Ecospirit : religions and philosophies for the earth / edited by Laurel Kearns and Catherine Keller.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kearns, Laurel.

Keller, Catherine, 1953-

Series:

Transdisciplinary theological colloquia.

Transdisciplinary theological colloquia

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nature--Religious aspects.

Nature.

Human ecology--Religious aspects.

Human ecology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

We hope—even as we doubt—that the environmental crisis can be controlled. Public awareness of our species’ self-destructiveness as material beings in a material world is growing—but so is the destructiveness. The practical interventions needed for saving and restoring the earth will require a collective shift of such magnitude as to take on a spiritual and religious intensity.This transformation has in part already begun. Traditions of ecological theology and ecologically aware religious practice have been preparing the way for decades. Yet these traditions still remain marginal to society, academy, and church. With a fresh, transdisciplinary approach, Ecospirit probes the possibility of a green shift radical enough to permeate the ancient roots of our sensibility and the social sources of our practice. From new language for imagining the earth as a living ground to current constructions of nature in theology, science, and philosophy; from environmentalism’s questioning of postmodern thought to a garden of green doctrines, rituals, and liturgies for contemporary religion, these original essays explore and expand our sense of how to proceed in the face of an ecological crisis that demands new thinking and acting. In the midst of planetary crisis, they activateimagination, humor, ritual, and hope.

Contents:

Introduction: Grounding theory : earth in religion and philosophy / Catherine Keller and Laurel Kearns

Ecogrounds : language, matrix, practice. Ecotheology and world religions / Jay McDaniel ; Talking the walk : a practice-based environmental ethic as grounds for hope / Anna L. Peterson ; Talking dirty : ground is not foundation / Catherine Keller ; Ecofeminist philosophy, theology, and ethics : a comparative view / Rosemary Radford Ruether

Econatures : science, faith, philosophy. Cooking the truth : faith, science, the market, and global warming / Laurel Kearns ; Ecospirituality and the blurred boundaries of humans, animals, and machines / Glen A. Mazis ; Getting over "nature" : modern bifurcations, postmodern possibilities / Barbara Muraca ;Toward an ethics of biodiversity : science and theology in environmentalist dialogue / Kevin J. O'Brien ; Indigenous knowing and responsible life in the world / John Grim

Econstructions : theory and theology. The preoriginal gift and our response to it / Anne Primavesi ; Prometheus redeemed? From autoconstruction to ecopoetics / Kate Rigby ; Toward a Deleuze-Guattarian micropneumatology of spirit-dust / Luke Higgins ; Specters of Derrida : on the way to econstruction / David Wood

Ecodoctrines : spirit, creation, atonement, eschaton. Sacred-land theology : green spirit, deconstruction, and the question of idolatry in contemporary earthen Christianity / Mark I. Wallace ; Grounding the spirit : an ecofeminist pneumatology / Sharon Betcher ; Hearing the outcry of mute things : toward a Jewish creation theology / Lawrence Troster ; Creatio ex nihilo, terra nullius, and the erasure of presence / Whitney A. Bauman ; Surrogate suffering : paradigms of sin, salvation, and sacrifice within the vivisection movement / Antonia Gorman ; The hope of the earth : a process ecoeschatology for South Korea / Seung Gap Lee

Ecospaces : desecration, sacrality, place. Restoring earth, restored to earth : toward an ethic for reinhabiting place / Daniel T. Spencer ; Caribou and carbon colonialism : toward a theology of arctic place / Marion Grau ; Divining New Orleans : invoking wisdom for the redemption of place / Anne Daniell ; Constructing nature at a chapel in the woods / Richard R. Bohannon II ; Felling sacred groves : appropriation of a Christian tradition for antienvironmentalism / Nicole A. Roskos

Ecohopes : enactments, poetics, liturgics. Ethics and ecology : a primary challenge of the dialogue of civilizations / Mary Evelyn Tucker ; Religion and the earth on the ground : the experience of greenfaith in New Jersey / Fletcher Harper ; Cries of creation, ground for hope : faith, justice, and the earth interfaith worship service / Jane Ellen Nickell and Lawrence Troster ; The firm ground for hope : a ritual for planting humans and trees / Heather Murray Elkins, with assistance from David Wood ; Musings from White Rock Lake : poems / Karen Baker-Fletcher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [543]-635).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9786612698750

9780823236626

0823236625

9780823247035

0823247031

9781282698758

1282698753

9780823237593

0823237591

9780823227471

0823227472

OCLC:

647876530