Ecospirit: Religions and Philosophies for the Earth (Transdisciplinary Theological Colloquia) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0823227464 ISBN 13: 9780823227464

Publisher: Fordham University Press, 2007

Synopsis

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.

This transformation has in part already begun. Traditions of ecological theology and ecologically aware religious practice have been preparing the way for decades. Yet these traditions still remain 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. From new language for imagining the earth as a living ground to current constructions of nature in theology, science, and philosophy; from environmentalism’s questioning of postmodern thought to a garden of green doctrines, rituals, and liturgies for contemporary religion, these original essays explore and expand our sense of how to proceed in the face of an ecological crisis that demands new thinking and acting. In the midst of planetary crisis, they activate
imagination, humor, ritual, and hope.

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About the Author

Catherine Keller is George T. Cobb Professor of Constructive Theology in The Graduate Division of Religion, Drew University. She works amid the tangles of ecosocial, pluralist, feminist philosophy of religion and theology. Her books include Face of the Deep: A Theology of Becoming; On the Mystery; Cloud of the Impossible: Negative Theology and Planetary Entanglement; Political Theology of the Earth: Our Planetary Emergency and the Struggle for a New Public. She has co-edited several volumes of the Drew Transdisciplinary Theological Colloquium, most recently Political Theology on Edge: Ruptures of Justice and Belief in the Anthropocene. Her latest monograph is Facing Apocalypse: Climate, Democracy, and Other Last Chances.

Edition details

• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0823227464
• ISBN 13: 9780823227464
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 544
• Editor: Laurel Kearns, Catherine Keller