Ecological Solidarities

Krista E. Hughes is Associate Professor of Religion and Director of the Muller Center at Newberry College.Dhawn B. Martin is Executive Director of the Source of Light Center in San Antonio, Texas.Elaine Padilla is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religion and Latinx/Latin American Studies at the University of La Verne. She is the author of Divine Enjoyment: A Theology of Passion and Exuberance and coeditor of three volumes in the series Christianities of the World.

“With Ecological Solidarities, prophetic warnings awaken us to a new paradigm of perception, insight, and action: Discard not the tragic disintegration that a blind humanity inflicts on this planet! This important volume collects voices of theopolitical and ecotheological visions calling for the renewal of our care for the wounded planet that is our home.”—Roland Faber, author of The Garden of Reality: Transreligious Relativity in a World of Becoming

• AcknowledgementsPainting The Light That Encircles NothingnessScott NeelyIntroductionKrista E. Hughes, Dhawn B. Martin, and Elaine PadillaChapter A Political Theology of NowCatherine KellerPoem How We BecomeCrystal Tennille IrbyPoem What If?: A Spoken Word PoemSapient SoulChapter Jezebel and Indo-Western Women: Nation, Nationalism, and the Ecologies of Sexual Violence in Revelation 2:20–25Sharon JacobChapter Climate Change as Race Debt, Class Debt, and Climate Colonialism: Moral Conundrums, Vision, and AgencyCynthia Moe-LobedaActivist Reflection The Mystery of Love in the Via CollectivaGail Worcelo, SGM, and Marg Kehoe, PBVMChapter Deep Solidarity: Dealing with Oppression and Exploitation Beyond Charity and AdvocacyJoerg RiegerChapter From Latin America with Love: Practices Sustaining Us at This Time of Great TurningMary Judith RessPainting TitoArt 8José Ernesto PadillaChapter Spooky Love: Dwelling in the Face of Ecosystemic AnnihilationElaine PadillaActivist Reflection The Hummingbird Spirit and Care of Our Common Home: An Afro-Theo-Ethical Response to Laudato Si’Teresia M. HingaChapter An Ecological Theology for Asia: The Challenges of Pope Francis’s Encyclical Laudato Si’Peter C. PhanPainting TitoArt 12José Ernesto PadillaChapter Plasticity and Change: Rethinking Difference and Identity with Catherine MalabouClayton CrockettChapter Prismatic Identities in a Planetary ContextWhitney A. BaumanActivist Reflection Cultivating Listening as a Civic DisciplineKrista E. HughesChapter Xtopia: An Alternative Frame for Ecosocial JusticeDhawn B. MartinPainting Ocean CircleScott NeelyContributorsIndex