Religion, Materialism and Ecology
- 210 pages
- English
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Religion, Materialism and Ecology
About this book
This timely collection of essays by leading international scholars across religious studies and the environmental humanities advances a lively discussion on materialism in its many forms. While there is little agreement on what 'materialism' means, it is evident that there is a resurgence in thinking about matter in more animated and active ways.
The volume explores how debates concerning the new materialisms impinge on religious traditions and the extent to which religions, with their material culture and beliefs in the Divine within the material, can make a creative contribution to debates about ecological materialisms. Spanning a broad range of themes, including politics, architecture, hermeneutics, literature and religion, the book brings together a series of discussions on materialism in the context of diverse methodologies and approaches. The volume investigates a range of issues including space and place, hierarchy and relationality, the relationship between nature and society, human and other agencies, and worldviews and cultural values.
Drawing on literary and critical theory, and queer, philosophical, theological and social theoretical approaches, this ground-breaking book will make an important contribution to the environmental humanities. It will be a key read for postgraduate students, researchers and scholars in religious studies, cultural anthropology, literary studies, philosophy and environmental studies.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Endorsements
- Half-Title
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- CONTENTS
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- 1 Developing a Critical Planetary Romanticism: Re-attuning to the Earth
- 2 Architecting Zoë: On Haunting Homes and Sacred Ecomateriality
- 3 Planetary Technics, Earthly Spirits
- 4 Panexperiential Materialism? On Latour, Whitehead and Laudato Si’
- 5 Binding the Wounds of Mother Earth: Christian Animism, New Materialism and the Politics of Nonhuman Personhood Today
- 6 Spirit Possession as Focal Point in the Constellation of Religion, Materialism and Ecology
- 7 Autothanatography and Terminal Relationality in the Time of the Anthropocene
- 8 A Poetics of Nature: Religious Naturalism, Multiplicities and Affinities
- 9 Queering Stories of Religious Materialism: Plural Practices of (Earth) Care and Repair
- 10 The Matter of Oil: Extraction Vitalisms and Enchantment
- 11 Fiction’s Double-Helix: Incarnate Process and the Capacity for Transformation in Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol
- Afterword
- Index