Religion Materialism And Ecology

Author : Sigurd Bergmann,Kate Rigby,Peter Manley Scott
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781000879209

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Religion, Materialism and Ecology by Sigurd Bergmann,Kate Rigby,Peter Manley Scott Pdf

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.

Author : C. Crockett,J. Robbins
Publisher : Springer
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781137268938

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Religion, Politics, and the Earth by C. Crockett,J. Robbins Pdf

"Following Vattimo's postmodern philosophy, Badiou's postmetaphysical ontology, and i ek's revolutionary style, the authors of this marvelous book invites us to reactivate our politics of resistance against our greatest enemy: corporate capitalism. The best solution to the ecological, energy, and financial crisis corporate capitalism has created, as Crockett Clayton and Jeffrey Robbins suggest, is a new theological materialism where Being is conceived as energy both subjectively and objectively. All my graduate students will have to read this book carefully if they want to become philosophers." - Santiago Zabala, ICREA Research Professor at the University of Barcelona "This is a book of an extraordinary timeliness, written in an accessible and strikingly informative way. It is excellently poised to become a synthetic and agenda setting statement about the implications of a new materialism for the founding of a new radical theology, a new kind of spirituality. I consider this therefore quite a remarkable book which will be influential in ongoing discussions of psychoanalysis, continental philosophy, and theology. Moreover, it will be, quite simply, the best book about spirituality and the new materialism on the market today. While all of the work of the new materialists engage at one level or another the question of a new spirituality, I do not think there is anything comparable in significance to what Crockett and Robbins have provided here." - Ward Blanton, University of Kent "This book will perhaps be most appreciated by the reader with an intuitive cast of mind, able to recognize the force of an argument in its imaginative suggestiveness . . . New Materialism is about energy transformation, we are told, energy which cannot be reduced to matter because it resonates with spirit and life . . . Yet the book strikes a fundamental note of hard reality: 'if we want our civilization to live on earth a little longer we will have to recognize our coexistence with and in earth'." - Christian Ecology Link

Author : Mary Evelyn Tucker,John Grim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015032221429

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Worldviews and Ecology by Mary Evelyn Tucker,John Grim Pdf

Amidst the many voices clamoring to interpret the environmental crisis, some of the most important are the voices of religious traditions. Long before modernity's industrialism began the rape of Earth, premodern religious and philosophical traditions mediated to untold generations the wisdom of living as a part of nature. These traditions can illuminate and empower wiser ways of postmodern living. The original writings of Worldviews and Ecology creatively present and interpret worldviews of major religious and philosophical traditions on how humans can live more sustainably on a fragile planet. Contributors include Charlene Spretnak, Larry Rasmussen, Noel Brown, Jay McDaniel, Tu Wei-Ming, Thomas Berry, David Ray Griffin, J. Baird Callicott, Eric Katz, Roger E. Timm, Robert A. White, Christopher Key Chapple, Brian Swimme, Brian Brown, Michael Tobias, Ralph Metzner, George Sessions, and Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim. Insights from traditions as diverse as Jain, Jewish, ecofeminist, deep ecology, Christian, Hindu, Bahai, and Whiteheadian will interest all who seek an honest analysis of what religious and philosophical traditions have to say to a modernity whose consciousness and conscience seems tragically narrow, the source of attitudes that imperil the biosphere.

Author : Willis J. Jenkins,Mary Evelyn Tucker,John Grim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 693 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317655329

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Routledge Handbook of Religion and Ecology by Willis J. Jenkins,Mary Evelyn Tucker,John Grim Pdf

The moral values and interpretive systems of religions are crucially involved in how people imagine the challenges of sustainability and how societies mobilize to enhance ecosystem resilience and human well-being. The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Ecology provides the most comprehensive and authoritative overview of the field. It encourages both appreciative and critical angles regarding religious traditions, communities, attitude, and practices. It presents contrasting ways of thinking about "religion" and about "ecology" and about ways of connecting the two terms. Written by a team of leading international experts, the Handbook discusses dynamics of change within religious traditions as well as their roles in responding to global challenges such as climate change, water, conservation, food and population. It explores the interpretations of indigenous traditions regarding modern environmental problems drawing on such concepts as lifeway and indigenous knowledge. This volume uniquely intersects the field of religion and ecology with new directions within the humanities and the sciences. This interdisciplinary volume is an essential reference for scholars and students across the social sciences and humanities and for all those looking to understand the significance of religion in environmental studies and policy.

Author : Joerg Rieger,Edward Waggoner
Publisher : Springer
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781137568441

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Religious Experience and New Materialism by Joerg Rieger,Edward Waggoner Pdf

In this groundbreaking volume, theologians and scholars of religion criticize and refine new materialist views, to advance debate about the role of religious experience in social and political change.

Author : American Academy of Religion,American Academy of Religion. National Meeting
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2001-02-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0791448835

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Deep Ecology and World Religions by American Academy of Religion,American Academy of Religion. National Meeting Pdf

Parallels and contrasts values from world religions and those proposed by the environmental perspective of deep ecology.

Author : John Grim,Mary Evelyn Tucker
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1597267074

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Ecology and Religion by John Grim,Mary Evelyn Tucker Pdf

From the Psalms in the Bible to the sacred rivers in Hinduism, the natural world has been integral to the world’s religions. John Grim and Mary Evelyn Tucker contend that today’s growing environmental challenges make the relationship ever more vital. This primer explores the history of religious traditions and the environment, illustrating how religious teachings and practices both promoted and at times subverted sustainability. Subsequent chapters examine the emergence of religious ecology, as views of nature changed in religious traditions and the ecological sciences. Yet the authors argue that religion and ecology are not the province of institutions or disciplines alone. They describe four fundamental aspects of religious life: orienting, grounding, nurturing, and transforming. Readers then see how these phenomena are experienced in a Native American religion, Orthodox Christianity, Confucianism, and Hinduism. Ultimately, Grim and Tucker argue that the engagement of religious communities is necessary if humanity is to sustain itself and the planet. Students of environmental ethics, theology and ecology, world religions, and environmental studies will receive a solid grounding in the burgeoning field of religious ecology.

