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Ecospirit

Ecospirit

Religions and Philosophies for the Earth

Edited by Laurel Kearns and Catherine Keller

Transdisciplinary Theological Colloquia

Published: 2007

ISBN: 9780823227464

Page Count: 544

Trim Size: 6.000in x 228.600in

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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.

Reviews
. . . an inclusive affirmation of the need for and the commitment to change. - —ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment
Ecospirit inspires new converstaions and opens fresh avenues of insight contributing to Creation's healing. - —Norman Wirzba, Georgetown College
The convenors and editors chose to focus on the relation between environmentalism and post-modernism, an increasingly important engagement for eco-theology. - —ESSSAT-News
This wide-ranging volume embraces poetry, interfaith liturgies, ecological readings of biblical and theological texts, and philosophical analyses of our place in the natural world, all in the service of transforming our ecological attitudes and practices. - —The Christian Century
Ecospirit is best described as state-of-the-art in its field. All the essays in Ecospirit start at the cutting edge of the interdisciplinary responses to the ecological crisis and push critical questions about the effectiveness of contemporary scholarship and activism. - —Comptes rendus
Essays that offer a theological perspective on the environment and its protection. - —The Chronicle of Higher Education
Challenging, inspiring, and subversive. - —David Barnhill, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh

This book is a rare combination of intelligence and vision. Its essays
deserve to be read--and reread--by scholars of religion, environmentalists,
students, and anyone who values the sacredness of the earth.

- —Roger S. Gottlieb, author of A Greener Faith: Religious Environmentalism and our Planet's Future and A Spirituality of Resistance; Worcester Polytechnic Institute

A remarkable volume, given the current debate and eco-crisis." OR

"Ecospirit is cutting-edge work for just the right moment! Every direction taken in this collection moves the discussion forward in re-theorizing nature, our place in it, and our critical practices. I strongly will use this volume at every opportunity.

- —Larry Rasmussen, Union Theological Seminary
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ISBN-13 9780823227464

Published: 2007-06-15

Contributors

Edited: Laurel Kearns
LAUREL KEARNS is Associate Professor of Sociology of Religion and Environmental Studies in the Theological School and Graduate Division of Religion of Drew University. She is the co-editor of Ecospirit: Religions and Philosophies for the Earth (Fordham).

Edited: Catherine Keller

Catherine Keller is George T. Cobb Professor of Constructive Theology in the Theological School and Graduate Division of Religion at Drew University. Recent books include Cloud of the Impossible: Negative Theology and Planetary Entanglement; On the Mystery: Discerning Divinity in Process; Face of the Deep: A Theology of Becoming; and Ecospirit: Theologies and Philosophies of the Earth (Fordham).

Mary-Jane Rubenstein is Professor of Religion at Wesleyan University, where she is also core faculty in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and affiliated faculty in the Science in Society Program.

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