Items related to Hell: In Search of a Christian Ecology

Hell: In Search of a Christian Ecology - Softcover

Morton, Timothy

  • 3.28 out of 5 stars
    36 ratings by Goodreads
 
9780231214711: Hell: In Search of a Christian Ecology
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0231214715 ISBN 13: 9780231214711
Publisher: Columbia University Press, 2024

Synopsis

Hell on earth is real. The toxic fusion of big oil, Evangelical Christianity, and white supremacy has ignited a worldwide inferno, more phantasmagoric than anything William Blake could dream up and more cataclysmic than we can fathom. Escaping global warming hell, this revelatory book shows, requires a radical, mystical marriage of Christianity and biology that awakens a future beyond white male savagery.

Timothy Morton argues that there is an unexpected yet profound relationship between religion and ecology that can guide a planet-scale response to the climate crisis. Spiritual and mystical feelings have a deep resonance with ecological thinking, and together they provide the resources environmentalism desperately needs in this time of climate emergency. Morton finds solutions in a radical revaluation of Christianity, furnishing ecological politics with a language of mercy and forgiveness that draws from Christian traditions without bringing along their baggage. They call for a global environmental movement that fuses ecology and mysticism and puts race and gender front and center. This nonviolent resistance can stage an all-out assault on the ultimate Satanic mill: the concept of master and slave, manifesting today in white supremacy, patriarchy, and environmental destruction. Passionate, erudite, and playful, Hell takes readers on a full-color journey into the contemporary underworld―and offers a surprising vision of salvation.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

About the Author

Timothy Morton is Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English at Rice University and director of the Cool America Foundation. They are the author of more than twenty books, including Hyperobjects, Dark Ecology, and Ecology Without Nature. Morton has collaborated with Laurie Anderson, Björk, Jennifer Walshe, Susan Kucera, Adam McKay, Jeff Bridges, and Olafur Eliasson.

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.

Publisher
Columbia University Press
Publication date
2024
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0231214715
ISBN 13 
9780231214711
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
312
Rating
  • 3.28 out of 5 stars
    36 ratings by Goodreads