Author : Whitney A. Bauman
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780231537100

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Religion and Ecology by Whitney A. Bauman Pdf

Moving beyond identity politics while continuing to respect diverse entities and concerns, Whitney A. Bauman builds a planetary politics that better responds to the realities of a pluralistic world. Calling attention to the historical, political, and ecological influences shaping our understanding of nature, religion, humanity, and identity, Bauman collapses the boundaries separating male from female, biology from machine, human from more than human, and religion from science, encouraging readers to embrace hybridity and the inherent fluctuations of an open, evolving global community. As he outlines his planetary ethic, Bauman concurrently develops an environmental ethic of movement that relies not on place but on the daily connections we make across the planet. He shows how both identity politics and environmental ethics fail to realize planetary politics and action, limited as they are by foundational modes of thought that create entire worlds out of their own logic. Introducing a postfoundational vision not rooted in the formal principles of "nature" or "God" and not based in the idea of human exceptionalism, Bauman draws on cutting-edge insights from queer, poststructural, and deconstructive theory and makes a major contribution to the study of religion, science, politics, and ecology.

Author : Whitney A. Bauman,Richard Bohannon,Kevin J. O'Brien
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000953176

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Grounding Religion by Whitney A. Bauman,Richard Bohannon,Kevin J. O'Brien Pdf

Now in its third edition, Grounding Religion explores relationships between the environment and religious beliefs and practices. Established scholars introduce students to the ways religion shapes and is shaped by human–earth relations, surveying a series of key issues and questions, with particular attention to issues of environmental degradation, social justice, ritual practices, and religious worldviews. Case studies, discussion questions, and further readings enrich students’ experience. This third edition features updated content, including revisions of every chapter and new material on religion and the environmental humanities, sexuality and queer studies, class, ability, privilege and power, environmental justice, extinction, biodiversity, and politics. An excellent text for undergraduates and graduates alike, it offers an expansive overview of the academic field of religion and ecology as it has emerged in the past fifty years and continues to develop today.

Author : David Spring,Eileen Spring
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Ecology
ISBN : OCLC:642084500

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Ecology and religion in history by David Spring,Eileen Spring Pdf

Author : Professor Harold Coward,Harold Coward,Daniel C. Maguire,Professor of Theological Ethics Daniel C Maguire
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0791444570

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Visions of a New Earth by Professor Harold Coward,Harold Coward,Daniel C. Maguire,Professor of Theological Ethics Daniel C Maguire Pdf

Brings together world religion scholars and creative international economists to address the current eco-crisis.

Author : Celia Deane-Drummond,Heinrich Bedford-Strohm
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567035080

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Religion and Ecology in the Public Sphere by Celia Deane-Drummond,Heinrich Bedford-Strohm Pdf

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Author : David E Cooper,Joy A Palmer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2004-06-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134767168

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Spirit of the Environment by David E Cooper,Joy A Palmer Pdf

Spirit of the Environment brings spiritual and religious concerns to environmental issues. Providing a much needed alternative to exploring human beings' relationship to the natural world through the restrictive lenses of 'science', 'ecology', or even 'morality', this book offers a fresh perspective to the field. Spirit of the Enironment addresses: * the environmental attitudes of the major religions; * the relationship between art and nature; * the Gaia hypothesis; * the non-instrumental values which have inspired environmental concern. Contributors range from a variety of disciplines including philosophy, comparative religion, education and social anthropology, providing students with an intriguing survey on the role that spirituality and religion play in nature. This is a vital collection for those eager to examine the relationship between the spiritual and the environment.

Author : Forrest Clingerman,Mark H. Dixon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317080404

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Placing Nature on the Borders of Religion, Philosophy and Ethics by Forrest Clingerman,Mark H. Dixon Pdf

The natural world has been "humanized": even areas thought to be wilderness bear the marks of human impact. But this human impact is not simply physical. At the emergence of the environmental movement, the focus was on human effects on "nature." More recently, however, the complexity of the term "nature" has led to fruitful debates and the recognition of how human individuals and cultures interpret their environments. This book furthers the dialogue on religion, ethics, and the environment by exploring three interrelated concepts: to recreate, to replace, and to restore. Through interdisciplinary dialogue the authors illuminate certain unique dimensions at the crossroads between finding value, creating value, and reflecting on one's place in the world. Each of these terms has diverse religious, ethical, and scientific connotations. Each converges on the ways in which humans both think about and act upon their surroundings. And each radically questions the damaging conceptual divisions between nature and culture, human and environment, and scientific explanation and religious/ethical understanding. This book self-consciously reflects on the intersections of environmental philosophy, environmental theology, and religion and ecology, stressing the importance of how place interprets us and how we interpret place. In addition to its contribution to environmental philosophy, this work is a unique volume in its serious engagement with theology and religious studies on the issues of ecological restoration and the meaning of place.

Author : John F. Haught
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2004-10-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781592449453

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The Promise of Nature by John F. Haught Pdf

This new, thought-provoking work justifies the role of religion in shaping an ecological ethic, and provides a foundation for discussion among those who are concerned with the state of the natural environment, and who wonder how religion can contribute to the renewal of the Earth.