Ecospirit: Religions and Philosophies for the EarthLaurel Kearns, Catherine Keller 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. |
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... definition abstract, unchanging, and universal. Thus, for example, if it is wrong to lie (or take a life, or use drugs, et cetera) in any circumstance, then it must be wrong to do so under all circumstances. The privileging of the ideal ...
... our most dedicated efforts will transform people's relationship to nature. These obstacles to praxis constitute something resembling what anthropologist Michael Taussig calls a “public secret,” defined 52 | ECOSPIRIT.
... defined as “that which is generally known but cannot be acknowledged.” The “public secret” of environmental ethics is that we spend most of our time on tasks that do not lead to the ends we desire. We all know this, but we do not call ...
... defined as “the progressive composition of the common world.”“ Nature in this paradigm silences the negotiations by which the human and nonhuman agents of this earth collective might collect themselves. In this Platonized form, which ...
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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Ecospirit: Religions and Philosophies for the Earth Laurel Kearns,Catherine Keller No preview available - 2007 |
Ecospirit: Religions and Philosophies for the Earth Laurel Kearns,Catherine Keller No preview available - 2007 |
Ecospirit: Religions and Philosophies for the Earth Laurel Kearns,Catherine Keller No preview available - 2007 |