Religion in the Anthropocene

Celia Deane-Drummond is Professor of Theology and Director of the Center for Theology, Science and Human Flourishing at the University of Notre Dame. Her recent books include The Wisdom of the Liminal (2014), Technofutures, Nature, and the Sacred (coeditor, 2015) and Ecology in Jurgen Moltmann's Theology.Sigurd Bergmann is Professor of Religious Studies in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway. His recent books include Religion, Space, and the Environment (2014) and Technofutures, Nature, and the Sacred (coeditor, 2015).Markus Vogt is Professor of Christian Social Ethics at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany. His recent books include Prinzip Nachhaltigkeit (3rd ed. 2013) Wo steht die Umweltethik? (coeditor 2013), and Die Welt des Anthropozän (coeditor 2016).

Interpreting what it means to live in a time characterized by pervasive human influence throughout Earth's systems involves questions and narratives that appear religious in scope, even while they also challenge conventional religious thought. The essays in this collection, edited well so that they are both coherent and helpfully contradictory with one another, offer readers multiple ways into the conflicts and possibilities in the idea of the Anthropocene.

• List of Figures Foreword: The Anthropocene as a Challenge for Public Theology - Heinrich Bedford-StrohmAcknowledgments Contributors The Future of Religion in the Anthropocene Era - Celia Deane-Drummond, Sigurd Bergmann, and Markus VogtPart 1: Setting the Stage1 On Going Gently into the Anthropocene - Michael Northcott2 From the Anthropocene Epoch to a New Axial Age:Using Theory-Fictions to Explore Geo-Spiritual Futures - Bronislaw Szerszynski3 Transformations of Stewardship in the Anthropocene - Christoph Baumgartner4 Religion at Work within Climate Change: Eight Perceptionsabout Its Where and How - Sigurd BergmannPart 2: Historical Matters5 Bridging the Great Divide: The Anthropocene as a Challengeto the Social Sciences and Humanities - Franz Mauelshagen6 Becoming Human in the Anthropocene - Agustín FuentesPart 3: Philosophical Analyses7 De-moralizing and Re-moralizing the Anthropocene - Maria Antonaccio8 Anthropocene Fever: Memory and the Planetary Archive - Stefan Skrimshire9 Reconsidering the Anthropocene as Milieu: William Desmondand the Originary Goodness of Being - Francis Van den NoortgaetePart 4: Theological Trajectories10 Performing the Beginning in the End: A Theological Anthropologyfor the Anthropocene - Celia Deane-Drummond11 Cooled Down Love and an Overheated Atmosphere: René Girardon Ecology and Apocalypticism in the Anthropocene - Petra Steinmair-Pösel12 Beyond Human Exceptionalism: Christology in theAnthropocene - Matthew Eaton13 American Evangelicalism, Apocalypticism, and theAnthropocene - Marisa RonanPart 5: Ethical Deliberations14 Human Ecology as a Key Discipline of Environmental Ethicsin the Anthropocene - Markus Vogt15 Protection of Threatened Species in the Anthropocene:A Theological-Ethical Perspective - Anders MelinPart 6: Sociopolitical Transformations16 Contesting the Good Life of Technological Modernityin the Anthropocene - Ian Barns17 The Anthropocene and the Future of Diplomacy: Religion,Ecology, and Transnational Relations in the Age of HumanResponsibility - David Joseph WellmanBibliography General Index