Ecospirit: Religions and Philosophies for the EarthWe hope-- even as we often doubt-- that the environmental crisis can be controlled. Public awareness of our species' self-destructive relation to its own materiality is growing. But so is the destruction. The needed practical interventions seem to require a collective shift of such magnitude as to take on spiritual or religious intensity. Traditions of ecological theology and eco-religious praxis have been preparing the way for several decades, yet they have remained 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. Its authors undertake an elemental deconstruction of our theological habits of supernaturalism, our under-thought praxis, as well as our philosophical models of nature. But in this study deconstruction begins to turn upon itself, perplexed by its own earth-blind anthropocentrisms. The possibility of "econstruction" arises.The essays of Ecospirit transmute a paralyzing sense of emergency into the emergence of a moving language of the earth. Grounded in the complex ecosocial contexts in which all creatures become, a discourse for a genesis collective begins to take form. The essays pursue a thought-experiment in multi-leveled, multi-religious, multi-contextual ecospirituality. They embrace introductory exercises in ecotheology, conceptually rigorous engagements with the theological tradition and its philosophical underpinnings, and explorations of the ways that religious praxis can both harm and heal. The book ranges across theology, religious studies, philosophy, literary criticism, ethics, sociology, and cultural studies--all serving to explore |
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Theory—Earth. in. Religion. and. Philosophy. CATHERINE KELLER AND
LAUREL KEARNS A New Yorker magazine cartoon displays a sporty little flying
saucer flitting away from the earth. One extraterrestrial is commenting to the other
: “The ...
Theory—Earth. in. Religion. and. Philosophy. CATHERINE KELLER AND
LAUREL KEARNS A New Yorker magazine cartoon displays a sporty little flying
saucer flitting away from the earth. One extraterrestrial is commenting to the other
: “The ...
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They thereby craft theory supportive of ecological awareness across the
disciplines. We are therefore interested in the language, the discourse, the
operative theory by which the values of sustainability with justice will or will not
be taught and ...
They thereby craft theory supportive of ecological awareness across the
disciplines. We are therefore interested in the language, the discourse, the
operative theory by which the values of sustainability with justice will or will not
be taught and ...
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conservative Christian emphasis on evolution and global warming as theory, or
theology, just as the account of creation, or intelligent design, is a ”theory.” The
implication is that theories are unproven, and thus are matters of belief. Of course
...
conservative Christian emphasis on evolution and global warming as theory, or
theology, just as the account of creation, or intelligent design, is a ”theory.” The
implication is that theories are unproven, and thus are matters of belief. Of course
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Contents
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THEORY AND THEOLOGY | 215 |
SPIRIT CREATION ATONEMENT ESCHATON | 289 |
DESECRATION SACRALITY PLACE | 413 |
ENACTMENTS POETICS LITURGICS | 493 |
Notes | 543 |
Contributors | 637 |
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