Reading with Earth

Contributions of the New Materialism to an Ecological Feminist Hermeneutics

AvAnne Elvey,Hilda P. Koster

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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Beskrivning

Winner of the 2023 ANZATS Award for the Best Monograph by an Established ScholarApplying a re-envisioned, ecological, feminist hermeneutics, this book builds on two important responses to twentieth- and twenty-first-century situations of ecological trauma, especially the complex contexts of climate change and cross-species relations: first, ecological feminism; second, ecological hermeneutics in the Earth Bible tradition. By way of readings of selected biblical texts, this book suggests that an ecological feminist aesthetic, bringing present situation and biblical text into conversation through engagement with activism and literature, principally poetry, is helpful in decolonizing ethics. Such an approach is both informed by and speaks back to the new materialism in ecological criticism.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-03-21
Mått:152 x 234 x 18 mm
Vikt:400 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:T&T Clark Explorations in Theology, Gender and Ecology
Antal sidor:260
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9780567708328
Utmärkelser:Winner of ANZATS Award for the Best Monograph by an Established Scholar 2023 (UK)

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Religion: allmänt inom Filosofi och religion

Mer om författaren

Anne Elvey is Adjunct Research Fellow at Monash University, Australia, and Honorary Research Associate at University of Divinity, Melbourne, Australia.

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The extraordinary breadth in this braided conversation between the biblical text and contemporary ecological contexts is impressive. Elvey combines analysis with creativity, complexities with poetry, nuance with passion. This work challenges, inspires and exhorts us to change and to imagine the future of our world differently.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1: Introduction: Feminisms, Materialisms and Reading with EarthSection 1: The Materiality of BreathChapter 2: Breath and Earth Voice: Exploring an Ecological Hermeneutics of RetrievalChapter 3: Retrieving an Earth Voice: Reading Materially ‘as if it’s holy’Chapter 4: Strained Breath and Open Text: Exploring the Materiality of Breath in Relation to Reading Luke 4:16-30Section 2: Situating Ecological MaterialismChapter 5: Reframing Feminist Approaches Ecologically: Matter, Freedom and the FutureChapter 6: Climate Change as Material Situation: Interpreting the Present Period alongside Luke 12.54-56Chapter 7: Rethinking Neighbour Love: Political Theology, Ecological Ethics and an Ecological Materialist Reading of Luke 10.25-37Section 3: Shared VulnerabilitiesChapter 8: An Ecological Feminist Approach to Cross Species Relatedness: Compassion and Luke 10.30-37Chapter 9: Mountaintop Removal Mining (MTR) and Isaiah 40.4 (and Luke 3.5): Resisting the Violence of HomogenizationChapter 10: The Great Barrier Reef and Reading toward Activism: Transfigurations and DisfigurationsChapter 11: Concluding ReflectionBibliographyIndex