Entangled Worlds : Religion, Science, and New Materialisms / Mary-Jane Rubenstein, Catherine Keller.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Keller, Catherine, Editor.

Rubenstein, Mary-Jane, Editor.

Series:

Transdisciplinary theological colloquia.

Transdisciplinary Theological Colloquia

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion and science.

Materialism--Religious aspects.

Materialism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (344 pages) : illustrations, tables.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Historically speaking, theology can be said to operate “materiaphobically.” Protestant Christianity in particular has bestowed upon theology a privilege of the soul over the body and belief over practice, in line with the distinction between a disembodied God and the inanimate world “He” created. Like all other human, social, and natural sciences, religious studies imported these theological dualisms into a purportedly secular modernity, mapping them furthermore onto the distinction between a rational, “enlightened” Europe on the one hand and a variously emotional, “primitive,” and “animist” non-Europe on the other. The “new materialisms” currently coursing through cultural, feminist, political, and queer theories seek to displace human privilege by attending to the agency of matter itself. Far from being passive or inert, they show us that matter acts, creates, destroys, and transforms—and, as such, is more of a process than a thing. Entangled Worlds examines the intersections of religion and new and old materialisms. Calling upon an interdisciplinary throng of scholars in science studies, religious studies, and theology, it assembles a multiplicity of experimental perspectives on materiality: What is matter, how does it materialize, and what sorts of worlds are enacted in its varied entanglements with divinity? While both theology and religious studies have over the past few decades come to prioritize the material contexts and bodily ecologies of more-than-human life, Entangled Worlds sets forth the first multivocal conversation between religious studies, theology, and the body of “the new materialism.” Here disciplines and traditions touch, transgress, and contaminate one another across their several carefully specified contexts. And in the responsiveness of this mutual touching of science, religion, philosophy, and theology, the growing complexity of our entanglements takes on a consistent ethical texture of urgency.

Contents:

Front matter

CONTENTS

Introduction: Tangled Matters

What Flashes Up: Theological-Political-Scientific Fragments

Vegetal Life and Onto-Sympathy

Tingles of Matter, Tangles of Theology

Agents Matter and Matter Agents: Interpretation and Value from Cells to Gaia

The Matter with Pantheism: On Shepherds and Goat-Gods and Mountains and Monsters

Material Subjects, Immaterial Bodies: Abhinavagupta’s Panentheist Matter

Theophanic Materiality: Political Ecology, Inhuman Touch, and the Art of Andy Goldsworthy

Interdisciplinary Ethics: From Astro-Theology to Cosmo-Liberation Theology

Vascularizing the Study of Religion: Multi-Agent Figurations and Cosmopolitics

Stubborn Materiality: African American Religious Naturalism and Becoming Our Humanity

Grace in Intra-action: Complementarity and the Noncircular Gift

The Door of No Return: An Africana Reading of Complexity

The Trouble with Commonality: Theology, Evolutionary Theory, and Creaturely Kinship

List of Contributors

TRANSDISCIPLINARY THEOLOGICAL COLLOQUIA

Notes:

This edition previously issued in print: 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

9780823276257

0823276252

9780823277049

0823277046

9780823276240

0823276244

OCLC:

1000454060