Reading with Earth

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

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.

• 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