Responding to Climate Crisis

Hope at the Margins

AvCarol J. Dempsey, OP,Norah A. Martin

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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Beskrivning

Earth and all its communities of life are experiencing a climate crisis, a phrase broadly understood here as the disruption of the Earth’s systems. This disruption, caused by social, political, economic, cultural, and ecological turmoil, upheaval, and violence, negatively affects the atmosphere in which life exists. In the midst of such disruption, how can we have hope? And, if we can, where can we find it and keep it alive? This edited collection brings together the work of thirteen theologians, philosophers, and scientists from disparate parts of our shared Earth to continue the efforts of Thomas Berry in arguing that hope can be found even in the midst of global crises. Though each essay offers a different vision of hope, they agree with Berry’s vision of shifting to an Earth-centered world from a human-centered one. Through this radical shift, we see ourselves as not alone but rather woven within a network of living communities equally affected by devastating changes. By collaborating with other-than-human communities on this planet, the scholars herein reconceptualize hope, thereby challenging traditional ways of thinking about and solutions for today’s multi-layered issues. When those on the margins of life are seen, heard, respected, cherished, and listened to, then hope flourishes and all life recovers its vibrancy.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2026-04-30
Mått:152 x 232 x 20 mm
Vikt:500 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Dispatches from the New Diaspora
Antal sidor:248
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781978715578

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Carol J. Dempsey, OP, is Professor of Theology and Religious Studies (Biblical Studies) at the University of Portland.Norah A. Martin is Professor of Philosophy and Environmental Studies at the University of Portland.

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This book is path breaking with its skillful weaving of urgency and action in response to our growing environmental challenges. In drawing on Thomas Berry’s insights, it invites us to embrace the living Earth community in which we dwell. Its clarion call to shifting of worldviews and transformative engagement is keenly needed at present around the planet.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: Carol J. Dempsey, OP and Norah MartinChapter One: Exile and Return: Empathy, Hope, and the Awakening of a New Diaspora: Michael Andrews Chapter Two: Radical Hope: Civil Society Confronts Climate Justice in Small Island Developing States: Neil Oculi, Kieran Maynard, and Mark A. BoyerChapter Three: Destructive Hope? Apocalypse as Queer Eco-Spiritual Practice: Brandy DanielsChapter Four: Neo-liberal Mining in the Philippines: Destruction, Resistance, Re-Envisioning: Christina A. AstorgaChapter Five: Climate Hope through the Land: An Indigenous Decolonial Framework for Post-Apocalyptic Climate Hope: Brian BurkhartChapter Six: Rays of Hope: The Bible between Environmental and Indigenous Concerns in the Church of Norway: Tina Dykesteen NilsenChapter Seven: Dalit Earth: Listening to the Ecological Wisdom of the Broken People: Joshua SamuelChapter Eight: Ground of Being: Reading Psalm 37 with the Maasai: Beth E. Elness-HansonChapter Nine: African Traditional Notion of Vitality as a Pathway to Eco-intimacy: Mark Omorovie IkekeChapter Ten: A Community of Subjects is a Community of Conscious Beings: Non-Human Consciousness and a New Environmental Vision: Norah MartinChapter Eleven: Voices of the Wilderness: Ecospiritual and Ecotherapeutic Practices for Cultivating Intimacy with the More-Than-Human World: Rachel WheelerChapter Twelve: Shifting Paradigms to Embrace a Cosmic Consciousness: Carol J. Dempsey, OPEpilogue: Earth Democracy: The Democracy of All Being: Vandana Shiva