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Ecospirit Religions and Philosophies for the Earth

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ISBN-10: 0823227464

ISBN-13: 9780823227464

Edition: 4th 2007

Authors: Laurel Kearns, Catherine Keller

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We hopeeven as we doubtthat the environmental crisis can be controlled. Public awareness of our species self-destructiveness as material beings in a material world is growingbut 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…    
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List price: $50.00
Edition: 4th
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Publication date: 6/15/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 544
Size: 6.02" wide x 8.94" long x 1.69" tall
Weight: 1.892
Language: English

Catherine Keller is professor of constructive theology at Caspersen Graduate School of Drew University and steers the Transdisciplinary Theological Colloquium, from which this book emerged.

Introduction : grounding theory - earth in religion and philosophy
Ecogrounds : language, matrix, practice
Ecotheology and world religions
Talking the walk : a practice-based environmental ethic as grounds for hope
Talking dirty : ground is not foundation
Ecofeminist philosophy, theology, and ethics : a comparative view
Econatures : science, faith, philosophy
Cooking the truth : faith, science, the market, and global warming
Ecospirituality and the blurred boundaries of humans, animals, and machines
Getting over "nature" : modern bifurcations, postmodern possibilities
Toward an ethics of biodiversity : science and theology in environmentalist dialogue
Indigenous knowing and responsible life in the world
Econstructions : theory and theology
The preoriginal gift - and our response to it
Prometheus redeemed? : from autoconstruction to ecopoetics
Toward a Deleuze-Guattarian micropneumatology of spirit-dust
Specters of Derrida : on the way to econstruction
Ecodoctrines : spirit, creation, atonement, eschaton
Sacred-land theology : green spirit, deconstruction, and the question of idolatry in contemporary Earthen Christianity
Grounding the spirit : an ecofeminist pneumatology
Hearing the outcry of mute things : toward a Jewish creation theology
Creatio ex Nihilo, Terra Nullius, and the erasure of presence
Surrogate suffering : paradigms of sin, salvation, and sacrifice within the vivisection movement
The hope of the earth : a process ecoeschatology for South Korea
Ecospaces : desecration, sacrality, place
Restoring earth, restored to earth : toward an ethic for reinhabiting place
Caribou and carbon colonialism : toward a theology of arctic place
Divining New Orleans : invoking wisdom for the redemption of place
Constructing nature at a chapel in the woods
Felling sacred groves : appropriation of a christian tradition for antienvironmentalism
Ecohopes : enactments, poetics, liturgics
Ethics and ecology : a primary challenge of the dialogue of civilizations
Religion and the earth on the ground : the experience of GreenFaith in New Jersey
Cries of creation, ground for hope : faith, justice, and the Earth Interfaith Worship Service
The firm ground for hope : a ritual for planting humans and trees
Musings from White Rock Lake : poems