Assembling Futures

Economy, Ecology, Democracy, and Religion

Jennifer Quigley, Catherine Keller, Jennifer Quigley, Catherine Keller

• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN:
  9781531506551
  9781531506544
• eBook ISBN:
  9781531506568
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Critical Theory

Transdisciplinary insights at the intersection of religion, democracy, ecology, and economy

What is the relationship of religion to economy, ecology, and democracy? In our fraught moment, what critical questions of religion may help to assembly democratic processes, ecosystems, and economic structures differently? What possible futures might emerge from transdisciplinary work across these traditionally siloed scholarly areas of interest?

The essays in Assembling Futures reflect scholarly conversations among historians, political scientists, theologians, biblical studies scholars, and scholars of religion that transgress disciplinary boundaries to consider urgent matters expressive of the values, practices, and questions that shape human existence. Each essay recognizes urgent imbrications of the global economy, multinational politics, and the materiality of ecological entanglements in assembling still possible futures for the earth. Precisely in their diversity of disciplinary starting points and ethical styles, the essays that follow enact their intersectional forcefield even more vibrantly.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction
• Our Place on Earth: Territory, Property, and the Sources of Human Entitlement
• Democratic Socialism in the USA: History, Politics, Religion, and Theory
• Regifting the Divine Economy: Transitioning Petroleum-Based Energy Regimes
• The Immanence and Transcendence of Christianity, Capitalism, and Economic Democracy: Alternatives to Ecological Devastation
• Sacred Obligations: On the Theopolitics of Debt and Sovereignty
• Curating Futures: The Curatorial as a Theological Concept
• The Costs of Citizenship: Politeuma in the Letter to the Philippians
• Ambiguous, Amorous, Agonistic, Not Able: An Alternative to Adamant, Apathetic, Antagonistic, Able Society
• What Does Evolutionary Biology Tell Us about Relationality as a Basis for Economics and Politics?
• In Whose Interest? Matthew 25:14–30 as a Theo-Economic Parable Hard at Work
• Creeps of the Apocalypse: Climate, Capital, Democracy
• List of Contributors
• Index