosophy of technology, and other such disciplines to explore the critique of modernist notions of objectivity and rationality, as well as understandings of the relation of society and nature. The contributors explore the manner in which agency can be extended beyond human actors, and the consequence this has for our understanding of political representation, social expectations, and human rights.
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Table of Contents
Part I: Polytheism, Pantheism and the Sacred
1. Neopaganism and the Grounding of the Sacred, Arianne Conty (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
2. Elemental Glory: Ecology and Christian Polytheism, Matthew Eaton (Georgetown University, USA)
Part II: Politics, Nature and Human Responsibility
3. Eric Voegelin's Concept of Gnosticism as an Inheritance for Contemporary Political Ecology, Tim Howles (Laudato Si' Research Institute, University of Oxford, UK)
4. God or Nature? The Ambivalent Religiosity of Karl Löwith's Cosmocentrism and Critique of Modernity, Sjoerd Griffioen (University of Groningen, Netherlands)
5. Hospitable Creation: Responsible Stewardship in an Environment of Otherness, Mary Shanahan (St. Angela's College, Sligo, Ireland)
Part III: Crisis, Agency and Protest
6. Agency of Nature in the Context of the Crisis of Anthropocene, Jason Wirth (Seattle University, USA)
7. Toward the Wordless Core: The Black Church and the Flint Water Crisis, Mitchell Atkinson (NYU Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates)
8. The Naked Truth, the Clothing of Grace, and the Veil of Isis: On the Use of Naked Protest by Extinction Rebellion, Oisín Keohane (University of Dundee, Scotland)
Part IV: The Poetics of Ecology
9. God, Nature and Handwork: Meeting Crises with Merleau-Ponty, Crawford and Religious Belief, Tim Mooney (University College Dublin, Ireland)
10. From Metaphor to the Fourfold: Towards a Heideggerian Eco-poetics, Rachel Coventry (University of Galway, Ireland)
Notes on Contributors
Index
Product details
| Published | May 13 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 352 |
| ISBN | 9781978764231 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Series | Phenomenologies of Religious Experience |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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